AftabRad Revit Add-in Prerequisite: Turning on the SectionBox

To achieve acceptable results within an acceptable time, Radiance, like any other energy simulation software, needs an acceptable range of complexity. As a general rule in this add-in, those elements will only be exported that are visible in the current 3D view. Therefore, all those different methods that can hide elements in the current view works as a simplification method in this add-in. One of these methods is using SectionBox.

Therefore, AftabRad Add-in always asks to turn on the SectionBox, for two reasons. The first is to prevent exporting elements that are far away from the interested area in the model. The second is to use the SectionBox as bounding cube to apply as Zone variable in the Rif file when simulating view images.