Post date: Feb 18, 2021 5:13:5 PM
Website: https://www.ladybug.tools/honeybee.html
Source code for Grasshopper: https://github.com/ladybug-tools/honeybee-grasshopper
Download for Grasshopper: https://www.food4rhino.com/app/ladybug-tools
Honeybee supports detailed daylighting and thermodynamic modeling that tends to be most relevant during mid and later stages of design. Specifically, it creates, runs and visualizes the results of daylight simulations using Radiance, energy models using EnergyPlus/OpenStudio, and heat flow through construction details using Berkeley Lab Therm/Window. It accomplishes this by linking these simulation engines to CAD and visual scripting interfaces such as Grasshopper/Rhino and Dynamo/Revit plugins. It also serves as an object-oriented Application Programming Interface (API) for these engines. For this reason, Honeybee is one of the most comprehensive plugins presently available for environmental design.