Energos heliodon project location issue

[Andrew Lees]

Hi,

I am having an issue with Energos issue on VW 2024 that I haven't experienced before which is driving me slightly crazy! 

I have set the heliodon to my project location creating a new "city" - in this case a village in the middle of the UK - see my first screen shot below. 

Upon saving that I then I notice in the object info for the helidodon that the latitude / longitude is not the same as that which I have set - second screenshot. This is the more minor of my issues. Main one below.

When I then go into Energos project settings it says it is deriving location from the heliodon (detailing the name of my village) but then has Birmingham USA detailed beneath this. I understand that Vectorworks selects climate data from the closest option to the site - so how am I ending up with Birmingham Alabama???

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks.

[rDesign]

As to the first question, it seems that the Heliodon OIP displays the Position as Degrees Minutes (53º 0' N 1º 26' W), where as the Heliodon Settings still shows it as Degrees Lat Long (53.0º N 1.44º W). It's displaying close to the same data (1.44º = 1º 26.4', so it seems like the OIP just drops off the 0.4').

 

I'd guess that it picked Birmingham AL (USA) because it couldn't find a city close to your location, not sure why it couldn't. It also picked Birmingham AL for me when I followed your steps. This sounds like a bug to me.

 

I think you have to use the 'Advanced Location...' button on the Energos Project Settings to manually pick a City from the UK list that is close to your location.

[Andrew Lees]

Thanks for looking into this @rDesign.

After I posted this I ran a simulation at this location and then for comparison ran another simulation with 'Advanced Location', selecting the city of Leeds - which is farther north than the site. The results were similar, but with the performance in Leeds slightly worse - as would be expected. It then occurred to me that the bug is simply the designation of 'USA' after Birmingham, it should be (I deduce) 'UK', as Birmingham UK is 52.4823° N, 1.8900° W which is very plausibly the closest weather data to the site.

So bug alert @vectorworks!  

[rDesign]

Since the Forum isn't officially monitored by VW employees responsible for filing / fixing bugs you should go ahead and submit a bug report with what you’ve discovered. Just don’t expect to receive a confirmation or answer.
 

https://www3.vectorworks.net/vectorworks-bug-report