Posts made by Juantxo

Update to last version ( 523 October 2018).
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Just update to skelion 521. Some address changed and relief tool stop working. It is fixed in 521.

You can enter any file with NREL TMY3 format.
In future versions we will add a tool to create synthetic hourly values from monthly values.
Meteo data is only used to calculate shading losses (radiation that arrives to the panel taking into account shadows).
Yield is calculated with PVWATTS and PVGIS and meteo data used to calculate shading losses in skelion is not related.

Watch insert solar panels video and and SOF plots video please.

http://skelion.com/en/training.htm?v1.0.1

Best regards

Recommended iterations are 1-3, as you can read just on the left of the text box.
Nobody needs 30 iterations so use 1,2 or 3 iterations. Remember to check join shadows radio button also.

Any error you can reproduce please email to support@skelion.com telling the steps to reproduce the error, Skelion version, SketchUp version and OS version.

About Skelion 519 versus 518, there are a lot of changes and it is the work of several months. If the message appears it is because update is critical. Also I recommend you to update SketchUp each year.

In the above post you can see the new solar tracking feature, only one of the changes that have skelion 519.

Best regards

Last version of Skelion has been released, with a nice solar tracking feature, for one and two axis solar trackers:

[flash=560,349:lp902fjt]http://www.youtube.com/v/W8DdJ2VpgO0?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash:lp902fjt]

Problem is not related with Skelion. Update to SketchUp 2015 last release.
And use perspective view.

Obects disappear: Not skelion related, is camera clipping. Change from parallel view to perspective view and problem is solved.
Read about here:
http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/36261

Camera clipping problem does not affect shading derate calculations

I not sure what are you talking... You can set tilt and azimuth of the components. You can choose also 3 different ways to insert the components in non-planar.
Please, watch the video tutorials at http://www.youtube.com/skelion

Go to plugins foder and there skelion folder. Read change.log to see the changes.

About the image, is not a glitch. If you have 2 faces coplanar, SketchUp shows both textures.
Give some depth to your panels and then the face of the panel won't be coplanar to roof face.

I don't know. You should ask PVSYST team.

It seems there are some error in new SketchUP 2014 that makes SketchUp crash sometimes.
I can not find out which action makes SketchUp crahs, but I will try to find it.
(Maybe related with undo operations, but not sure.)
Just open file and repeat action again. It will works. See images:

@flyingpikachu said:

Couldn't find such a feature in Skelion,

It's a pro feature. Just click mountains icon.

Yes, en-Us.

Sorry, I didn't update my profile.
In Windows SketchUp 2013 p(params) returns
"lid1,élan"
so works fine. (I think in SU8 also)
Problem is in Windows SU2014 that returns non utf string.

In Windows 7 p(params) returns non utf-8
"lid1,\xC3\xA9lan"
and console shows:
return using add_action_callback lid1 = élan
return using get_element_value => élan

I'm not sure what are you asking, but to import large google earth image there are several methods:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=40627%26amp;hilit=terrain+mesh
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323%26amp;t=40413
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=271%26amp;t=6867
http://a4chitect.webng.com/

If you download Skelion plugin, there is a feature to make a mesh of an area, (no image satellite), using NASA’s SRTM Elevation data.
SketchUp ruby API does not have methods to add locations.

Thanks to Driven and Dan.
I will use new notation instead use force_encoding. I think now it should works...

#UUID in RUBY 2.0 WINDOWS
` cmd="wmic csproduct get uuid"
filename = File.join(ENV["TMP"],"backquote.out")

exec_string = "`" + cmd + " > " + filename + "`"
exec_string.gsub! '\\', '/'
eval("#{exec_string}")

uuid=""
open(filename, "r:BOM|utf-16le:UTF-8") do |io|
	uuid = io.read
end`

I would like to find motherboard UUID. I almost did, but in Windows SU2014 I must use

...force_encoding("utf-16le")...

I don't know why and the worst, now one SU2014 Windows user is reporting:

Error: #<ArgumentError: unknown encoding name - utf-16le>

Someone have an idea about why sometimes not work in Windows, or have a best method to find UUID?

Code to find UUID:
MAC OS:
uuid = %x(ioreg -l | awk '/IOPlatformSerialNumber/ { print }')
WIN:
#RUBY_VERSION 1.8
cmd="wmic csproduct get uuid" uuid = %x(#{cmd})

#RUBY_VERSION 2.0 (workaround to fix the backquotes bug included):

cmd="wmic csproduct get uuid" filename = ENV["TMP"].encode("utf-8") + "\\backquote.out" exec_string = "" + cmd + " > " + filename + "" exec_string.gsub! '\\', '/' eval("#{exec_string}") contents = File.read(filename) uuid= contents.force_encoding("utf-16le").encode('UTF-8') uuid.slice!(0)

5.1.l works but in windows there is a problem. You need to open SketchUp files dragging them over SketchUp shortcut. And to open SketchUp you can not click the shortcut, you need to pin up SketchUp in main windows bar.
It will be fixed soon.