Solar panels that track the sun
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You should be able to get something together using the SUNANGLE() and SUNELEVATION() commands provided.
It'll take a bit of fiddling, though.
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I think there's a sun-facing solar panel among the examples. Have you looked at that?
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Thanks for the answers, I'll look into it and let you know if i managed to work it out or no!
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I am a little late to this thread but thought I would chime in. At one time I was excited about the sun-tracking ability of DCs, but the buzzkill for me was that the DC would need to be refreshed with a right-click... it would not track the sun as the sun moved.
Matt
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But Simone just published some ruby code to help make a plugin that will make DC's respond to scene changes. So it would be possible using that plugin to make a DC that changes with each scene change. Might be interesting.
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
But Simone just published some ruby code to help make a plugin that will make DC's respond to scene changes.
When? Where?
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Dynamic Components that react to scene (aka page) changes
Have you ever wanted to have a Dynamic Component that reacts to Scene changes? Well, this blogpost tells you how to write one (th...
(sketchupapi.blogspot.com)
he posted the link yesterday in the ruby forum I think?
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ok thanks.
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@thomthom said:
I think there's a sun-facing solar panel among the examples. Have you looked at that?
Hi Thom
Do you still have that component? I can't find it anywhere...
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I just saw it once in the component browser - when SU 7.0 first came out. On G Warehouse - think it was made by Google...
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Yes, I can also remember but for the life cannot find it. Thanks anyway.
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The solar panel is under the "solar panel" tab for this component
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Thanks a bunch!
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Does anybody know how to create an exact sun tracker?
I mean, I saw the DC by google, but the problem is that that DC has the center
of the coordinates system in the bottom line of the panel, while, actually,
the center of real trackers is in the center of the platform containing the panels.
I tried to make a DC by playing with sunangle and sunelevation and putting the axis
orientation of the DC yet in the center of a rectangle.
But no success!
Does anybody know how to set RotX RotZ RotY and the axis ref.?
Thank you
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