Hello
I have tried to model an overhang made of glass. I have tried creating a new block both with a thickness and without, but i cannot put in a window at the floor. Do you have any suggestions how i can make the overhang? I am using it to reduce the amount of sun comming through during summer without reducing the light completely.
Kind Regards
Kasper Sørensen
Overhang made of glass
Re: Overhang made of glass
ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why they don't do this I'll never know.
For daylighting it's fine - draw a box zone, make all surfaces 100% holes bar the one you want to be glass and you are high as a hippy in a helicopter.
Thermal it's a whole lot worse.
1) adjust g-value of glass to account for it - C**P
2) do (thin) box zone again but have doors instead of holes and hope that the big glass part is more of an effect than the shading from the doors - double C**P. Need to make sure you make this a void so you don't start getting surface temp probs.
Better still... IES - give us glass shades!!!!! And semi-opaque canvas coverings!!!!!
I wonder if the shading out of date check could ignore active/inactive layers.... that way I could set up a room (glass shade ceiling with holes) that was active for SunCast but inactive for Apache. Ah wait... SunCast doesn't know about transmittance does it - only sunlit area. Damit.
Zap out!
Why they don't do this I'll never know.
For daylighting it's fine - draw a box zone, make all surfaces 100% holes bar the one you want to be glass and you are high as a hippy in a helicopter.
Thermal it's a whole lot worse.
1) adjust g-value of glass to account for it - C**P
2) do (thin) box zone again but have doors instead of holes and hope that the big glass part is more of an effect than the shading from the doors - double C**P. Need to make sure you make this a void so you don't start getting surface temp probs.
Better still... IES - give us glass shades!!!!! And semi-opaque canvas coverings!!!!!
I wonder if the shading out of date check could ignore active/inactive layers.... that way I could set up a room (glass shade ceiling with holes) that was active for SunCast but inactive for Apache. Ah wait... SunCast doesn't know about transmittance does it - only sunlit area. Damit.
Zap out!