Sketchup Eneroth Face Creator How To Import Modules

The only advice I could give you would be to try to keep things simple, the complexity of the scene geometry has a direct impact on shadings calculation time.

This works great.

I am also quite familiar with importing.dae and.3ds files (for the shading scene without the PV) from SketchUp into PVsyst.

However, I would like to be able to import both (the shading scene as well as the PV).

I recently realized that PVSyst offers that option: which is great.

While I was successful with SunDAT after multiple tries I am struggling with Helioscope.

With SunDAT I create the layout in SketchUp then export the 3D model to.dae.

Then assign the PV in the PVobject tab.

I do not find this PV object tab very intuitive as I see no relation in the name of the PVobjects with the ones in my SUnDAT layout.

With Helioscope which is CAD based I have been unsuccessful so far.

I strictly followed the tutorial in the PVsyst 6 Help and it does not seem to help.

To give more details, here is what I have done: 1) Exported from Helioscope the layout to.dxf file which i saved as a.dwg 2) Converted the module which came as 3D polyline from Helioscope to surface then mesh 3) Exported to.fbx in Autocad 4) Converted from.fbx to.dae with Autodesk FBX Converter x64 2013 5) Import into PVSyst The issue I ran into is that the PVobjects does not even show just as there was nothing in the 3D model that could potentially be interpreted as a module by PVSyst.

I spend quite a good amount of time troubleshooting this but but so far was unsuccessful.

I even copied and pasted the module from SunDAT into my Helioscope layoiut.

Would it be possible to share more information about: - the type of objects (surface, solid, mesh) PV modules should be in Autocad so that they appear in the PVObjects tab - any type of setting while exporting to.fbx from Autocad FX export dunction - any type of settings while exporting to.dae with Autodesk FBX Converter x64 2013 - any DOs and DONTs when importing a shading scene along with PV modules into PVSyst Thanks a lot for your assistance on this.

We chose to rely on the material instead of the objects because: - we cant convert full objects to PV faces, as this would mean that if you defined a parallelepiped PV module all of its 6 faces would be transformed to PV faces, - the material is easy to apply on faces in 3D modeling software, and it is always copied along with the object when you duplicate it - its easier to select one or two materials than hundreds or thousands of objects for complex scenes So if you define a PV face material in Sketchup or AutoCAD and apply it on the real PV face of your objects, then you should be able to select it after you import the DAE file in PVsyst.

About the settings information youre asking for, there shouldnt be any particular setting needed, the default ones should export and convert the materials correctly.

However you may want to have a very detailed and good-looking scene on your simulation report, in this case you may consider disabling shadow casting for objects which you know wont project any shadow on your PV fields, and this will ease calculations.

I hope I could help you on that, you seem to be using this new import feature quite intensively which is great Sylvain.

I tried to add material to the modules in the DXF file from Helioscope without any success.

I also tried converting the objects into different objects such as plane surface, mesh.

Sketchup Eneroth Face Creator How To Import Modules

If someone has any idea how to import modules into PVSyst from there that would be super helpful.