translate

honeybee-ies translate

Commands for translating Honeybee JSON files to and from IES files.

honeybee-ies translate [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

gem-to-model

Translate an IES GEM file to a HBJSON model.

Args:

gem-file: Full path to an IES VE GEM file.

honeybee-ies translate gem-to-model [OPTIONS] GEM_FILE

Options

-n, --name <name>

Deprecated option to set the name of the output file.

-f, --folder <folder>

Deprecated option to set the path to target folder.

-o, --output-file <output_file>

Optional HBJSON file path to output the HBJSON string of the translation. By default this will be printed out to stdout.

Default:

'-'

Arguments

GEM_FILE

Required argument

model-to-gem

Translate a Model JSON file to an IES GEM file.

Args:

model_file: Full path to a Model JSON file (HBJSON) or a Model pkl (HBpkl) file.

honeybee-ies translate model-to-gem [OPTIONS] MODEL_FILE

Options

-st, --shade-thickness <shade_thickness>

Optional value for shade thickness in meters. This value will be used to extrude shades with no group id. IES doesn’t consider the effect of shades with no thickness in SunCalc. This function extrudes the geometry to create a closed volume for the shade.

Default:

0

-n, --name <name>

Deprecated option to set the name of the output file.

-f, --folder <folder>

Deprecated option to set the path to target folder.

-o, --output-file <output_file>

Optional GEM file path to output the GEM string of the translation. By default this will be printed out to stdout.

Default:

'-'

Arguments

MODEL_FILE

Required argument