Hi all,
I face the following error when running honeybee-radiance dc scoeff scene.oct model\grid\Grid_8a07902b.pts skydome.rad sky.mtx CLI command in my model directory (attached .zip file):
oconv: fatal - (scene.oct): not an octree
rcontrib: fatal - (!oconv -f -i “scene.oct” ./skydome.rad): not an octree
: cannot load matrix
The octree is created by honeybee-radiance octree from-folder Examples\640_test\model > scene.oct command, which is the output folder from the command honeybee-radiance translate model-to-rad-folder Examples\640_test.hbjson.
Try to run: honeybee-radiance octree from-folder Examples\640_test\model --output scene.oct
The CLI commands in honeybee-radiance usually have an option, --output or -o, that will let you save the output, unlike the usual Radiance way of using ... > output.txt. In case you don’t know, there is a --help option to all the CLI commands that will show the arguments and options, e.g., honeybee-radiance octree from-folder --help.
I wonder, however, if the file Radiance-related file extensions are listed somewhere? for example, I want to create a daylight coefficient matrix with honeybee-radiance dc but I do not know what to put as the output file extension.
any comments on that?
There are no rules to this. You can put whatever file extension you want so it’s more a question of styling and telling files apart more easily. For a daylight coefficient matrix I would go for .mtx or .dc.
