Honeybee Intermezzo 1: How to prepare your Rhino geometry
Before moving on to using your geometry so as to create the Honeybee model for the analysis, you should pay attention to the following aspects.
1. Make sure that each of the input Rhino Surfaces or Meshes is a unique entity and that they are not joined together into one big mesh or polysurface. If this is the case, you can use the Explode command in Rhino to separate them. This is important in order to be able to use them separately throughout the script (e.g. to assign different attributes).
2.Regarding the windows and doors, you will need to have the openings and the wall faces where the openings are applied to as separate entities
(BUT in the same position in the model as they are supposed to be. The blow-out illustration on the left is only for explanatory purposes!).
Specifically, the wall surfaces/meshes should always be full, without holes, as if there was no opening in them. Even if in your model one side is only glazing, in Honeybee you will firstly use it as if it was a complete wall surface and the glazing will be applied to it in a later stage.
What can go wrong?
Although each surface/mesh should be separated, it is obligatory that all the input wall, floor and roof ceiling Rhino Surfaces or Meshes, if composed together, are creating a complete closed volume. Otherwise, running the daylight simulation will generate light leaks and result in false results. This is why you will see errors in your script and the Honeybee model will fail to be created.
