Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic

[JavierBrana]

Hello everybody.

I am new using Freecad and even python but I am trying to create a new workbench for solar. The idea would be something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw8jmcDnF2w&t=234s
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQW4ypzhQWY&t=38s

The first problem was to get the land that thanks to geo data and modifying its code I got what I wanted.

The real problem is that I do not find necessary information to be able to repeatedly place an object inside an area and detect that it is inside.

Another thing that I have searched and I have not found is that from the geo date I get a loft with many faces and I want to make a slope analisys of each one. The problem is that to do this I need to paint each face separately. I have managed to detect each face but I can not paint them separately.

Can someone help me?

[Kunda1]

I suggest renaming this thread to something more descriptive.
Please post what version of FreeCAD you are using (Help > About FreeCAD > Copy to clipboard) + also attach a file showing what you are trying to accomplish.

Edit:
Related Solar threads on the forum
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22943 - Solar Plants - Thread started by a solar PV installer/planner
https://github.com/osefrance/SolarConcentrator - Solar Concentrators

[Kunda1]

Another thing that I have searched and I have not found is that from the geo date I get a loft with many faces and I want to make a slope analisys of each one. The problem is that to do this I need to paint each face separately. I have managed to detect each face but I can not paint them separately.

Some geodata development is going on right now at https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27803

[JavierBrana]

I suggest renaming this thread to something more descriptive.
Please post what version of FreeCAD you are using (Help > About FreeCAD > Copy to clipboard) + also attach a file showing what you are trying to accomplish.

OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.17.13528 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-17
Hash: 5c3f7bf8ec51e2c7187789f7edba71a7aa82a88b
Python version: 2.7.14
Qt version: 4.8.7
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.2.0
Locale: Spanish/Spain (es_ES)

Edit:
Related Solar threads on the forum
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=22943 - Solar Plants - Thread started by a solar PV installer/planner
https://github.com/osefrance/SolarConcentrator - Solar Concentrators

I had seen them but they are not useful for what I want to do.

[JavierBrana]

The idea is:

First step: get the mesh of the land to work on an approximation of the ground.
Second step: using a kmz or directly drawing a 2d plane and making a projection on the terrain mesh to get the boundaries of the plot.

After this: position the Racjs or Trackers inside the boundary distributed in rows and columns. for the moment I create a tracker by default but in the future it will have a window to configure it:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkk0lht79tbfw ... a.PNG?dl=0
As you can see, I am using Part as container for all the components because it has Origin and it is easy align with any face.

Get contours from terrain mesh.
The slope analisys is easy. I have to get the angles of the normal and paint the faces depending on them. Here you can find a example used in Revit:
http://dynamobim.com/wp-content/uploads ... 0619-2.jpg

[microelly2]

maybe this can be useful

phpBB [video]

[Kunda1]

WOW, that is SO cool!
I distilled @microelly2's above clip down in to a gif:

[Kunda1]

ping

@Joel_graff I think you'd appreciate this as well.

[Kunda1]

maybe this can be useful

phpBB [video]

Hey @microelly2
Just wondering, would it be possible to integrate pysolar in to this type of demonstration ? (https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=18587)

[JavierBrana]

maybe this can be useful

phpBB [video]

Hello microelly2. I'm watching your work since I started to get interested in this project. I had seen that video but I did not find your code.

It can work, yes.