Revit - Solar Radiation Technology Preview - Part 1
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Revit – Solar Radiation Technology Preview – Part 1
Software : Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010 and Autodesk Revit MEP 2010
Description : This is the first video tutorial in a series exploring the integration of geometry creation and solar radiation analysis in a variety of platforms. The video utilizes the new Solar Radiation Technology Preview, available from Autodesk LABS. You must install Update 1 for Revit Architecture 2010 and Revit MEP 2010 in order to run the technology preview. This tutorial is based on a student project by Nash Hurley. In the first part we will show how masses created in the conceptual mass environment can be brought into a Revit project, where their location and orientation can be set. In the second part we will use the solar radiation preview to load weather data and set date and time ranges to analyze our geometry. We will then make changes to the date and time in order to understand the effects of changing these ranges on our analysis results. Finally, we will produce an image that will then be published to the project environment. If you use the tool, please give feedback.
Topics Covered:
- Creating a Conceptual Mass
- Placing a Conceptual Mass Into a Revit Project
- Updating Project Location and Orientation
Files
1. revitsolrad [.rvt file]
2. revitsolrad [.rfa file]
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Based on a work at designreform.net.
Nice video. I’m planning to use this tool for my first studio project, but I can’t find the WEA file from energyplus. They only give EPW for my specific site. Any way around this? Thanks.
Hi Jake,
The Solar Radiation preview works with .WEA or .EPW files (both options are available in the Set Weather Data… dialog). So you should be set. You can also use Ecotect’s Weather Tool to convert from .EPW to .WEA, but this shouldn’t be necessary.
Steve
Hi, you can use the Meteonorm program to get a aproximation of your specific site by triangulation with close by weather stations. And in Weather Tool you can transform the CSV file that Meteornorm will give you to a .WEA file. It´s really simple.
Hey! this technology is incredible. Nevertheless it seems that it’s not possible to download the “Solar radiation technology preview” from the link you have provided…
Is there any other place where I can find it?
Thanks!
Luismi
Hey, Same question as Luismi, would love to use this as a interesting part of a project, and to fool around with, but can’t find a current download. Any suggestions or help?
Shawn/Luismi… it looks like the solar radiation technology preview is now considered a labs graduate: http://labs.autodesk.com/graduates/ Aside from it no longer being available, I don’t know what that means.