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Import Luminaire files .ies

asked 2016-01-21 05:36:39 -0500

updated 2017-08-05 08:06:52 -0500

Is it possible to import to OpenStudio/Radiance the Luminaire .ies files?

Is there some measure for this?

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answered 2016-01-21 09:42:18 -0500

In a word, no. Since the OpenStudio Radiance support is focused on the daylighting and handles electric lighting as space loads only, there has not been any focus on getting the spatial photometric data into OpenStudio. One could write a measure to read in the pertinent luminaire data from a photometry (.ies) file and assign it to a luminaire object in the OpenStudio model, but the real fruit of such an effort would be to actually take the luminaire photometry, convert it to Radiance data format (easy), and add it to the Radiance simulation (not easy or fast).

So the bad news is that photometrically-accurate, luminaire-level Radiance simulation is not currently part of OpenStudio. The good news is that it is totally within the realm of possibility by leveraging the OpenStudio API and Measures framework (hint, hint).

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Thank's @rpg777

Geraldo Pithon's avatar Geraldo Pithon  ( 2016-01-21 12:31:48 -0500 )edit
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E_NOT_IMPLEMENTED -> E_YOU_IMPLEMENT_IT. :) UnmetHours does not support emojis? :(

__AmirRoth__'s avatar __AmirRoth__  ( 2016-01-21 12:56:58 -0500 )edit

I dunno, who's in charge, here?! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

rpg777's avatar rpg777  ( 2016-01-21 14:16:19 -0500 )edit

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