AutoCad 3D :: How To Do A Solar Panel
Mar 7, 2012Which is the best way to do a solar panel?
View 9 RepliesWhich is the best way to do a solar panel?
View 9 RepliesI relatively new at this 3D stuff however I've produced a model in 3D & need to add both realistic sky & sea but don't know how. I managed to add sky as a background but can't get the sea to work. Also I need to add the image of a solar panel onto a solid but can't get it to work either.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am looking for a lisp or vba to calculate solar panel angel / solar light power on any place in the world found 1 that shows sun time on 1 day of the year.
And can the autocad menu's SUNPROPERTIES / GEOGRAPHICLOCATION be controlled by lisp or vba ?
I can place a solar panel on the roof, but cannot do anything with it. When I try to tilt it from upright, it turns yellow and says "cannot rotate" . Been stuck on this problem for a week now, and am quite frustrated as you can imagine. Have tried every trick that I and others have suggested to no effect. Seems to be constrained to one of my vertical reference lines. Reference line is listed as the "host", but it's greyed out, so I can't change it. Tried to disassociate from reference line, but can't.
Went in to "family" and noticed that there's and extrusion underneath the panel (invisible when placing the panel). Don't know what it's there for, or if this has anything to do with it. I can't delete or modify it.
I've also tried to create my own solar panel, but can't figure out how to save it as "my own" family.
I simply want to tilt the panel back about 35 degrees. I've tried to tilt it in all different views. Sometimes I can get it to tilt along the wrong axis, never on the one I want it to. Is there any way I can create my own panel with a sketch program, import it into Revit, and save it as a component?
Does Revit Architecture/M&E/Structures 2013 have a standard solar panel family?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm a cartographer not a 3D modeler! However, I've been tasked with creating a simple animation of a two-axis solar PV panel as it tracks the sun across the sky during a single day.
I've got everything modeled but don't understand how to constrain and establish the motion relationships - IK chains, rigging and such. See attached image for my needs. I believe I have the rotation pivot points established.
I can place a solar panel on the surface of the roof (flush with roof surface), but cannot tilt it up. No matter what I try, an error message comes up saying "can't rotate element into this position".Have tried creating new panel, renaming it, etc. The panel seems to have a constraint of some sort that I cannot override.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am into tracking solar array's. So designing for high winds is paramount. I wonder if Inventor will have a package for analysis of wind loads. It is a different kind of FEA. Call it a 3-D distributed load.
View 5 Replies View Relatedhow to use Civil 3D to create a grading plan for a solar PV site or a golf course?
Here is the situation. We have a large 100 acre site that is not flat. We want to do minimal grading to "smooth out the surface". So that maximum slope on the site is 10%. The site does not have to be graded completely flat. We are trying to work with the existing contours and terrain as much as possible.
Is there some functiion or some way for Civil 3D to "smooth out a surface"? We want to work with the existing slopes and contours of the site and just need a grading plan that will smooth out mounds, holes, or high slope areas.
Here are two ones I have created (comments welcome) but I was looking at some on deviantart and getting some idears I wanted to know how to do a few things: -Milkyway (Whole Galaxy)SunShadows (Like in Startrek voyager intro where the sun light hits the ship and casts a shadow)Spaceship (just wanted to know how people put these in to there pictures.
View 1 Replies View RelatedFor one of the students first projects I would want them to make a solar system. Of course there would be spheres representing planets with pivot points in the center of the system (the sun) and some would revolve slower and some faster around the sun. Now I was able to create the planets and set the pivot points in the center (the sun) and have them rotate but I'm trying to take this a step further. I really want to create moons that would circle the planets.
That's where my problems starts. I have a planet that I want a moon to revolve around. I was able to change the moons pivot point to the center of the planet but the pivot point remains there while the planet circles the sun. What I need to do is have the moons pivot point locked onto the planet that way if the planet moves, then the moon moves along with it. In this case, the moon will be rotating around the planet as the planet rotates around the sun.
I want to know all about solar radiation analysis in revit 2013. any tutorial link? I have tried it on my design but it only opens sun path. and there is no "add ins" option.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm having difficulty in reducing solar glare on a tree (poor camera). Here is the part of the picture I'm working on. What method do I use?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI need to create a background for a piece... but it cant look cartoony or anything, and I dont want any planets. I just want really cool looking stars.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs it possible to enter a custom number of frames in a solar study so the length of the overall animation can be lengthened and the quality of the animation improved?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIs there a reason why I can not open the actions panel from the timeline when I have the code panel docked and open in application frame? If I close the code panel I can view the actions panel. Why can't I have both open?
View 1 Replies View Relatedlost basic panel from righthand side adjustable panel, how can i restore it? There are everything else but basic ones.
View 1 Replies View RelatedFrom the Brush Presets Panel, I choose Basic Brushes from the drop down menu. Then Replace. The new choice of brushes appear in the Brush Panel and in the Brush Presets Panel.
But in the Brush Panel, additional brushes appear.
There are always more brushes in the Brush Panel than the Brush Presets Panel whenever I Replace. The Brushes Preset Manager is populated with identical brushes as the Brush Presets Panel. What determines the additional brushes that appear in the Brush Panel?
I have CS5. The bugs and broken features in AICS6, make it unusable in my workflow.
I am specifically concerned about the inability to drag global color swatches from the color panel to Gradient stops in the Gradient Panel. I use this method to update a gradient color because I find it MUCH faster than option-dragging to duplicate a stop color, then deleting the unused stop. Since I do this constantly, I find using CS6 very tedious.
So, I have been learning how to customize the CUI. I have gotten as far as adding and arranging commands on the existing panels. Next, I added a new panel and added commands to the new panel. Then I dragged and dropped it onto the Home tab. But no new panel. I seem to have missed a step in getting the new panel recognized as being on the Home tab.
So, once you have created a new panel, is there a command in the CUI to activate the new panel?
I have autocad 2012 and am diving into 3d modeling. I realized the build panel is missing from my home tab. how I can get it to show?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI've got a customer that I'm working with where we need to route some text on panel goods. However, as we all know, when you explode text it don't look too pretty since you lose the fancy curves and such.
That said, a solution to smoothing out the curves that doesn't require hours of tracing each letter with a spline? Any way that I can get some vector linework.
I'm finally making a conscious effort to move to the ribbon... How to copy an existing panel to an existing tab?
I don't really want to start creating new panels from scratch.
The clipboard panel isn't showing up in Home> - even though I have something saved, ready to be Paste Special'd. Acad 2013.
View 2 Replies View Relatedcustomize my ribbon panel no longer works here thus my problem. We upgraded to 2013 and since I'm use to my 2011 ribbon the way it is ... I'm trying to customize it. How do you move a panel from one tab to another? I'm trying to move the dimenions panel from annoate to the home tab.
View 9 Replies View RelatedWhy can you only export a part as 2D sheet metal part? All parts are of some sort of machine component be it sheet metal of wood for CNC. The file prep is the same..
When will autodesk recognize that plenty of companies are in woodwork and Shopfitting? It's not only metalworking that benefit.
Luckily for me, I'm good at programming so I make my own tools but there are others less skilled. Open the umbrella autodesk......
What is a "Fold Panel" in the Ribbon. I can't find any information on it in the documentation?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I switch to a layout there is a panel "Layout Tools" that grabs focuse. I've never had it before, where/how I turn it off?
View 6 Replies View RelatedJust digging into 2012 and I can't seem to locate a custom toolbar UI. I have a set of customizations that I distribute to my group thru a shared drive and we are used to them all being in one place, in every environment. It appears that in order to do this I have to customize the ribbon tabs for each environment individually and manually? That can't be the case though, very counterproductive, there must be another way.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am using IV2009 on Windows 7 64bit. I am somewhat new to Inventor, maybe this is simple.
The Aseembly Panel is greyed out in the model I am working on, see attached. There are also a lot of broken constraints that I am unable to work on becaue the red cross is greyed out also. (I did try open this in IV2012, with the same result on the ribbon assembly panel)
I do not know exactly how it happened, as I did not create it; to my understanding it occurred while restructuring the assembly tree in a lower level assembly. This model is made up of lots of MDT imported parts, and some step parts as well. This model is also very heavy, and took too long for its size to load on my 32GB notebook.
I have a number of custom Toolbars from ACA 2009 that I would like to convert to Panels in ACA 2010. I created a new Panel that is listed in the CUI but does not appear on the Ribbon anywhere. what windows to use in the CUI, and when to drag info from one to another.
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