@yariv.edery wrote:
Greetings, Sketchupppers where ever you are! Does anyone know of a plugin or extension that provide solar irradiance on geolocated 3D models?
I’m a proficient user of SketchUp for several years now and use it primarily for power generation systems design, solar power and building thermal envelope modeling.
An important part of my work is to identify the solar irradiance on a geo-located building/surface/face.
The shadows tool provides a great level of data to identify shading from obstacles, but it does not provide irradiation intensity at certain locations/positions within the geo-located model.
This is an important feature for solar power systems design and at the moment I have to use other software (mainly solar manufacturer’s proprietary software) which requires me to rebuild the 3D model and geographically locate it on the other software, and then export a PNG image with the irradiance map so it can be included in my layout documents… so a bit of a drag in time management…Any suggestions?
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