[Need advice for complex shading scene]

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.

[Cannot view reports from older versions in 7.1.0]

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.

[Zone Editing - default table]

@PVsyst team - any thoughts on this?

[Zone editing - slide rows broken (V6.84)]

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.

[Zone Editing - default table]

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