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Does anyone know if it's possible to export the a weather file in a format other than a .fwt file?
I need to get it out as ASCII text with CSV.
I am trying to compare results with a TRNSYS model to try to work out some anomalies and the weather file is the most obvious issue at the moment,
Any ...

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Can anyone tell me the trick to getting data on surfaces in Vista or VIsta pro? The results page says "no data to display". Is there a setting I need to check or is this data typically in the standard apache simulation?
Sorry if this question is answered in a manual somewhere. I have looked but ...

Hi Phil
I have had some success eventually.
I ended up modeling the trees as 2 circular planes intersecting at right angles. For the transparency I ended up putting holes in the planes so you would still get a similar diffuse lighting. As a test I modeled identical size trees without the cutouts as ...

Thanks for the replies.
Can you suggest an alternative means of simulating the difference between varied tree canopy density? I thought there would be a way to assign transmittance values to 2D shading planes but I have not had much success here.
I modeled a 2D surface with holes cut out to simulate ...

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I am attempting to test thermal loading reduction due to tree shade and need to compare the difference between a detailed tree with a simple sphere. I know it's probably rediculous but my file size is 54MB. Just opening the file takes about 30 minutes. I expect to leave it running for days or ...

Hi Georger
I don't think there is a way to see internal shading in anything other than radiance?
Sketchup would be a lot easier than ies when study internal shading. That would be my suggestion.
Regarding the glazing, I am waiting for someone to reply to a similar question about editting ...

just adding to the previous message...
I found a post on modelling trees but this is not the solution for me. I have collected tree data which includes three height, canopy size and transmittance. I have modelled the trees as 2 x 2D planes intersecting at right angles and hoped to just add a ...

Hi John
I am new to IES and am not an engineer so my experience may me of little use? BUt i recently modelled a central atrium in a 7 storey building attempting to do a similar thing. To simplify things I just looked at the ground floor and atrium in isolation and got some reasonable results. I had ...

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Does anyone here know how to give local shade objects an opacity?
I am doing a simulation on the effect of tree shade on thermal loading of buildings and need to edit the transmittance of my 'trees' to less than 0%.
I have treid modelling trees in sketchup as components and given them different ...