How to save SketchUp model as IES component?

[clarazennic]

Dear All,

I would like to find out the methodology on how to create a component through sketchup. eg.A room with a custom blind has been drawn in SketchUp. I've managed to convert/launch VE through IES plug-in. The blind that i've created appeared as shading in IES. Can the property of the blind be edited?

Any other method?

[PCully]

Hi,

I'm not quite sure what else you hope to achieve with the blind - surely it would be a shade in the VE model to obstruct the light?

If you want to make it a component in VE, just delete the room then export the remaining (blind) geometry as a GEM file, you can then import this to the Component Modeller and and save the blind as a Component.

Phil

[clarazennic]

Thanks Phi,

I've managed to save the blinds as a component.

The reasons of making it as component so i could assign material on the blind as per actual properties.