ClimateStudio features full parametric energy modeling via Grasshopper in Rhino. Simulations include illuminance, photovoltaics, sun paths and shadows, multizone, dynamic shading, annual glare, spatial thermal comfort, electric lighting, and natural ventilation.
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You need the latest service release of Rhino to run ClimateStudio. The trial version of Rhino won't work.
- Crashes or GPU errors can often be solved by updating your graphics card drivers.
- Update NVIDIA driver: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx
- Update AMD driver: https://www.amd.com/en/support
- If you are experiencing crashes when running the Annual Glare function, use the command CSVersion in Rhino and update CS to version 1.7 or higher.
ClimateStudio only works under Windows, and is not likely to run from a VM such as Parallels on the Mac.
- If you try to use the Site Analysis function and receive an error such as "Rhino.Runtime.NotLicensedException", this is because you are using a trial version of Rhino. Parts of ClimateStudio won't work using the Rhino trial.
- If you were using an older activation code and ClimateStudio complains about an expired license, but you can't get the activation box to appear, see Step 6 above for solution.
- If you can't get the ClimateStudio toolbars to appear, see Step 7 above for solution.
- If CS was working recently but suddenly says the license is invalid and you've already tried Step 6 above, make sure you are using a legal edu version of Rhino and not a pirated version.
Resources
- User manual
- Learning ClimateStudio
- Conceptual-level slides on daylight and energy measures within ClimateStudio
- A set of step by step slides for using an older version of ClimateStudio from the developer's courses at the University of Toronto:
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