rhino2rad - Rhinoceros to Radiance

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I had a day off, and I decided to try to make another Radiance front
end / exporter, this time with Rhino. Rhino is very popular with
architects, and is the second result in a Yahoo search for NURBS
(third in Google).

It is written in RhinoScript and exports any file, by layer,
containing surfaces capable of being opened in Rhino as Radiance
geometry. The file should be saved by Rhino first.

This is early, early alpha, by the way. I'm looking for feedback and
app utility. Many more features will follow.

Link: http://auror.us/radiance/rhino2rad.php

--Dave

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Hello Dave,

We tried out your 'rhino2rad' script...

Did you make it work? It does not really work on our side.

Both a folder and a file have been created.
But the folder is empty and the file just has a short header with three lines:
#rhino2rad; ;#Materials:; ;Geometry:

Is there something wrong with our system or do we have a wrong rhino version (engl. 4.0 evaluation)?

Thank you for a short answer...

Arne

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Dear Dave,

I second Arne's request. I am very interested in a working export form
Rhino to Radiance but we did not get your script to work either.

Christoph

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Subject: [Radiance-general] rhino2rad - Rhinoceros to Radiance

Hello Dave,

We tried out your 'rhino2rad' script...

Did you make it work? It does not really work on our side.

Both a folder and a file have been created.
But the folder is empty and the file just has a short header with three
lines:
#rhino2rad; ;#Materials:; ;Geometry:

Is there something wrong with our system or do we have a wrong rhino
version (engl. 4.0 evaluation)?

Thank you for a short answer...

Arne

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Arne and Christoph,

I didn't expect something I pretty much threw together to get at all
popular, rather a good-enough tool when the circumstances came about.

I'll take a more careful eye to it this weekend, especially with respect to
reliability.

Thank you for the feedback, I do appreciate it. Always feel free to contact
me off-list about your issues with it.

--Dave