Adiabatic Surface Selector

[christophwaibel]

Feature
Adding a functionality to select rhino geometry surfaces that are supposed to be adiabatic, i.e., don't contribute to heat losses.

Expected behavior
Proposal: In the Hive Building Form, at the Surface Construction Tabs with the u-values, add a button "Select Adiabatic Surfaces". A script will start where you can select surfaces from the Hive Building Polysurface that will be treated as adiabatic henceforth (until deselected..).

As for the physics, simple: Just deduct those surface areas from the total heat loss calculation.

Screenshots

starting point

select surfaces

confirm, henceforth marked as adiabatic

[christophwaibel]

VBscript

Option Explicit
'Script written by <insert name>
'Script copyrighted by <insert company name>
'Script version Wednesday, 14 February 2024 20:50:56

Call Main()
Sub Main()


	' Prompt user to select surfaces
	Dim surfaces
	surfaces = Rhino.GetObjects("Select surfaces", 8) ' 8 corresponds to surface filter
    
	If IsNull(surfaces) Then
		Exit Sub
	End If
    
	' Loop through each selected surface
	Dim surface
	For Each surface In surfaces
		' Get the center of the surface
		Dim surfaceCenter
		surfaceCenter = Rhino.SurfaceAreaCentroid(surface)
        
		' Check if the center is valid
		If Not IsNull(surfaceCenter) Then
			' Add a text dot at the surface center
			Rhino.AddTextDot "Adiabatic", surfaceCenter(0)
		End If
	Next
End Sub