Troubleshooting

Installation

Make sure you have Rhino 6.34 or higher.
Also, Hive needs to be running from a Windows OS. Should you have a Mac, you need to run Rhino and Hive via a virtual machine, such as “Parallels” or “VMWare”.
If you’re running on a Windows OS and the installation did not work, try the following: Navigate to your Rhino Grasshopper components folder by entering “Grasshopper folder”, followed by “components” into your Rhino command line and the correct folder will open up. If you find "Hive.Core" and "Hive.IO" files in that folder, the installation was successful. If you still can't use the Hive components, however, check on each of these .gha and .dll files with a right-click if they are locked. Make sure to add a tick on the tick-box “trust file” (or similar). If it still does not work, please contact us via e-mail ([email protected]).

General Usage

Reinstalling Hive might solve some issues, so always a good place to start!

Grasshopper SDK version / compatibility warning

Issue

You may get an warning such as "GH library components were developed against a newer minor version of Grasshopper SDK" when running in Rhino 6.

Solution

Upgrade Rhino 6 to the latest version (6.34 as of writing) as hive will be compiled against this version of the grasshopper SDK.
Use Rhino 7

Shading mask dome for solar calculations is all obstructed

Issue

The dome used for rapid solar calculations may appear all obstructed even though that is obviously not the case in the model.

Solution

Make sure that the point that the sky dome is pointing towards is placed outside of the building. Otherwise may interpret that point is inside and therefore fully obstructed.

Hive resimulates every time I look at the building parameters

Issue

When opening the building input form (hizard), the grasshopper script will re-run upon closing, which can be annoying when one wants to only look at parameters and check them frequently.

Solution

Unfortunately no real solution at the moment, we are working on it!
Workaround is to disable the HiveInputs component for now and only enable it when you want to simulate.