[Radiance-general] Radiance-general Digest, Vol 132, Issue 12

Reinier Zeldenrust reinier.zeldenrust at atelierten.com
Mon Feb 23 09:59:29 PST 2015


Hi Mostapha, 

Thank you - helpful! Where is this behaviour documented? I could not find it in the rfluxmtx or rcontrib manpages.

Best,

Reinier Zeldenrust
Environmental Designer
Atelier Ten
Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers

CIBSE Building Services Consultancy of the Year 2011
UK-GBC Sustainability Consultant of the Year 2009



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Today's Topics:

   1. Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing after	rfluxmtx
      (Reinier Zeldenrust)
   2. Re: Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing after rfluxmtx
      (Mostapha Sadeghipour)


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Subject: [Radiance-general] Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing
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Hi all, 

I am following the latest approach to the three-phase method as described in Andy McNeil's 2014 Radiance Workshop Presentation, but when I generate view matrices my output is botched. 
With this command (I realise this is low accuracy, but for the moment I'm mainly testing workflow) :
	rfluxmtx -ab 4 -ad 5000 < ChEast.pts - windows_pts/window_00.rad material.rad ChEast.rad > viewpts_00.mtx the header in the viewmatrix is as follows:
	#?RADIANCE
	oconv -f material.rad ChEast.rad windows_pts/window_01.rad
	rcontrib -fo+ -ab 4 -ad 5000 -faa -c 1 -f klems_full.cal -bn Nkbins -b kbin(0.525501,0.0136168,-0.850684,0,0,1) -m M-nor
	SOFTWARE= RADIANCE 4.3a lastmod  by nrel_nt
	gugliel on rgugliel-W7-VM
	CAPDATE= 2015:02:19 12:21:14
	GMT= 2015:02:19 12:21:14
	NCOMP=3
	NCOLS=145
	FORMAT=ascii

When I try to do any matrix multiplication to get the three-phase result, I get problems with RMTXOP or dctimestep, which complain they can't load the matrix. If I add the line NROWS=81 (number of sensor points) manually in the header, I do get results. But I'm trying to run the simulation for a lot of windows so adding this line each time manually or with a script is a bit painful. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

Additionally, when I try to run dctimestep in annual mode, using the following command:
	dctimestep -n 8760 viewpts_00.mtx grate.xml daylight_00.mtx annual.smx > test.dat I get:
	'fatal - unexpected EOF reading annual.smx' 
even though my annual.smx has 146 rows (for all 146 Tregenza daylight patches) and 8760 columns. 

Any idea what is going wrong here?

Many thanks,
Reinier




Reinier Zeldenrust
Environmental Designer
Atelier Ten
Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers




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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:48:26 -0500
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour <sadeghipour at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Radiance-general] Three-phase method troubles: NROWS
	missing after rfluxmtx
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Hi Reinier,

You need to use the -y option to specify the number of rows in your rfluxmtx run so you don't need to do it manually.

Cheers,
Mostapha

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Reinier Zeldenrust < reinier.zeldenrust at atelierten.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am following the latest approach to the three-phase method as 
> described in Andy McNeil's 2014 Radiance Workshop Presentation, but 
> when I generate view matrices my output is botched.
> With this command (I realise this is low accuracy, but for the moment 
> I'm mainly testing workflow) :
>         rfluxmtx -ab 4 -ad 5000 < ChEast.pts - 
> windows_pts/window_00.rad material.rad ChEast.rad > viewpts_00.mtx the 
> header in the viewmatrix is as follows:
>         #?RADIANCE
>         oconv -f material.rad ChEast.rad windows_pts/window_01.rad
>         rcontrib -fo+ -ab 4 -ad 5000 -faa -c 1 -f klems_full.cal -bn 
> Nkbins -b kbin(0.525501,0.0136168,-0.850684,0,0,1) -m M-nor
>         SOFTWARE= RADIANCE 4.3a lastmod  by nrel_nt
>         gugliel on rgugliel-W7-VM
>         CAPDATE= 2015:02:19 12:21:14
>         GMT= 2015:02:19 12:21:14
>         NCOMP=3
>         NCOLS=145
>         FORMAT=ascii
>
> When I try to do any matrix multiplication to get the three-phase 
> result, I get problems with RMTXOP or dctimestep, which complain they 
> can't load the matrix. If I add the line NROWS=81 (number of sensor 
> points) manually in the header, I do get results. But I'm trying to 
> run the simulation for a lot of windows so adding this line each time 
> manually or with a script is a bit painful. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>
> Additionally, when I try to run dctimestep in annual mode, using the 
> following command:
>         dctimestep -n 8760 viewpts_00.mtx grate.xml daylight_00.mtx 
> annual.smx > test.dat I get:
>         'fatal - unexpected EOF reading annual.smx'
> even though my annual.smx has 146 rows (for all 146 Tregenza daylight
> patches) and 8760 columns.
>
> Any idea what is going wrong here?
>
> Many thanks,
> Reinier
>
>
>
>
> Reinier Zeldenrust
> Environmental Designer
> Atelier Ten
> Environmental Design Consultants + Building Services Engineers
>
>
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