[Bldg-sim] Daylighting Program

[Rob Guglielmetti]

On Mar 6, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Vikram Sami wrote:

> If you have 3DS max, you could export a sketchup file to it. Max now  
> has a daylight simulation engine similar to Daysim (in fact I think  
> Christoph Reinhart was involved with its development)
>

You can also export SketchUp models into Radiance directly with the  
su2rad plugin developed by Thomas Bleicher.

http://code.google.com/p/su2rad/

As far as the simulation engines mentioned above, yes, Max uses the  
Mental Ray raytracer and Daysim uses Radiance.

- Rob Guglielmetti
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