ABHINAV CHAUHAN Posted October 3, 2020 Report Share Posted October 3, 2020 Dear PVSOL forum, I am working on a student project at Technical university of Denmark. I have to calculate solar potential for a house located in china and the house has a curved roof. However, when i try to see the object view, the PVSol is not accepting the roof and it gives an error that 'COVERABLE OBJECT REQUIRED'. I do not know how to make the PV system for a curved roof if i want it to be BIPV. I am also attaching the sketchup model and image of the house. I request you to kindly provide any help. Link for Sketch up - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gg4rN3-HSo5ZlVRfH1obZ7CqtmcuyE0U/view?usp=sharing Link for Picture - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CdOjWGD723ts95ez-lXoD4UrFOl99TUO/view?usp=sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
developer_mh Posted October 6, 2020 Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 Hi Abhinav, are you participating in the Solar Decathlon Europe? Nice to see that this competition is still running. I was also participating, in the SDE 2010 edition, with Team Berlin. What a unique time! We wish you and your team all the best! Regarding the curved roof: It is not possible, unfortunately, to place modules on curved roofs as yours. The reason is that PV*SOL is scanning the surface for flat planes, and it only finds small sections on your roof, see for example the blue highlighted area: This is too small to place a module there. You could redesign your model in Sketchup so that the roof consists of five segments only, so that they are large enough to host a module row. Hope that helps, kind regards, Martin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABHINAV CHAUHAN Posted October 6, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2020 Hey Martin, Yes our team is participating in Solar Decathlon in China in 2021 not in Europe as SD-Europe has been shifted to 2022 due to Covid-19. It is really good to know that you have been a previous participant in the event. Thank you for your help. I will check with my civil engg team how they can modify this design to suit PVSol requirements. Regards, Abhinav Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbm Posted October 7, 2020 Report Share Posted October 7, 2020 I can across a similar challenge. This might be helpful - 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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