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Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Some progress:
Blue color under the tracker are the filling areas and the red ones are cutting areas. Just now I have to figure out how to join them to get volumes.
Functions:
Blue color under the tracker are the filling areas and the red ones are cutting areas. Just now I have to figure out how to join them to get volumes.
Functions:
- Import points from ASC and CVS
- generate frames
- autoplace frames
- generate frames
- calculate earthworks
- export to PVSyst
Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Several questions and lets see if someone can help me:
First one is when I project a point on a mesh in several times I don´t get any solution. I have this problem when I use MeshPart.projectShapeOnMesh or projectPointsOnMesh. In several cases it does not return any value or the wire/line projected is not full. Any solution for this??
Second one is when I try to draw a wire on a mesh/surface or anywhere FreeCAD draw it wherever it wants and never on the mesh. A example is when I want to draw a wire for the boundary. At this moment I draw a wire on the mesh but when I change the view, the wire is in another place and sometimes far away from the mesh. Other example is when I want to posicionate a tree on the mesh. How can I get the real point when I click on the mesh?
Other question. I saw several tool, like when you cut a mesh, drawing a temporal and auxiliary polygon that its does not appear in the tree and later it desapears when you finish this action. how can I do this?
other more. I saw in the forum that there is a version of FreeCAD thar draws shadows. I just donwload the last version and I can´t do this. Is this property enable? Over all this porperty help me to see the shadow projections on the frames and check the distances between them.
First one is when I project a point on a mesh in several times I don´t get any solution. I have this problem when I use MeshPart.projectShapeOnMesh or projectPointsOnMesh. In several cases it does not return any value or the wire/line projected is not full. Any solution for this??
Second one is when I try to draw a wire on a mesh/surface or anywhere FreeCAD draw it wherever it wants and never on the mesh. A example is when I want to draw a wire for the boundary. At this moment I draw a wire on the mesh but when I change the view, the wire is in another place and sometimes far away from the mesh. Other example is when I want to posicionate a tree on the mesh. How can I get the real point when I click on the mesh?
Other question. I saw several tool, like when you cut a mesh, drawing a temporal and auxiliary polygon that its does not appear in the tree and later it desapears when you finish this action. how can I do this?
other more. I saw in the forum that there is a version of FreeCAD thar draws shadows. I just donwload the last version and I can´t do this. Is this property enable? Over all this porperty help me to see the shadow projections on the frames and check the distances between them.
Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
@Joel_graff can you weigh in on the mesh questions?Joel_graff wrote: pinged by pinger macro
re: shadows
https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Arch_Site#S ... d_diagrams
Unless you're referring to realthunder's shadows in the viewport (but that's on his experimental LinkStage3 branch
Here's his initial post: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 60#p394930
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Thank you Kunda1 for your fast reply.
Shadows: it is a mix between both. I took Arch as base of my workbench because BIM and I will modify, or rewrite ArchSite to allow sun tracking. At the same time, with the new shadow property of FreeCAD I would like to simulate them.
Shadows: it is a mix between both. I took Arch as base of my workbench because BIM and I will modify, or rewrite ArchSite to allow sun tracking. At the same time, with the new shadow property of FreeCAD I would like to simulate them.
Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Awesome. Is your repo hosting the PV workbench public?JavierBrana wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:28 pm Shadows: it is a mix between both. I took Arch as base of my workbench because BIM and I will modify, or rewrite ArchSite to allow sun tracking. At the same time, with the new shadow property of FreeCAD I would like to simulate them.
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
bumpKunda1 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 1:25 amAwesome. Is your repo hosting the PV workbench public?JavierBrana wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:28 pm Shadows: it is a mix between both. I took Arch as base of my workbench because BIM and I will modify, or rewrite ArchSite to allow sun tracking. At the same time, with the new shadow property of FreeCAD I would like to simulate them.
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Very interesting workbench indeed. Have you thought about exporting an IFC model and then using it in BlenderBIM and Ladybug (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMCuSwsF2aM) ?JavierBrana wrote: ↑Thu Apr 22, 2021 2:28 pm Thank you Kunda1 for your fast reply.
Shadows: it is a mix between both. I took Arch as base of my workbench because BIM and I will modify, or rewrite ArchSite to allow sun tracking. At the same time, with the new shadow property of FreeCAD I would like to simulate them.
https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic. ... 7&start=50
It looks like you can do yearly solarhour simulations. I wonder if it could be also possible to include Ladybug in Freecad for these type of calculations.
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Re: Creating a new workbench for photovoltaic
Hi everyone, I just want to know if actually there is a workbench where we can place photovoltaic pannels and also if we can do that in 2D at first and then in a 3D effect. I'm working on houses most of the time and also on docks but not in photovoltaic farms so I need a 2D plan to get the perfect dimensions to produce a plan for the workers.
Can somebody help me to know if there is a workbench for that ?
This is what i'm making actually to give you an idea :
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/202 ... -titre.png
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/202 ... e-dock.png
Sorry for my english I think u guessed that i'm french
Thanks for ur future answers and for the precisions that u will give to me !!
Can somebody help me to know if there is a workbench for that ?
This is what i'm making actually to give you an idea :
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/202 ... -titre.png
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/202 ... e-dock.png
Sorry for my english I think u guessed that i'm french
Thanks for ur future answers and for the precisions that u will give to me !!