LadyBug. Using daylight results to find optimal spaces for solar panels

[furtonb]

Hi,

Wouldn’t knowing the incident radiation on the surfaces be better?

To achieve this, you can use the LB Incident Radiation component, if you are using LBT 1.1. That way you can get an overview of the incoming solar radiation in kWh/m2, not just the hours.

This thread could be helpful:

Incident Radiation using Mesh Geometry (Error)

Hey All, I am doing simple radiation analysis with the LB Incident Radiation component (1.1.0). The component works fine when I use BREP input geometry but shows 0 incident radiation when I use mesh input geometry. [image] [image] Also tried manually offsetting the mesh, but the results for that don’t look right: [image] Using the same mesh input geometry works fine with the legacy version: [image] Looking through the code inside the LB Incident Radiation component, my hunch is that …

For the legacy plugins I think it is the Ladybug_Radiation_Analysis that would be helpful.

https://mostapharoudsari.gitbooks.io/ladybug-primer/content/text/components/Radiation_Analysis.html

To cull the mesh, you need to create a pattern with a conditional statement with GH componenets, alternatively you can try the Mesh_Threshold_Selector.

https://mostapharoudsari.gitbooks.io/ladybug-primer/content/text/components/Mesh_Threshold_Selector.html