[Radiance-general] importing illuminance contour back to SketchUp?

[Ery Mailing-List]

Hello Thomas

I managed to import rtrace illuminance values back into Sketchup via
su2rad, see the picture:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6h2rfc1odxzh3xu/su2rad_import.png?dl=0

However, su2rad creates 3D contour (see the cones in the picture). Is there
a way to have a 2D (line) contour? I presume that should be easier than
triangulation process to create 3D contour.

Thanks!

Ery



On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Thomas Bleicher <tbleicher at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ery
>
> Iirc you load the values in Ecotect into the grid and not directly into
> the model. So Ecotect can assign the values sequentially to the grid
> points. In su2rad you don't have that association and need to provide the
> coordinates in the same file. You can use the Unix tool 'join' to combine
> the coordinates from the points file and the results. If you are not used
> to command line tools you can also use Excel and export the sheet as CSV
> file.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, June 26, 2014, Ery Mailing-List <ery.mailinglist at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Thomas. I will definitely try it. Ecotect I think reports only the
>> values, it saves it with the extension ".ok", but I will double check.
>> However, it will fall in the right location on the 3D model, so I think it
>> is checked against the grid information.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Thomas Bleicher <tbleicher at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Su2rad has that feature but it may be disabled in the official version.
>>> You just need to remove a few comments in the loader file to get it
>>> working. In which format does Ecotect report the values? Just values or
>>> coordinates and values?
>>>
>>> Ery Mailing-List <ery.mailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Folks
>>>>
>>>> I have this question for a long time and have asked it to a number of
>>>> people with a negative answer, and I can't remember if I have asked the
>>>> forum, but here it goes: is there a way that we can import the illuminance
>>>> contour back to SketchUp?
>>>>
>>>> We use SketchUp as the interface to Radiance, but the missing piece
>>>> that we missed from Ecotect is the ability to import back the illuminance
>>>> values on the grid back into the 3D model, so that the contour can be put
>>>> into the 3D context.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Ery
>>>>
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