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This week 11 students of different ages (10-17) participated in our three-day summer school for the Engineering Energy Efficiency project. They were charged with using Energy3D to design their own model houses on a computer first and…
Energy3D is a free, open-source tool we are developing from scratch to empower students to design, make, and test energy-efficient model houses.Today we had some students design and make their own houses. One student succeeded in designing a model h…
The virtual heliodon of Energy3Din action.According to Wikipedia, “a heliodon is a device for adjusting the angle between a flat surface and a beam of light to match the angle between a horizontal plane at a specific latitude and the solar beam. Heliod…
Figure 1: Designing a building withEnergy3D.We have come close to release an alpha version of Energy3D, a computational building science laboratory for simulating energy flow and designing energy efficiency. This program will allow you to design a buil…
Google SketchUp is a wonderful program that you can use to design 3D structures such as a building WYSIWYG-ly. It offers by far the most advanced user interface for creating 3D objects. Within ten minutes, you can sketch up a simple house with a roof,…