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:bee: Honeybee is a free and open source plugin to connect Grasshopper3D to EnergyPlus, Radiance, Daysim and OpenStudio for building energy and daylighting simulation
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Add blind between the panes to Honeybee? #234

Open mostaphaRoudsari opened 9 years ago

mostaphaRoudsari commented 9 years ago

@chriswmackey check this discussion: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ladybug/forum/topics/midpane-blind-in-honeybee-grasshopper

Is there any reason not to support blind between the panes?

chriswmackey commented 9 years ago

I have gotten this to work with just a text string and I will make an official component to write this string soon. creating window with blinds between panes

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ladybug/forum/topics/midpane-blind-in-honeybee-grasshopper?commentId=2985220%3AComment%3A1182998&groupId=2985220%3AGroup%3A658987

The issue of how to implement dynamic shading in this case is really complicated because it requires us to include a Shading Control object in the IDF file. Please post here if you think that dynamic shading in this case is important or if it is ok to just leave it at static blinds between glass for now.

-Chris

mostaphaRoudsari commented 9 years ago

Hi Chris, Thanks. As I added in Grasshopper group, I'm concerned on how we are going to add this functionality. To me it is an advanced feature (which is also pretty useful) but then we are adding it to the EnergyPlus component which won't support HVAC systems, etc. I wonder if we should push these sort of features toward OpenStudio? In any case it is not a trivial implementation-