Release Notes for Version 2.00.08

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.
• RADLINK: A bug was fixed so that the worksurface data will be read and rewritten when *.rif file are handled.
• SUPERLINK/RADLINK: The holiday-file dialog has been altered. Holiday files can be edited from the dialog now. Please be aware that the saved holiday file only is the handeled program parameter, so save the file after changing the holiday list contens.
• RADLINK/SUPERLINK: A bug was fixed concerning file selection of the holiday file.
• RADLINK: A bug was fixed so multiple nodes can be selected for calculation know.
• RADLINK: The function of the OK button within the RADLINK options/site definition dialog was fixed.
• SUPERLINK: SUPERLINK files used to link the last SUPERLITE file which was created when importing the Scribe Model. When saving the *.src file with a new name this link was kept, thus no changes were saved when changing the SUPERLITE options after opening such a file. Now the correct link to the *.in file is saved..
• RADLINK : major bug fix concerning file handling and calibration of data
• PLINK : default options were changed: no abiente light (-av 0.0 0.0 0.0) is used for calculations and one abient bounce (-ab 1) is used for low quality caculation.
• RADLINK : The number of abiente bounces can be set even for the low quality calulations.
• SUPERLITE/SUPERLINK the parameter file is now including all SUPERLINK informations
• RADLINK : Patch for file handling and calculation when shading type is set to 'none'.

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.