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.
Yes, it does! The “courtyard building” case was actually the original impetus for us adding the method that merges the holes and boundary into a single list of vertices. It also became important for “punching” the window geometries out of the parent Faces when we send the geometry off to Radiance.
In any event, you should feel free to use any geometry with holes in the LBT plugin. LBT ensures that these geometries get to the simulation engines in a correct format that’s as elegant as possible.
Hi dear @chris ,
I’ve just installed the new LBT 1.3. but there is some changes in components like we don’t have HB zones. Do you think I can work with this version based on previous versions? I’m worried about not writing energy simulation algorithms correctly.
For example I don’t know how to define the type of this zone’s walls:
Hi @SimaKhayami94 this post may be able to answer some of your question
You have a couple different ways to go about addressing faces: there’s a good bit of automation in identifying types in HB Room From Solid, for construction assignment there is also a few different options. the attached grasshopper file contains what is in the attached photo
Hi dear Trevor,
Thank you sooooooo much. That was really helpful.
Would it be possible for me to ask another question?
I wanna attribute special window to a wall, and I don’t know what’s the problem here?
Although I do not know why we have to set this condition now, HB used to identify boundary conditions automatically right? @chris kindly let us know your thoughts
Hi everyone,
First of all thank you for your great helps, I really appreciate it.
I wrote the hole algorithm and at the end when I want to run energy analysis, I face with this error (I just want to get energy analysis not shadow analysis):
Although I’ve made you really exhausted with my infinite questions, I literally don’t know what to do anymore. :(((
My file also is here: analysis model.gh (127.4 KB)
Honeybee will still assign Ground and Outdoor boundary conditions based on the geometry’s relationship to the Rhino model origin (anything at or below the origin gets a ground boundary condition)
Your Grasshopper file is running fine on my end, @SimaKhayami94