I got the following error trying the load the GBXML model from pollination in Rhino.
It was the Rhino example house model
Failed to load model: System.ArgumentException: Command:
C:\Program Files/ladybug_tools\python\python -m honeybee_energy translate model-from-gbxml --output-file “C:\Users\moses\AppData\Local\Temp\r0bavznm.n1x.hbjson” “C:\Users\moses\OneDrive - Sheehan Nagle Hartray Architects\Desktop\GBXmlModel.xml”
honeybee_energy.cli.translate - ERROR - Model translation failed.
Failed to run OpenStudio CLI:
Cannot load gbXML file at ‘’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Program Files\ladybug_tools\python\lib\site-packages\honeybee_energy\cli\translate.py”, line 364, in model_from_gbxml
_run_translation_osw(osw, out_path)
File “C:\Program Files\ladybug_tools\python\lib\site-packages\honeybee_energy\cli\translate.py”, line 679, in _run_translation_osw
_parse_os_cli_failure(os.path.dirname(osw))
File “C:\Program Files\ladybug_tools\python\lib\site-packages\honeybee_energy\run.py”, line 939, in _parse_os_cli_failure
‘Failed to run OpenStudio CLI:\n{}’.format(‘\n’.join(log_osw.errors)))
Exception: Failed to run OpenStudio CLI:
Cannot load gbXML file at ‘’
at Core.Utility.ExePythonCommand(String argument, String& results)
at Core.Utility.GBXMLToHBJson(String gbxmlPath, String saveAsPath)
at Pollination.RH.Import.PollinationImport.RunGbxmlImporter(String filename, RhinoDoc doc, FileReadOptions options)