Hi All, I know this is not strictly related to Ladybug tools, but read on to see how it relates.
I am writing a grasshopper plugin for SimScale (CFD) mainly for wind microclimate studies. I want it to be as interoperable with Ladybug tools as possible, allowing further advanced workflows, such as essential outdoor thermal comfort. I am curious if there is much interest in indoor CFD studies also? Maybe if this piques anyone’s interest, you could let me know your thoughts and if this could be helpful to you (and what you envision using it for).
For full disclosure, SimScale, where I work, has community and academic plans but is predominantly a paid cloud simulation tool just to set expectations.
Thanks for your interest, I have been hard at work this quarter on it, honestly a bit harder than anticipated, but I have something that works for external stuff, (wind microclimate) and imports results into Grasshopper directly from SimScale in a ladybug-friendly format. Right now we are internally testing and documenting to put it out in mid-January after my leave. The plugin mainly concentrates on pulling, formatting and processing SimScale results for now, so there is no simulation setup stuff, that still needs to be done natively in SimScale for now.
Is this what you are interested in or is it a different use case?
Thank you, Darren, for your prompt reply.
For now, it’s useful to have the CFD results aligned with a sensor grid provided by Ladybug Tools and integrable into an overall workflow. Will this be feasible in mid-January? Having all the settings integrated into Grasshopper would obviously be an excellent outcome. Looking forward to seeing this development.
Hi Marcello, right now, we provide the sensor grid in a way. So we download the results and return a mesh and data points, and then you feed the points from the mesh to be calculated to ladybug outdoor comfort. I could also do it the other way to be fair, but is not what will be in the initial mid-jan release. This way, you kind of need the wind results from SimScale to be the first step. This is also how our previous implementation via Python worked, just in a more clunky way.
Thank you very much! Our customers will get communicated via our customer-success team, so if you are in that group you will hear from your customer success manager. If you are not in that group, I will also likely post something here, with the download links for those who are curious to see it. Also, very keen for this to be influenced and community developed so at that point if you want to be involved in that side of things we can defo jump in a quick call then and talk about it.
Thanks, Marcello, looking forward to chatting in the new year!