Release Notes for Version 2.00.10
This version fixes the following problems and bugs of version
2.00:
- DXF-Converter dxfconv (converting DXF to RADIANCE
directly): POLYLINE entities were shifted to wrong location during
conversion.
- SUPERLITE: Saving of input files to disks from the user interface
was wrong in case of models not containing enclosure surfaces.
This lead to a crash when the graphical input control or the simulation
was started.
- SUPERLITE graphics: Selecting a simulation hour other than
the first in the simulation loop was not possible. Fixed now.
- SUPERLITE graphics: Graphics output was not possible for clear
sky models. Fixed now.
- SUPERLINK: Read error for plot files (sky model 2 - clear
sky with sun) fixed.
- SUPERLITE: Data for overhangs was not written correctly when
input file was saved to disk in case of multiple windows. Bug
fixed.
- SUPERLITE: For comprehensive input mode, overhang reflectance
and transmittance other than 0% was not possible to enter. Bug
fixed.
- SUPERLITE: For comprehensive input mode, display of check
box window has overhang in window dialog was wrong. Bug
fixed.
- PLINK/SUPERLITE: Location of overhangs in SUPERLITE comprehensive
input mode was wrong in case of windows with height/width >
1. Reason: PLINK does rearrangement of polygon vertices in order
to fix the local coordinate system of each surface to the longest
edge. Bug fixed: Rearrangement is supressed for all window
element types. Note that rearrangement is still performed
for all other element types.
- SUPERLITE graphics output: Data readin error for sky model
2 (clear sky with sun) in case of models with multiple clear windows
fixed.
- SUPERLITE: Output plot was not possible for weather model
<> 2 (no time loop). Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE: Changes in output graphics option dialog: if the
weather model <> 2 (no time loop), then the month/hour entries
are unavailable. If a time loop is used, then the month/hour entries
are initialized to the first month/hour in the loop automatically.
- SUPERLITE: Program crashed when an input file in wrong format
(e.g. ADELINE 1.0 format) was read in. Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE output graphics: In some cases the window projection
was not displayed correctly. Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE output graphics: Sun patch was not shown for clear
sky with sun conditions. Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE output graphics: External surfaces (enclosure_a/b)
were not taken into account during sun patch calculation. Bug
fixed.
- SUPERLITE: Reading of window type identifiers was wrong comprehensive
mode, i.e. all windows were displayed as clear windows.
Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE: Writing of enclosure obstruction data from user
interface to file was wrong in case of enclosures with more than
one surface. Bug fixed.
- SUPERLINK: Due to conversion error for exterior horizontal
illuminance, SUPERLINK reported no energy savings at all for some
model (e.g. the tutorial model). Bug fixed.
- SUPERLINK: Additional dialog box for user confirmation of
new SUPERLITE runs to prevent unwanted overwriting of files.
- SUPERLITE: In version 2.00.06 a bug has been introduced which
crashed the user interface program when the output plot for a
SUPERLITE file is started (message appears onscreen telling the
user that a file with a weird name is not found). Bug fixed.
- SUPERLITE: In the output plot program a bug has been fixed
which suppressed the plot output in case of more than 200 nodes
on the selected work surface.
- SUPERLITE: A bug in the electric lighting component has been
fixed which caused strange displays of models in the input plot.
- SUPERLITE: A bug in the electric lighting component has been
fixed: luminaires were not turned when turning the whole model
and without natural light sources the electric lighting component
was not calculated.
- SUPERLITE: Several bugs concerning the display of OUTPUT PLOTS
for locations on the southern hemisphere have been fixed.
- SUPERLINK: A bug was fixed so several reference knotes can
be typed in and will be redisplayed in the SUPERLINK-Lighting
System
- PLINK: A bug was fixed concerning the conversion of layer
codes 11xx from Scribe-Modeller-Files.
New Patch Versions
are available via WWW from the ADELINE WWW-Server at IBP.
Known Problems and Unfixed Bugs
- SUPERLITE Graphics: Plot is only possible if not more than
20 nodes are used in each axis direction on the work surfaces.
Work around: Use coarser grid (see Edit|General... dialog)
- SUPERLITE: When the accuracy parameters (node distribution)
for comprehensive models are changed within the user interface
program (via Edit|General...), the node distribution is
not changed for the surfaces. Will be fixed a.s.a.p.
Work-around: After the parameters have been changed, save them
to a parameter definition file using File|Save Parameters as...
. Re-import the SCRIBE model again using this parameter file.
Last changed: 22 November 1996 md@ibp.fhg.de