I've got a model from an architect, built in Rhino, that I need to get
into Radiance. Typically we do this via Ecotect, exporting 3ds files
from Rhino, importing into Ecotect, and using Ecotect to generate my rad
files. However, this model is just a mess once it's imported into
Ecotect - even the flat facades are a mess of triangles, and the reduce
coincident triangles/polygons command is all but worthless. The Rhino
model is actually fairly complex, it's a masterplan with 20 or so
towers, but even doing just one building is going to take me a day to
clean up. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Cramer
J. Cramer Silkworth
Transsolar Climate Engineering
Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in
buildings.
I've come across the same thing in the past and thought that it was due to the model being a set of NURBS surfaces that rhino is segmenting to turn into a DXF. I think there is a way to try and get rhino to clean some of this up but haven't found a fast process to do so.
Do you need to clean up the model? I would try a test render to find out what kind of processing time it takes to render and use this to evaluate if you need to clean up. In ecotect the edges are highlighted to help you indentify different objects. I've found in the past that these often don't show up in a radiance render and this can often be less time consuming than trying to process the surfaces.
Regards,
Meredith Davey
Associate Director
atelier ten
building service engineers + environmental designers
I've got a model from an architect, built in Rhino, that I need to get
into Radiance. Typically we do this via Ecotect, exporting 3ds files
from Rhino, importing into Ecotect, and using Ecotect to generate my rad
files. However, this model is just a mess once it's imported into
Ecotect - even the flat facades are a mess of triangles, and the reduce
coincident triangles/polygons command is all but worthless. The Rhino
model is actually fairly complex, it's a masterplan with 20 or so
towers, but even doing just one building is going to take me a day to
clean up. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
Cramer
J. Cramer Silkworth
Transsolar Climate Engineering
Technical consulting for energy efficiency and environmental quality in
buildings.
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