Spider Viewer 2021

TheoA · September 16, 2021, 3:51am

Here is one simple solution:

The 3DM file type view now has a menu (Set Surface Type Opacity) with sliders so that you are able to control the opacity of of various surfaces. In the following example, I make all the shade surfaces ( color: 1,1,1 ) mostly transparent.

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_Click anywhere to erase the text. Click the three bars ☰ to display the full menu._

Example:

There will be better ways of doing this. There probably will be greater control over the opacity of surfaces in the original Honeybee JSON file, so exporting a 3DM file with only the results is likely to be better. When I do that with the current 3DM file, the two set of shades conflict with each other and cause jiggling.

Also, I am beginning to understand the results file. I think it will be possible to read results files and and update meshes on the fly before too long.

TK · September 16, 2021, 9:33am

Outstanding, great progress @TheoA. Yes, one of the reasons i use Wireframe for the building is due to the jiggling of surface overlays.

I see this information box when selecting surfaces. Is it possible to apply custom information to a element using your process?

Thanks again for making this work!

TheoA · September 17, 2021, 5:26pm

@TK

Nice questions!

Wireframe

I will add a wireframe display toggle - as in previous release of the Spider Viewer

Pop-Up Info

I will work on: right click on one of the squares in a multi-colored mesh to display its associated data in the results.txt file

Monitors & Sensors
It looks like I can get locations etc out of the Honeybee JSON files. I will start to visualize these as well

Thank you for your encouragement!

Theo

TheoA · September 17, 2021, 10:42pm

@TK

Screen capture from today’s DEV release (2021-09-17)

In the new Dashboard at bottom of screen, I toggled Edge display.
In the “Set Surface Type Opacity” menu item, I set the 1,1,1 (Shade) slider to 0.

This release should be the “stable” (hah hah hah ) release in a few hours.

TheoA · September 23, 2021, 12:09am

@TK

BTW, your link to advancedbuildings.net looks like it can do much to help me understand what visuals you are looking for. Thank you for this!

TheoA · September 23, 2021, 1:37am

@TK
Here we are:

In today’s release

The model that loads as the default is the one we will look at.

We also need a results file, so you can download this file:

https://www.ladybug.tools/3d-models/hbjson-sample-files/2021/tk/results_DF.txt

Open the “Honeybee JSON models” submenu

Click the “get sensor grids” button

Click the “Show all surfaces” icon to bring up the pop-up menu

Lower the opacity to nearly zero

Click on the “edges” button"

Now the sensor meshes should appear with random colors

(For fun I also increased the field of view in the home icon popup)

Click on the Choose file button and open up the results file you downloaded.

The meshes should now display the correct colors

TK · January 12, 2022, 8:54am

Hi @TheoA,

Sorry for late reply! Great progress

I have tested the new functions, but I am not able to load the new result to te model:

How do you match the mesh and results btw? Looks great!