Wall with HB_Information.val (164.3 KB)
Wall with HB_Information.gh (22.9 KB)
I try to combine visualarq and LBT series plug-ins to analyze energy consumption while establishing BIM model(It may seem troublesome and silly, but I still want to try lol.Obviously, energy consumption model and BIM model do not need complex conversion in Revit, but honeybee’s model construction seems to be much more special.), but it seems quite difficult. If you have any ideas or feasible methods, please let me know and I will try. Thank you!
Last night, I used grasshopper to export some walls with honeybee energy information, which include thickness and others (such as thermal conductivity and thermal resistance), which may be the beginning.
Unfortunately, this Val file does not contain hatch information. For the “no mass” material, I gave it a very small thickness to prevent bugs.
GH files have also been uploaded, which is my idea of making these walls.
Hello @Zhen_Zixu,
You can use VisualARQ to create the BIM model but Honeybee will not read BIM information, so you will need to decunstruct it using the VisualARQ Grasshopper components. If you need to extract the geometry inside the BIM objects, you can do it using the VisualARQ Explode component, so that you can take that geometry to use it with Honeybee. This way, you can create your VisualARQ model and analyze energy parameters at the same time with Honeybee.
I have been checking it, it looks nice! As a workflow tip, you don’t need to create a “Create Object Parameter” component and a “Set Property Value” component for each parameter, you can use lists and use these components just once.
Here you have an example of what I mean:
parameters.gh (7.2 KB)
Attributes cannot be define from Grasshopper for now, but I’ll add your vote to this issue in our list so that we will keep you updated about it.
Which bugs are you having? Could you describe them and maybe send some screenshots or videos if it is necessary?