Helioworks

I have a multi-orientation PV system on a very curvy hillside, and I am struggling to model it successfully. Using the automatic altitude tool, I end up with 60+ orientations which is obviously too many to reasonably distribute the strings across (and obviously the software only allows 8 anyway). Is there any best practice or easy method to overcome this? Or would I need to manually adjust the different groups of tables into just 8 pitch/azimuth combinations, and position them manually? Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Please see screenshots attached.

Hello PVsyst team, I have just updated to version 7.1.0 but I have come across a problem - I can't view reports for projects that are pre-existing from older versions (7.0 and below). I can modify the system details, etc. and run simulations, but when I click Report the software does not respond, and hangs using ~15% CPU (it does not crash so there is no way to report the bug). I've created a new project with 7.1.0 and have no problem viewing the report, the problem is only with projects that were created before 7.1.0. EDIT: I've just created a new project to replicate one I had made in 7.0, but I have the same issue when I try generate a report after simulation. I think it could be to do with the shading scene image rendering? I have no issue generating a report without a shading scene. The shading scene is tables on a hill, 80MWp, with a few hundred trees.

@PVsyst team - any thoughts on this?

Dear PVsyst team, I've just updated to V6.84, and have not been able to use the slide rows function in zone editing. Every time I click the slide rows button the program hangs. The add/remove table button works fine.

Hi, Regarding zone editing, I wanted to ask if it's possible to modify the default table within Field properties, and also the selected zone parameters (pitch most importantly) to a given set of values per shading scene? Unless I'm missing something, for every zone I create within the same scene I have to re-enter the table size and pitch to what I want. With 20+ zones in large field systems, this gets quite tedious. Thanks, Steve