Three-phase method troubles: NROWS missing after rfluxmtx

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

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Reinier Zeldenrust < [email protected]> 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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