I’m trying to use pollination to produce wind roses for each month but the only option under the environmental modelling tab is for a single wind rose. There’s a gh set up with LBTs on Hydra (link below), but many of the components are old and I couldn’t get it to work after replacing them with new components due to the differences in the LB Windrose component.
Could the Pollination team add the multiple monthly wind roses (in a grid) to the environmental tools or update the one on hydra to work with the latest LBT components?
Hi @robm, thank you for the feature request. After the Thanksgiving holidays, we should be able to update the sample file to the latest version. Adding a new command might take a bit more time. Let’s wait for @chriswmackey to decide about the best approach.
Hey @robm ,
I just updated the Legacy sample for a the grid of wind roses:
Anyone should be able to update any Legacy sample file as long as you use the LB Legacy Updater and you take the time to read some of the new component descriptions.
Making slightly different versions of the same graphic 12 times isn’t really the type of thing that Rhino commands are designed to do. That’s more of a Grasshopper type of operation. So I was not planning on adding a PO_MonthlyGridWindRose command. But, if you really wanted something like this, you could write your own command in the Rhino 8 ScriptEditor using the Ladybug Tools SDK. It would probably be ~200 lines of code or so depending on what type of customization you wanted to expose as command options.
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Thanks Chris, I really appreciate this. Running the multiple wind roses in gh is fine. In fact I’m finding the plug in tools far more unstable and unreliable than working in gh directly, for example the pollination rhino plug in is throwing out errors and cancelling sims to the point where it’s completely unusable for energy and daylight recipes. I’m really hoping either you or Mustapha can fix pollination for rhino errors as in theory it would save a lot of time if it worked. In case the plug ins become unworkable, are you able to update the daylight and energy recipes in hydra as well?
I am re-assigning this issue to @mostapha as he probably wants to know the errors and cancellations that you are talking about here:
For me personally, I tend to do all of my model building and property assignment in the Rhino plugin but I prefer to run the simulation and process/analyze/visualize the results in Grasshopper. So I make heavy use of the PO Model component.
There’s just a certain level of control over data analysis and visualization that you get with visual scripting is very tough to match with a typical windowed plugin interface. But there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s much easier and more reliable to build the Honeybee model in the Rhino plugin compared to doing it in Grasshopper. You’re just setting yourself up to have lots of annoying little mistakes if you try to build a Honeybee model with more than a dozen Rooms in Grasshopper.
We’re continuing the discussion here:
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