Hi guys,
I want to extend the example honeybee script to measure iluminance in a rectangular room by creating a room that is L-shaped (or any other shape created from a polyline). I was thinking of modifying the Room class to accept arguments like this:
Any thoughts on this? Or if anyone knows if such a script is already written?
What might be the problems to modify the class in this manner? I think that the walls of the room are currently accessible using “front”, “left”, etc strings. Would it make sense if they are only enumerated instead?
Hi!
There are a couple of options I see here. I think you could indeed modify the class and make a PR to the main repository. If you do so be sure to run the tests and fix any that might fail. We use pytest so you should be able to run python -m pytest
and see if anything breaks
If you are only looking to do daylight simulations then I think you can get away just modelling surfaces and not a room. If you do this you could play with the different surface objects and manipulate them through code or generate geometry JSON files and then import them as surfaces using the from_dict
methods.
How much experience do you have with python at this point? This will help me gauge which route might be more useful for your use case
I’m not at my computer right now but if this all seems super complex/fuzzy I can try to write up an example for you. I’d strongly encourage checking out the API docs first however so you get a feel for what can be done: https://www.ladybug.tools/apidoc/honeybee/