Thank you so much everyone for your help.
What I understood from your answers is that even if I manage to draw curved surfaces using interfaces like Design Builder or Sketchup, the surfaces would be broken into flat segments during EnergyPlus calculations. Please rectify if I am wrong.
On Thursday, 26 May 2016 12:23 AM, "Jim Dirkes jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support]" <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm pretty sure that OpenStudio / SketchUp can do that for you and am sure that DesignBuilder can do it. (They let you draw a curved surface in the interface, then carve the surface up do EnergyPlus can work with it.)
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Dru Crawley dbcrawley@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you want to have curved surfaces, you will have to subdivide them into polygons. Surfaces cannot be curved in EnergyPlus.On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:23 AM, Amrita Ghosh amritaghosh1986@xxxxxxxxx [EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hello,Can anyone tell me if it is possible to draw curved surfaces in EnergyPlus? I am trying to draw curved overhangs but there (Shading:Zone:Detailed) I can only give co-ordinates for the vertices. Please help.Thank you,Amrita Ghosh
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