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Alexander Matthias Jacobson edited this page Feb 19, 2019 · 3 revisions

Ladybug and Honeybee run inside of Rhino, and LB and HB work in tandem with one another, so it is necessary to install all three for working in Honeybee. Ladybug and Honeybee are plugins for Grasshopper, so if you are working in Rhino 5, you must also install Grasshopper first. Grasshopper is included in Rhino 6.

You can find further instructions for installing the software here: Installation instructions.

The energy balance shown above is not actually normalized by floor area, rather it's the totals. At least in the example file these results are shown when the "modelEnergyBalance" output from the Energy balance component is connected to the Average data and Monthly Chart components respectively

Table of Contents

Honeybee Wiki Home

Intro I - Installing Honeybee

Intro II - Grasshopper Interface

Intro III - Honeybee Interface

Intro IV - EnergyPlus Modeling Assumptions

Intro V - Conventions and Code Hygiene

Intro VI - Contributing to Honeybee Wiki!

Single Zone Model

Single Zone Model Home

Step 0 - Modeling Zone Geometry

Step 1 - Assign Properties to Zones

Step 2 - Simulation Setup

Step 3 - Run the model

Step 4 - Visualize the results

Step 5 - Iterating to improve design

Comparing Passive Strategies

Compare Passive Strategies Home

Passive 0 - Comfort Models

Passive 1 - Materials - High Performance Window

Passive 2 - Geometry - Shade

Passive 3 - Equipment - Lighting

Passive 4 - Ventilation - Open Windows

Passive 5 - Schedules - Night Flushing

Topics

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Custom Schedules

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