jamesbm Posted February 8, 2019 Report Share Posted February 8, 2019 As it's Friday I thought it would be nice to share an interesting PVSOL challenge and 2 solutions. I am working on a curved building with a curved roof. solution 1: modelled in SketchUp with measured flat sections on roof to place panels - this looks pretty but took ages to get curved roof to meet curved walls. Solution 2: built in PVSOL 3D design, multiple 2m wide single pitch buildings (lots of trigonometry) - this will be more flexible for small adjustments in roof pitch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
developer_mm Posted February 11, 2019 Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 Wow, nice project. But I guess both projects took a while to create. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbm Posted February 11, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2019 Yes! About 4 hours on the SketchUp imported version and 2 hours on the PVSOL only version. The PVSOL version I spent more time working out the height of each building in Excel than building it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbm Posted May 17, 2019 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2019 Just to finish this off - the project is now complete. Drone image courtesy of Perfect Sense Energy. What a beauty! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Etinergy Posted June 19, 2019 Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 @jamesbm Please how did you curve the roofs on PVSOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbm Posted June 19, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2019 @Etinergy You can't do a genuinely curved roof in PV*SOL. You need to have multiple buildings with a single pitched roof. The other way is to model it in Sketchup then import it. If you are using Sketchup I would suggest you flatten sections with the width of 1 or 2 panels. If you import a curved roof I think PV*SOL will approximate it with multiple flat sections but you will end up with gaps between panels. It is quite hard work but you end up with something quite impressive. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghassan.allow Posted August 7, 2022 Report Share Posted August 7, 2022 Hi Nice project and great what you did. Now I am facing almost same challenge and don't know how to make the 3d building at pvsol , need some advice and more information how to do that , as will what calculation need to do at excel ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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