Software for you

SWARD – Storm WAter Roof Designer

SWARD is a sotfware (plugin) created to determine insolation time of indoor spaces in Rhino NURBs modeller. The sotfware (plugin) was developed and tested in Rhino for MAC, as well as in Rhino 5 under MS Windows OS.
To use it as a standalone download and unzip the following file: SWARD Standalone.
To use it as a version for Rhino download and unzip the following file: SWARD Rhino. Then run the following command in Rhino “RunPythonScript” and point to the extracted file.

Current version: 2018.03 Standalone / 2018.02 Rhino.

Media gallery for SWARD 2018.03 Standalone:

Media gallery for SWARD 2018.02 Rhino:

* Changes may apply.

Lumipicker

To use it you need to download, unzip and setup the following file: Download Lumipicker

Lumipicker has been tested on Raspberry Pi3 system running Raspbian Linux and on PC’s with Ubuntu 16.04 Linux OS.

Current version: v2016.01.

Screenshots*:

* Screenshots might have been taken while testing a release candidate.

Lumilyser

To use it you need to download, unzip and setup the following file: Download Lumilyser

Lumilyser has been tested on Raspberry Pi3 system running Raspbian Linux.

Current version: v2016.01.

Screenshots*:

* Screenshots might have been taken while testing a release candidate.

Insolation Lite

Insolation is a sotfware (plugin) created to determine insolation time of indoor spaces in Rhino NURBs modeller. The sotfware (plugin) was developed and tested in Rhino for MAC, as well as in Rhino 5 under MS Windows OS.

Features of Insolation Lite:

  • GUI utilizing Winforms graphical class library
  • Translated to Czech and English languages
  • Evaluation respects the latest ČSN 73 4301 and ČSN 73 0581 standards:
    • Evaluation date set to 1st of March (1.3)
    • Evaluation time interval from 7:10 until 16:50
    • Longitude angle of 50° (Czech Republic)
    • etc.
  • Representation of results in a user friendly manner.

Current version: v2018.01.

  • What’s new:
    • Evaluation support for Slovakia
    • Fixed some issues related to terminology in Multilang.

Screenshots:

Instructions:

  • Download and unzip the following file: Insolation Lite
  • Open Rhino and the scene you would like to work with.
  • Verify the units in use by entering UNITS into the command line. Insolation Lite scales the diagram automatically depending on the actual units (mm, cm, m).
  • Make sure North is facing upwards, i.e. direction vector is parallel to +Y axis
  • Run Insolation Lite by entering RunPythonScript into Rhino’s command line, then point to the Python file and wait for the GUI to appear. Enter the room number, height of evaluation point, town and latitude of town and press the RUN button. You have to select the evaluation point and window surface normal direction. Then wait for the results to appear.
  • Another alternative would be to create an alias.

Insolation Pro

Insolation Pro is a Professional tool one can use to determine insolation time of indoor spaces in Rhino NURBs modeller. The sotfware (plugin) was developed and tested in Rhino for MAC, as well as in Rhino 5 under MS Windows OS. It’s developed independently on Insolation Lite.

Features of Insolation Pro:

  • GUI utilizing Winforms graphical class library
  • Translated to Czech and English languages (i.e. Multilang platform)
  • Evaluation respects the latest ČSN 73 4301 and ČSN 73 0581 nonetheless it can be easily edited
    • The user can change the date and time of evaluation, etc.
  • Simplified or detailed representation of results in a user friendly manner.
  • Batch processing – It can determine the insolation time for and unlimited number of spaces
    • Requires for 2 files – *.3dm.spc and *.3dm.pts. spc file is to include data about spaces, room description and height of evaluation points. pts file is required to include the 3D coordinates of evaluation points as well as the normal vectors in global 3D coordinates.

Current version: v2018.01.

Screenshots:

Instructions:

  • Download and unzip the following file: Insolation Pro
  • Open Rhino and the scene you would like to work with.
  • Verify the units in use by entering UNITS into the command line. Insolation Lite scales the diagram automatically depending on the actual units (mm, cm, m).
  • Make sure North is facing upwards, i.e. direction vector is parallel to +Y axis
  • Run Insolation Lite by entering RunPythonScript into Rhino’s command line, then point to the Python file and wait for the GUI to appear. Enter the room number, height of evaluation point, town and latitude of town and press the RUN button. You have to select the evaluation point and window surface normal direction. Then wait for the results to appear.
  • Another alternative would be to create an alias.

Insolation EN17037 Lite

Insolation is a sotfware (plugin) created to determine insolation time of indoor spaces in Rhino NURBs modeller. The sotfware (plugin) was developed and tested in Rhino for MAC, as well as in Rhino 5 under MS Windows OS.

Features of Insolation Lite:

  • GUI utilizing Winforms graphical class library
  • Translated to Czech and English languages
  • Evaluation respects the EN 17037 European standard:
    • Evaluation date pre-set to 1st of March (1.3) due to Czech requirements but can be modified
    • Sun altitude angle set to 0° because of Czech requirements
    • etc.
  • Representation of results in a user friendly manner.

Current version: v2019.02.

  • What’s new:
    • Evaluation support for all countries in EU
    • Fixed some issues related to terminology in Multilang.

Screenshots:

Instructions:

  • Download and unzip the following file: Insolation EN17037 Lite
  • Open Rhino and the scene you would like to work with.
  • Verify the units in use by entering UNITS into the command line. Insolation Lite scales the diagram automatically depending on the actual units (mm, cm, m).
  • Make sure North is facing upwards, i.e. direction vector is parallel to +Y axis
  • Run Insolation Lite by entering RunPythonScript into Rhino’s command line, then point to the Python file and wait for the GUI to appear. Enter the room number, height of evaluation point, town and latitude of town and press the RUN button. You have to select the evaluation point and window surface normal direction. Then wait for the results to appear.
  • Another alternative would be to create an alias.

Field Insolation LT

Field Insolation LT is a sotfware (plugin) created to determine insolation time of indoor spaces in Rhino NURBs modeller. The sotfware (plugin) was developed and tested in Rhino for MAC, as well as in Rhino 5 under MS Windows OS.
To use it download and unzip the following file: fieldIns. Then run the following command in Rhino “RunPythonScript” and point to the extracted file.

Current version: 2018.01.

Media gallery*:

* Changes may apply.