This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.Although Ecotect allows for some modeling tasks but it’s typically an easier workflow for designers to use Ecotect’s import function to prepare the input file for Ecotect analysis instead of recreating the model from scratch. If a higher accuracy is required, the script can be easily modified to average out the numbers for the 2 triangulated surface for the quad. Since ecotect triangulates all mesh input and doubling the number is mesh faces, this script simply skips every other number in the data file to match the quad face in rhino, therefore 50% of the data from ecotect is omitted. Of course this is for display only, but with a little knowledge in scripting, you can use the data to drive different aspects of your geometry, possibility is endless! The script will place an annotation dot on each face showing the data from the ecotect analysis. The script will ask for 2 things, your mesh and the location of your data. Now go back to rhino, make sure your geometry is still on your screen and run the script.
Your data should begin at Row 1 as shown. Once it's in Excel, we'll need to get rid of the headers.Ĭlick and drag your mouse on the Row numbers on the left, right click and select Delete. Open Excel and open the data file you just saved, and import with these settings. This is what the data file looks like, and we'll need to do a little editing. txt at the end of the file name so you won't be looking for it afterward. In case they're facing inward, invert them by first selecting all the faces, Modify>Reverse Normals or Ctrl-R.Ĭlick on the Object Attribute Values > Properties to access the dataĮxport the data to your favorite location. You can check that by going to Display>Surface Normals or Ctrl+F9. One important note, if your surface is meant to be your exterior envelop, make sure the face normal is facing outward. Import into ecotect and run your favorite analysis. Once again, make sure there aren't any triangulated mesh, then save it out as. Again, if you have multiple surfaces, create the mesh as seperate surfaces first, then join them as mesh.
You can adjust the Min Edge Lengh and Maximum Edge Length as you see fit. If it is a polysurface, explode them first, meshing them as polysurface will create triangulated mesh along the seams and you want to prevent that.Ĭreate a quad mesh with these settings. For this tutorial, you'll need this following Rhinoscript. This tutorial runs you through the process of exporting your rhino geometry into ecotect and then bring the analysis data back into rhino.
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