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radiance-openstudio
1

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features. I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

2

Hi Silvia,

You and everyone else are new to this list! =)

My immediate questions for you are, what versions of OpenStudio and, more importantly, Windows are you running?

- Rob

···

________________________________________
From: CAMMARANO SILVIA [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features. I
found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting and
electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries
downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb
with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe
appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns
up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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3

Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but
meanwhile do you want to send the error massage as well? Are you using
Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

···

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the
new Radiance features. I found the possibility to run a whole-building
energy performance according to the daylighting and electric lighting
control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed
the Radiance binaries downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb
and the DaylightSim.rb with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a
microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation
begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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4

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

···

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour < [email protected]> wrote:

Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but
meanwhile do you want to send the error massage as well? Are you using
Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]>wrote:

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the
new Radiance features. I found the possibility to run a whole-building
energy performance according to the daylighting and electric lighting
control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed
the Radiance binaries downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb
and the DaylightSim.rb with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a
microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation
begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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5

Apparently, right about the same time as you sent yours! =8-)

/rpg

···

________________________________________
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of Radiance with OpenStudio
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but meanwhile do you want to send the error massage as well? Are you using Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features. I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410<tel:%2B39.011.0904410>
fax: +39.011.09044499<tel:%2B39.011.09044499>
mobile: +39.3470322449<tel:%2B39.3470322449>
e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

web site: www.polito.it/tebe<http://www.polito.it/tebe>

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6

Thank you very much for your quich responses!

The windows error appears while the calculation with --dcts --x options is running and it says "Gendaylit.exe has stopped working. Windows is going to look for a problem solution".

I´m using OpenStudio 0.8.1 and Windows 7 Professional.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

Apparently, right about the same time as you sent yours! =8-)

/rpg
________________________________________
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of Radiance with OpenStudio
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but meanwhile do you want to send the error massage as well? Are you using Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features. I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410<tel:%2B39.011.0904410>
fax: +39.011.09044499<tel:%2B39.011.09044499>
mobile: +39.3470322449<tel:%2B39.3470322449>
e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

web site: www.polito.it/tebe<http://www.polito.it/tebe>

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

···

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:37:23 -0600 "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >wrote:

7

Hi Silvia,

You should definitely update to the latest version of OpenStudio (0.8.3), which fixed a couple of Windows-related issues. Version 0.8.4 is due out any day now, which has even more improvements, but 0.8.3 should be useable for you today.

- Rob

···

________________________________________
From: CAMMARANO SILVIA [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Thank you very much for your quich responses!

The windows error appears while the calculation with --dcts --x options is running and it says
"Gendaylit.exe has stopped working. Windows is going to look for a problem solution".

I´m using OpenStudio 0.8.1 and Windows 7 Professional.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:37:23 -0600 "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

Apparently, right about the same time as you sent yours! =8-)

/rpg
________________________________________
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of Radiance with OpenStudio
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour ><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but meanwhile do you want to send
the error massage as well? Are you using Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >wrote:
Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features.
I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting
and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries
downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb
with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with
gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this
error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410<tel:%2B39.011.0904410>
fax: +39.011.09044499<tel:%2B39.011.09044499>
mobile: +39.3470322449<tel:%2B39.3470322449>
e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

web site: www.polito.it/tebe<http://www.polito.it/tebe>

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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Thank you Robert. I´ve installed the latest version of OpenStudio (0.8.3) and the DaylightSim Ruby script seems working well. The simulation with --dcts option ends without the prevoius Windows "Gendaylit error" but when I open the annual daylight illuminance profile (.ill) to check simulation results there are only the direct normal illuminance and the diffuse horizontal illuminance values. No results about daylight sensor illuminance and point illuminance.
Do you think could be a problem with the illuminance map modeled in SketchUp or again with Gendaylit?
Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

Hi Silvia,

You should definitely update to the latest version of OpenStudio (0.8.3), which fixed a couple of Windows-related issues. Version 0.8.4 is due out any day now, which has even more improvements, but 0.8.3 should be useable for you today.

- Rob
________________________________________
From: CAMMARANO SILVIA [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Thank you very much for your quich responses!

The windows error appears while the calculation with --dcts --x options is running and it says
"Gendaylit.exe has stopped working. Windows is going to look for a problem solution".

I´m using OpenStudio 0.8.1 and Windows 7 Professional.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

Apparently, right about the same time as you sent yours! =8-)

/rpg
________________________________________
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of Radiance with OpenStudio
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but meanwhile do you want to send
the error massage as well? Are you using Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with the new Radiance features.
I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance according to the daylighting
and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only installed the Radiance binaries
downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb
with --dc option. Next, running –dcts option, a microsoft error message dealing with
gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video) but for each new day this
error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410<tel:%2B39.011.0904410>
fax: +39.011.09044499<tel:%2B39.011.09044499>
mobile: +39.3470322449<tel:%2B39.3470322449>
e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

web site: www.polito.it/tebe<http://www.polito.it/tebe>

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

···

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:53:31 -0600 "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:37:23 -0600 > "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour >><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >>wrote:

9

Hmmm, odd. Can you send me your model?

Rob Guglielmetti
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Commercial Buildings Research Group
15013 Denver West Parkway MS:RSF202
Golden, CO 80401
303.275.4319
[email protected]

···

On 8/28/12 8:01 AM, "CAMMARANO SILVIA" <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you Robert. I´ve installed the latest version of OpenStudio (0.8.3)
and the DaylightSim Ruby
script seems working well. The simulation with --dcts option ends without
the prevoius Windows
"Gendaylit error" but when I open the annual daylight illuminance profile
(.ill) to check
simulation results there are only the direct normal illuminance and the
diffuse horizontal
illuminance values. No results about daylight sensor illuminance and
point illuminance.
Do you think could be a problem with the illuminance map modeled in
SketchUp or again with
Gendaylit?
Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:53:31 -0600 > "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Silvia,

You should definitely update to the latest version of OpenStudio
(0.8.3), which fixed a couple
of Windows-related issues. Version 0.8.4 is due out any day now, which
has even more
improvements, but 0.8.3 should be useable for you today.

- Rob
________________________________________
From: CAMMARANO SILVIA [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Thank you very much for your quich responses!

The windows error appears while the calculation with --dcts --x options
is running and it says
"Gendaylit.exe has stopped working. Windows is going to look for a
problem solution".

I´m using OpenStudio 0.8.1 and Windows 7 Professional.

Looking forward to hear from you!

Silvia

On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:37:23 -0600 >> "Guglielmetti, Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

Apparently, right about the same time as you sent yours! =8-)

/rpg
________________________________________
From: Mostapha Sadeghipour [[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 10:35 AM
To: Discussion of Radiance with OpenStudio
Subject: Re: [Radiance-openstudio] discussion

Wait! When did you send that email Rob?! :slight_smile: -Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Mostapha Sadeghipour >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Silvia,

Interesting! I'm sure Rob will get back to you soon about this but
meanwhile do you want to send
the error massage as well? Are you using Windows 7?

Regards,
Mostapha

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, CAMMARANO SILVIA >>><[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >>>wrote:
Hi all,
I´m new to this forum but I started using Open Studio integrated with
the new Radiance features.
I found the possibility to run a whole-building energy performance
according to the daylighting
and electric lighting control response based on Radiance-calculated
daylight distributions very
interesting.

I´m not so confident with the Radiance functionality, I´ve only
installed the Radiance binaries
downloaded from the NREL OpenStudio website.
I closely followed the tutorial and I was able to run the
ModelToRad.rb and the DaylightSim.rb
with --dc option. Next, running ­dcts option, a microsoft error message
dealing with
gendaylit.exe appears. The calculation begins (just like in your video)
but for each new day this
error turns up.

I will be very grateful for any kind of advice!

Silvia

arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410<tel:%2B39.011.0904410>
fax: +39.011.09044499<tel:%2B39.011.09044499>
mobile: +39.3470322449<tel:%2B39.3470322449>
e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

web site: www.polito.it/tebe<http://www.polito.it/tebe>

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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arch. Silvia Cammarano
PhD student in "Energetics"
Energy Department

Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24
10129 Torino, Italy

phone: +39.011.0904410
fax: +39.011.09044499
mobile: +39.3470322449
e-mail: [email protected]

web site: www.polito.it/tebe

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