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iat-cener / tonatiuh

A Monte Carlo ray tracer for the optical simulation of solar concentrating systems
http://iat-cener.github.io/tonatiuh/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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CAD surface unable to analysis #105

Open ChileNeverDie opened 5 years ago

ChileNeverDie commented 5 years ago

When I created some .stl model to import into Tonatiuh, I has the same problem like this...Tonatiuh just cannot recognize the CAD file as a surface node thus I can not do flux analysis on that...https://github.com/iat-cener/tonatiuh/issues/80 If anyone have the idea about how can we do that, please kindly help me, thx so much (Is it possible that I use the top view area to calculate the theoratical energy gained by the surface?)

ChileNeverDie commented 5 years ago

and same with this one... https://github.com/iat-cener/tonatiuh/issues/94

smathimech commented 3 years ago

When I created some .stl model to import into Tonatiuh, I has the same problem like this...Tonatiuh just cannot recognize the CAD file as a surface node thus I can not do flux analysis on that...#80 If anyone has the idea about how can we do that, please kindly help me, thx so much (Is it possible that I use the top view area to calculate the theoretical energy gained by the surface?)

Hi, #ChileNeverDie even I'm facing the same issue. did you found that answer. please tell me the process.

amutuberria commented 3 years ago

Dear user, Unfortunately, as mentioned in the wiki of the utility https://github.com/iat-cener/tonatiuh/wiki/Flux-Distribution-Tool, this utility only is valid for surfaces defined with the shapes cylinder, flat disk and flat rectangle. For this reason, if you need to create a flux map of other type of shapes you need to export the photons information and create a map with the information exported using an external tool.

Regards