[EnergyPlus_Support] Position for the Daylighting reference points

[Álvaro Fialho <alvarofialho@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

I'm struggling with the problem of automatically finding good positions 
for the reference points needed in order to play with day-lighting, 
maybe you have a different/simpler solution for this...

So, briefly, the FenestrationSurface (window) is "part of" a 
BuildingSurface (wall), that is "part of" a Zone. I'm constraining my 
model such that each Zone is equivalent to a room, as my rooms are not 
necessarily homogeneous. In this case, I'd say a good position for a 
day-lighting reference point is the center of the area of this given 
room. Then, for the moment, the only way I see to automatically 
calculate this reference point is to take the center out of the polygon 
defined by the walls.

But maybe there is a much simpler solution that I can't "see", given 
that I'm very much a newbie w.r.t. E+. Would you have any hint on this?

Thanks in advance,
Álvaro.


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