Comparing two different skin in terms of energy efficiency

[chris]

I think it’s possible that you are just experiencing a visualization issue, @AbrahamYezioro and the simulation results are fine. Does the IDF file only contain 4 vertices for the shade? If not, then Honeybee is just feeding the list of vertices to EnergyPlus as a single list that winds inward to cut out the holes, which is a valid way to pass vertices to Radiance and I’m pretty sure is also a valid way to pass them to EnergyPlus (at a minimum, it should be fine for the PixelCounting solar distribution). However, Rhino doesn’t display lists of vertices like this correctly. Are the solar gain results very different between the meshed case and the trimmed surface?

More infirmation can be found here:

** Fatal ** Errors occurred on processing input file. Preceding condition(s) cause termination

Geometries with holes are fully-supported in the new LBT 1.3.0 plugin. The new LBT Honeybee plugin automatically handles the translation of the hole/boundary vertices into a single list of vertices that winds inward to cut out the holes from the shape. So just use the LBT 1.3 plugin for your energy modeling, @SimaKhayami94 , and you won’t experience this issue.