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Dynamo <> Autodesk Green Building Studio interoperability
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Non-geometric changes do not effect analysis results in Revit 2014, 2015 #100

Open bhowes-tt opened 9 years ago

bhowes-tt commented 9 years ago

I did some testing today on top of Revit 2015 --- Conceptual constructions, operating schedules, hvac system types, condition types, etc DO NOT effect the analysis results if multiple analyses (base runs) are run within the same project - the default GBS project settings overrule any changes made in Dynamo / Revit.

This jives with what Lilli Smith told us back in 2014 when we were first developing the package - this is a limitation of the 2014 and 2015 Revit APIs; everything worked in Vasari Beta 3, and everything should work in Revit 2016.

I need to verify that this in fact does work in Revit 2016.

Also, by the way: I verified that geometric changes (% glazing for example) DO effect the anaysis results.

mostaphaRoudsari commented 9 years ago

@bhowes-tt very interesting! I'm not sure if this is what Lili said at the time. I guess you have already checked the gbxml files and they are different? I mean you're sure that the components export the information to gbXML correctly?

bhowes-tt commented 9 years ago

@mostaphaRoudsari - I haven't checked the gbxmls, just tried to bounce a couple of simple tests off of GBS and this is what I found. I still haven't tested Revit 2016 either. I'll try to dig up and summarize Lilli's notes here for our reference.

bhowes-tt commented 9 years ago

I added this to the 0.2.41 release - let's confirm or deny that these changes DO affect analysis results when triggered in Revit 2016. Assigning this to you, @mostaphaRoudsari