What does OS do when you define an air wall?

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Hi Rob, I saw your tutorials, excellent for traineers, but I have doubts. Imagine a L shape small building and I want to analyse daylighting performance in two adjacent zones separated by air wall. Should I put the illuminance map crossing the air wall? Or is it mandatory 1 for each zone? Tks so much!

Hi again, after run simulation I suposed that first alternative is impossible....Am I correct?[openstudio.radiance.ForwardTranslator] <0> Secondary DaylightingControl Daylighting Control 3 is not supported by Radiance, it will not be translated.

Unfortunately because we are trying to maintain some parity with the EnergyPlus simulation you're forced to use one illuminance map per zone. The best approach here will depend on what you're looking for, daylight metrics or lighting schedules. I realized the answer is probably "both", but in this case you may have to pick, until we can support this better. If the L-shape is a single zone, I would consider making it two zones, frankly.

Hi Rob, Thank you very much for help. I followed your instructions and the simulation works. Now, I need to learn about energy consumption analisys, with Openstudio. Can you show me any tutorial?

Do you mean in the context of the Radiance measure? The main point of the measure was to calculate new electric lighting schedules based on the Radiance daylight availability data, so you could look at the delta in lighting energy use using Results Viewer, etc. The measure does also output a bunch of other interesting data such as daylight metrics, but these are still a bit buried, unfortunately. But if you look in the measure's directory, under radiance/output/, you will see daylight_metrics.csv and several others.