Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos

Hi all,

i´am using radiance package installed via Diva for rhino 1.9 (i guess) in
windows7 64 professional

I want to make some simple calculations like those i´ll describe via Dos
command line

1- set the working directory where all my files are (obj, rad, oct, ies,
dat, pts)
2- obj2rad works fine
3- ies2rad also fine
4- oconv also

but a simplified rtrace calculation like this

5- rtrace filename.oct<filename.pts>filename.dat

gives me as result a file with just the header but no irradiance values for
the points in filename.pts

anyone knows what i´m doing wrong.

It´s because i´m not using cygwin, i mean, is the problem with my radiance
for window distribution? it woldn´t be the case as long as Diva is using
rtrace for its calculations without problems. At least it use to...

any hint or advice would be much apreciated

thanks
aitor

solved,

was my bad, pts file was incorrect (comma separated values) : S

it takes me 4 days to catch this silly problem!

cheers
aitor leceta

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: leceta <[email protected]>
Date: 2013/2/27
Subject: Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos
To: [email protected]

Hi all,

i´am using radiance package installed via Diva for rhino 1.9 (i guess) in
windows7 64 professional

I want to make some simple calculations like those i´ll describe via Dos
command line

1- set the working directory where all my files are (obj, rad, oct, ies,
dat, pts)
2- obj2rad works fine
3- ies2rad also fine
4- oconv also

but a simplified rtrace calculation like this

5- rtrace filename.oct<filename.pts>filename.dat

gives me as result a file with just the header but no irradiance values for
the points in filename.pts

anyone knows what i´m doing wrong.

It´s because i´m not using cygwin, i mean, is the problem with my radiance
for window distribution? it woldn´t be the case as long as Diva is using
rtrace for its calculations without problems. At least it use to...

any hint or advice would be much apreciated

thanks
aitor

I wonder why rtrace´s stderr was not giving me any information.

is this normal?

···

2013/2/27 leceta <[email protected]>

solved,

was my bad, pts file was incorrect (comma separated values) : S

it takes me 4 days to catch this silly problem!

cheers
aitor leceta

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: leceta <[email protected]>
Date: 2013/2/27
Subject: Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos
To: [email protected]

Hi all,

i´am using radiance package installed via Diva for rhino 1.9 (i guess) in
windows7 64 professional

I want to make some simple calculations like those i´ll describe via Dos
command line

1- set the working directory where all my files are (obj, rad, oct, ies,
dat, pts)
2- obj2rad works fine
3- ies2rad also fine
4- oconv also

but a simplified rtrace calculation like this

5- rtrace filename.oct<filename.pts>filename.dat

gives me as result a file with just the header but no irradiance values
for the points in filename.pts

anyone knows what i´m doing wrong.

It´s because i´m not using cygwin, i mean, is the problem with my radiance
for window distribution? it woldn´t be the case as long as Diva is using
rtrace for its calculations without problems. At least it use to...

any hint or advice would be much apreciated

thanks
aitor

Hi Aitor,

There probably should be a special message when the input doesn't match what's expected in rtrace. No one has really complained about it before, though I'm sure it's not the first time it has come up.

-Greg

···

From: leceta <[email protected]>
Date: February 27, 2013 9:56:35 AM PST

I wonder why rtrace´s stderr was not giving me any information.

is this normal?

2013/2/27 leceta <[email protected]>
solved,

was my bad, pts file was incorrect (comma separated values) : S

it takes me 4 days to catch this silly problem!

cheers
aitor leceta

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: leceta <[email protected]>
Date: 2013/2/27
Subject: Problem with rtrace in Windows/Dos
To: [email protected]

Hi all,

i´am using radiance package installed via Diva for rhino 1.9 (i guess) in windows7 64 professional

I want to make some simple calculations like those i´ll describe via Dos command line

1- set the working directory where all my files are (obj, rad, oct, ies, dat, pts)
2- obj2rad works fine
3- ies2rad also fine
4- oconv also

but a simplified rtrace calculation like this

5- rtrace filename.oct<filename.pts>filename.dat

gives me as result a file with just the header but no irradiance values for the points in filename.pts

anyone knows what i´m doing wrong.

It´s because i´m not using cygwin, i mean, is the problem with my radiance for window distribution? it woldn´t be the case as long as Diva is using rtrace for its calculations without problems. At least it use to...

any hint or advice would be much apreciated

thanks
aitor

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