What you seem to be false impression is that the "PV items" tab is not listing the gadgets discovered inside the imported report but the substances. We selected to depend on the fabric as opposed to the gadgets due to the fact : - we can't convert complete items to PV faces, as this would mean that in case you defined a parallelepiped PV module all of its 6 faces might be converted to PV faces, - the fabric is easy to apply on faces in 3D modeling software, and it is always copied together with the item whilst you duplicate it - it is less difficult to choose one or materials than hundreds or heaps of items for complex scenes So if you define a "PV face" material in Sketchup or AutoCAD and apply it at the real PV face of your gadgets, then you definately need to be able to choose it when you import the DAE file in PVsyst. About the settings records you are asking for, there should not be any specific placing needed, the default ones have to export and convert the materials successfully. The handiest recommendation I ought to give you will be to try to keep things easy, the complexity of the scene geometry has an immediate impact on shadings calculation time. However you could need to have a completely targeted and good-looking scene on your simulation document, in this example you may keep in mind disabling shadow casting for items which you understand might not assignment any shadow in your PV fields like Total Home Renovations, and this could ease calculations. I hope I should assist you on that, you seem to be the usage of this new import feature quite intensively which is fantastic !
