IES-VE User Forum

Hi Mark,

Wind Direction (East of North) is simply the direction from which the wind is blowing, measured clockwise from true north.

Thanks,
Steven

Hi Mansour,

This is a known issue that occurs the first time you run Radiance after installing or reinstalling the VE. The VE is trying to check the registry entry before it has been set. It sets it as soon as you click OK on the second error message box. You will not see the message again after ...

Hi Lily,

You need to make sure SketchUp has the correct path to the VE. To set this, load SketchUp and Go to Tools > IES > Set IES VE Location. This will open a dialog where you need to browse to the location of ve.exe. On a Windows machine this is normally the C:\Programs Files (x86)\IES\VE 64 ...

Hi Kasper,

Sorry about all the spam, it has gotten a bit out of hand lately! We will have someone checking the forum everyday and removing any we come across.

Your idea about a "Report as spam" button is a really good idea and something we should look at implementing. I'll get on to the web dev ...

Hi Santiago,

The problem with the Suncast error is the tolerance check between SunCast and Apache is slightly different and it sees the model as having changed (which it hasn’t).

The 6.3 release has the bypass option which lets you run anyway so if you are sure the model hasn’t changed then ...

Hi Paul,

Just a couple on notes on network licenses.

I would like to know how the network license operates, do I have to have the network pin installed and then the keyspath.txt file altered to the network location, or do I need the local pin installed which will then get overwritten by the ...