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    <p>Manfred,</p>
    <p> I believe that the requirement for convex zones only applies to
      using the detailed radiation mode to deal with the interior
      radiation exchange. In other words I think it applies only to the
      *.vfm file and not to the *.shm file since the *.shm file deals
      with shading on the outside of the building. Please someone
      correct me if I am wrong about that.</p>
    <p>kind regards,</p>
    <p> David</p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/11/2021 04:41, Manfred Schindler
      via TRNSYS-users wrote:<br>
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            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hello
            everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB">I use trnsys3D to import to TRNBuild and I have
            a few shading objects. In the existing model I just used
            shading factors from PHPP, only differencing between summer
            and winter. Now I want to have more detailed shading factors
            and want to use the shading matrix (shm) but as I read in
            the documentations I need convex zones for it. Or is it
            working with concave zones, if I just use the detailed
            radiation model for the beam radiation distribution (and for
            the diffuse radiation distribution and the longwave
            radiation exchange within a zone the standard models)? As
            far as I can see the geometry of a zone is indifferent for
            the shm-File – isn’t it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB">If it really does not work like that, my idea
            was to build up the same 3D-Modell but with only fictitious
            concave zones, so I could get the shading factors in the
            shm-file. Is there any type I can use to read the shm-matrix
            into my simulation with the concave zones?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB">Big thanks in advance!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB">Manfred Schindler</span><span
            style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"
            lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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