[Radiance-general] Radiance-general Digest, Vol 132, Issue 12
Mostapha Sadeghipour
sadeghipour at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 10:18:41 PST 2015
Hi Reinier,
I don't think it is documented yet (or is it?). I had the same issue while
ago and Greg helped me to get it solved so that's why I knew.
You may also find Rob's implementation of 3Phase to OpenStudio helpful:
https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/f2c750dd1edf65b03a17d32d62a22efbe5b84276/openstudiocore/ruby/openstudio/radiance/MergeWindowGroups.rb
https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/f2c750dd1edf65b03a17d32d62a22efbe5b84276/openstudiocore/ruby/openstudio/radiance/DaylightSim-Simple.rb
Cheers,
Mostapha
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Reinier Zeldenrust <
reinier.zeldenrust at atelierten.com> wrote:
> 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
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> 1. Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing after rfluxmtx
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> 2. Re: Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing after rfluxmtx
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> Subject: [Radiance-general] Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing
> after rfluxmtx
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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>
> To: Radiance general discussion <radiance-general at radiance-online.org>
> 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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