Light sensors placement

[Julian]

Hi guys,

My models have many partitioned rooms in order to have daylight values measured in as many rooms as I needed. When sensors are place by default, they are not always placed exactly in the middle of the room, and then I assume the daylight values from one model to another are not really comparable. That is why I need to place all sensors exatly in the centre of the rooms. I am just entering the right coordenates for the sensors but takes very long time due to the number of rooms and floors my models have. I wonder if there is a quicker way to set them in the middle. Do you know any easier way?? I have had a look at the user guides but I couldn't find anything regarding this.

Thank you in advance.

Julian

[PCully]

Hi,

There is one way you can modify these positions outwith the RadianceIES interface that you may find faster but you'll have to be careful while doing this.

- On the Sensor Settings tab hit Save Sensors
- save the *.sen file in your project Radiance folder
- find the .sen file and open with notepad (or any text editor)
- compare a few of the rows to understand the format the data is in and then you can start to modify this for each sensor (maybe excel would be a fast way to do it, not sure)
- when finished editing save it as any name .sen
- on Radiance click the Read Sensors button and choose your file -> all sensors will be updated

Phil

[Julian]

Thank you so much for your help!!