Items tagged ‘energy-analysis’

• Posted by Yan Krymsky on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 2:59PM

  3dsMax to Rhino/Grasshopper to Ecotect and Back

  Many of us have struggled with incorporating analysis data from energy consultants or software like Ecotect and Energy Plus into the the early stages of design. This is largely due to the cumbersome process of moving models between design and analysis software, or worse, the necessity to completely rebuild a model to suit a particular type of analysis or tool. To complicate things further, the result of such efforts isn't easily incorporated back into the design process, because the data harvested is usually output in a static format such as a chart or two-dimensional graphic. A large part of ...

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