Hi,
I have been trying to construct a table of solar incidence radiation for different shading device. I naturally turned to scripting to construct this table.
The script reads as follows:
Find window
Loop over shading devices
- Create shading device
- Extract incidence radiation over the window
- Display result
EndLoop
Display result table
My problem is that the incidence radiation does not change when the shading device is changed. In short the part of the script that extract the incidence radiation is as follows:
cmd("calc.solar.total", 2)
for month = 0, 12 do
solarData[month] = 0
for hr = 0, 23 do
solarData[month] = solarData[month] + get("results.array", month, hr)
end
end
It looks that I needed to update the shading mask. So I added the following before doing "calc.solar.total":
cmd("masks.clear")
maskIndex = add("mask", objIndex)
if maskIndex == -1 then
getUserInput("Did not manage to create mask")
end
-- set("object.mask", objIndex, maskIndex)
if maskIndex ~= get("object.mask", objIndex) then
getUserInput("Did not update mask for window")
end
cmd("masks.update", maskIndex)
But I haven't had any success so far.
Does anyone has any idea what I am doing wrong?
Regards
Julien
Check the RADcomponents
Hi Julien,
Check the RADcomponents script in the thread here. You'll probably find what your looking for.
Thanks
Hi Oliver,
Thanks for your reply.
I actually found the big mistake in my script: the shading object was incorrectly created. The shading object was created as a collapsed object and then extended over the window to assess the effect of the extendt of the shading. If it is not created as a collapsed object, its shading effect is accounted for.
I also checked the thread. In the thread, the command mentionned to update the mask is as follows:
-- Create shading mask --
add("mask", selected_objects)
-- Calculation of radiantion values on selected object for single months
cmd("calc.shading.total")
I was slightly puzzled by the parameter to the add("mask" command. I believed it was supposed to be the index of the object, i.e. obj in the script. In my script, I actually use set("object.mask" to allocate the mask.
Regards
Julien