Sun Path Diagram 3.0.0

Hi sbarrett,

 

I've been having a play with this sun path marionette and it's great!  I just had a quick query for you - the azimuth bearings are correct but the sunrise and sunset dates are incorrect for our locations in NZ (out by almost exactly one hour in our winter and almost exactly two hours  in our summer - I'm guessing daylight savings has something to do with the hour difference between the two)

 

If I could be so bold as to suggest for the future (and please don't take this as criticism) :

 

- Ability to turn on and off the blue intermediary lines (perhaps classed as something unique?)

- Ability to turn off the blue intermediary sunrise and sunset times (perhaps classed as something unique?)

 

As a work-around, once I have set the location I can ungroup the Marionette object and delete (or classify and alter visibility) the unwanted intermediate lines and times to achieve the desired look

Im receiving  this set of error messages....SunDiagram test.vwx

Any thoughts?

Hello @amcdonell-

 

This is a bug that will be fixed for 2019 in a future service pack. The problem is that with the Mac OS, Apple changed the way that they write file paths, so the command to locate an external library (in this case the geopy library) is broken. This is only a bug for those running Vectorworks on a Mac that is running 10.13 or higher. I also run this OS so I am currently experiencing this bug as well. Unfortunately I don't have any fixes. The script should still work on a PC and on an older Mac OS. This is true for all of my weather analysis graphs.

Thanks mate, its great little feature you have created so, I look forward to the potential resolution in 2019. Though I fear it'll be at the end of a very long list of bugs to be fixed for Sp1 ! 2019 is the most crashy VW ive used for about 10 years.

 

Thaks

Hello everyone,

 

Is it possible to display sun path in 3D?

Hi,

Thanks a lot for all those scripts. They are awesome, and very useful for architects.

As chrispole mentioned, a 3D version linked to the heliodon's shadow analysis would be a great evolution.

An other cool additional feature would be to have a spreadsheet with all the values.

 

Again, many thanks for this work !

note :  I had to disable the SIP protection on macOS 10.15 in order to be able to make the additional installation.

Edited June 16, 2020 by GatRed

I'm now getting a 'module geopy cannot be downloaded error.'

 

VW 2020 SP4

Edited August 25, 2020 by lgoodkind

@sbarrett Hi,

 

I've just downloaded the Sun Path Diagram and having the same error codes posted by @amcdonell above

I'm running 2020 SP6 on OS BigSure 11.2.2.

Location Australia

 

Wondering if there are any fixes for this yet?

 

Thanks 🙂

 

 

I'm getting the same errors as above - it would be great if this tool could be updated and incorporated into Vectorworks. The 3D aspects previously mentioned would be good additions too.

Getting a Geopy missing popup in VW 2023 and then this error after it said it installed?

On 1/5/2023 at 9:54 AM, _James said:

it would be great if this tool could be updated and incorporated into Vectorworks

 

Agreed.

These tools (sun, wind, temperature) were very handy when they first came out and worked.  It would be nice to have them consistently supported from within the program as features that remain functional with each new VWX version.

@sbarrett?

 

@sbarrett Cannot use in VW 2024, get message that it cannot download Python GEOPY...Can we just make this built into VW for upcoming revisions, everyone is doing solar studies and heliodon is not sufficient on it own to graphically show sun path to clients...even better would be a 3D version of this like Revit has.

Well I did not get any update from @sbarrett to fix this but can share that I got this Marionette working after copying the files from VW 2023 install folder to the VW 2024 folder. Simply copy/paste all files in C:\Users\patri\AppData\Roaming\Nemetschek\Vectorworks\2024\Python Externals

 

Obviously your users sub-folder (in bold above) will be different.

This file should now be available to use in 2024!

This is great, thanks @sbarrett

 

Are the axes labelled correctly? It looks like they are rotated 90deg anticlockwise on my file? West is at the top when it should be North unless I am misunderstanding?

 

I tried to edit the 'control geometry' but no luck.

 

@sbarrett @_James James is correct, top north of page should be indicating North. Can you fix this @sbarrett ? 

 

Thanks

I appreciate to mucho your efforts in sustainable design. But this tool is made only for the US. I can't be part because I am in Chile.

Regards

On 12/2/2023 at 12:52 PM, Francisco J. D. Rogers said:

I appreciate to mucho your efforts in sustainable design. But this tool is made only for the US. I can't be part because I am in Chile.

Regards

Francisco - It works ok for me and I am in the UK. I put "Cambridge, UK" in the location field in the OIP and it seems to work. Are you adding "CL" or similar after the city?

On 12/2/2023 at 11:52 PM, Francisco J. D. Rogers said:

I appreciate to mucho your efforts in sustainable design. But this tool is made only for the US. I can't be part because I am in Chile.

Regards

It works for Australia as well. 

 

On 11/30/2023 at 11:59 AM, SBarrettWalker said:

This file should now be available to use in 2024!

Thank you, SbarrettWalker.

Edited March 24 by Silvano