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Calculating average sun vectors in Ladybug

Calculating average sun vectors in Ladybug

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Calculating average sun vectors in Ladybug

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- I'd like to plan for placing a solar panel on the roof of my house and since it's not in the sunniest climate, I need to make sure I have the placement of the panel mounts in just the right orientation to catch the most sun. I'd like to use my sun path setup to get the average sunlight vector from a year's worth of sun positions. Starting in Rhino, I've got the file ladybug-sunpath.3dm open and I'll go ahead in the layers panel and just turn on this solar panel layer. You can see that's the side of the roof I'm thinking about mounting that solar panel on. In Grasshopper, I've got the file 0080-ladybug-sunpath-setup-finish.gh open and we'll use that as a starting point. I'm going to add a step to my algorithm here, right at the end, and I'll just make a note of that with a panel, where we get the average sun position vector. We'll come back and tackle that later on. Before we do that though, I need to adjust my analysis period so that it's pulling sunlight position values for an…

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