Importing NREL BSDF materials through HB+ error: "Failed to find AngleBasisName in first 100 lines"

mostapha · August 5, 2018, 1:36am

Hi @CedricT, Thank you for reporting this. There was a 100 lines maximum line count to find AngleBasisName in xml files. Turns out all NREL xml files include geometry data and so AngleBasisName is somewhere down in there:

github.com

ladybug-tools/honeybee-resources/blob/master/daylight/bsdf/cl_Tn0.01_blinds.xml#L742


	p 1.4721252956e-18 0.032374963894 -0.0265816305603
f v248 v249 v250 v251
# End conversion from: /tmp/genBSDF._CSrIT/device.rad
o
# End of data converted from RADIANCE scene input
xf
</MGFblock>
	</Geometry>
	<DataDefinition>
		<IncidentDataStructure>Columns</IncidentDataStructure>
		<AngleBasis>
			<AngleBasisName>LBNL/Klems Full</AngleBasisName>
			<AngleBasisBlock>
			<Theta>0</Theta>
			<nPhis>1</nPhis>
			<ThetaBounds>
				<LowerTheta>0</LowerTheta>
				<UpperTheta>5</UpperTheta>
			</ThetaBounds>
			</AngleBasisBlock>
			<AngleBasisBlock>

This change should fix it: