DIVA for Rhino

DIVA DAY 2017

Diva Day 2017

October 27

UC Berkeley

Register now for DIVA Day 2017! DIVA Day is an annual symposium to discuss the use of DIVA and associated environmental analysis tools in design practice, research and architectural education.

Welcome

What is DIVA-for-Rhino?

DIVA-for-Rhino is a highly optimized daylighting and energy modeling plug-in for the Rhinoceros - NURBS modeler. The plug-in was initially developed at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and is now distributed and developed by Solemma LLC. DIVA-for-Rhino allows users to carry out a series of environmental performance evaluations of individual buildings and urban landscapes including Radiation Maps, Photorealistic Renderings, Climate-Based Daylighting Metrics, Annual and Individual Time Step Glare Analysis, LEED and CHPS Daylighting Compliance, and Single Thermal Zone Energy and Load Calculations.

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Blog Posts

KPF is searching for an Environmental Performance Analyst

Posted by Mark T Nicol on August 3, 2017 at 10:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes

SOM Chicago Hiring Daylighting Specialist

Posted by karen.odoherty@som.com on November 15, 2016 at 2:58pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

IBPSA 2017 Abstracts due August 10th

Posted by Kera Lagios on July 12, 2016 at 7:42pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

Daylight and Emotion Survey

Posted by Geraldine Quek Cai Ting on April 12, 2016 at 10:25am 1 Comment 0 Likes

DIVA and HDR photography workshops at PLEA 2016 in LA (July 10 & 13)

Posted by J. Alstan Jakubiec on March 23, 2016 at 12:30am 4 Comments 0 Likes

Forum

Materials

Started by Inês Maria Mira Martinho in DIVA-Grasshopper (version 4.0). Last reply by Inês Maria Mira Martinho yesterday. 11 Replies 0 Likes

Good afternoon, I would like to know how I can export materials from (http://www.lighting-materials.com/) and use in…Continue

Diva Professional License Error !

Started by ghost_D in DIVA-Grasshopper (version 4.0). Last reply by Jon Sargent yesterday. 1 Reply 0 Likes

I purchased the Diva Professional license and placed diva.lic in the Diva folder according to the instructions in the email.However, Grasshopper's Diva components are still marked as expired. I still have to reboot my computer. What should I do?I…Continue

Perez Model

Started by Ivan Poon in DIVA-Rhino (version 4.0). Last reply by Ivan Poon on Monday. 2 Replies 0 Likes

May I ask whether the coefficients (sky clearance and brightness) of the Perez model would be adjusted when I chose a different location (weather profile)? Or only the sun hour and other climatic profiles would change if I chose a different…Continue

Maximum nodes

Started by Ivan Poon in DIVA-Grasshopper (version 4.0). Last reply by Ivan Poon on Monday. 2 Replies 0 Likes

May I ask what is the maximum number of nodes I can have for one model? Also, what is the maximum size for a node I can have? Thanks.Continue

Annual glare analysis to calculate annual DGP

Started by Niloufar in DIVA-Grasshopper (version 4.0). Last reply by Jon Sargent on Monday. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Hello,I am trying to do an annual glare analysis by defining three series that cover all the months, days and occupied hours of a year. However, it's not working and is outputting only 30 values. Is this the right way to initiate the annual glare…Continue

Error

Started by rose in DIVA-Rhino (version 4.0) on Sunday. 0 Replies 0 Likes

Hi!I’m making a simulation using DIVA, but when I click in ‘metrics’, it shows a message: “Source: Run-time error Microsoft VBScriptError: File not foundLine: 716Char: 3Code:” What I have to do for complete the simulation?Thank you.…Continue