I have a facade with some windows and some shaders so I would like to calculate the amount of sun casting on the windows. The problem is that when I try to insert the autocad block into the vasari I get a message "Some ACIS objects could not be imported. To import them, use AutoCAD to convert them into polymesh objects and reimport.".
I tried to explode them, it did not work. I tried to duplicate and create surfaces on the existing drawing so as to import them, it did not work.
I was thinking just to draw from the beginning this window and its shaders into the vasari but i find it complex to work with... Maybe I should do it firstly in the autocad using polylines and then extrude them??
i think i made some progress.. i drew it into the autocad and then i imported it into the vasari changing the scale to 10.
1. does it change the dimensions of the imported object or is it only for viewing purposes?
2. now that i inserted the objects in vasari, it does not allow me to select the surfaces in which i am interested so that i can do the solar analysis........ when i try to explode it, it just disappears...
Moreover when i designed something easy just to test the insert option it really does insert it into the vasari but it is so small i barely can see it. How could we solve this?