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Angular land boundaries not working for flat plate receivers #39

Closed mjwagner2 closed 5 years ago

mjwagner2 commented 5 years ago

The heliostat field does not seem to respect the land boundaries. In this example the limits are (-60, 60 degrees). The receiver is planar and aimed down -50 degrees.

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Temporary workaround

The field limits appear only to be working for the cylindrical receiver option. As a temporary workaround, create a constraining polygon in addition to the radial bounds that cuts off the field at +/0 the desired deg. The settings on the Layout Setup page might look something like the following for the 60deg example:

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