Shade Tracking Plugin
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Hello,
I'm trying to do a sun study on a property for use with solar panels. There are a few trees around the property. Currently, I am entering the times of the year that the shadows cover the roof into an excel file manually. Is there a plugin that could simulate this throughout the year and spit out an excel or note file?
Arslan
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WHat exactly would go into the excel file? Just the dates and times?
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Yes, the date and time that the area is shaded. Maybe even the percentage that a roof would be shading for that paticular time?
Arslan
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Sketchup doesn't keep track of the area in shadow. Its a visual study only. So you could export images that show the shadows, but you can't export a text file with the shaded area in sq ft/sq meters unfortunately.
You could export 100 images over the course of a single day and then overlay all those photos in photoshop to create a shade study of a single day and the darker the area = the more time it spent in the shade. If that is interesting, there is a thread here on the forum that discusses the idea and shows how to do it. I'll try to find it.
Chris
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Ok, here's a shade tracking plung (which I've never used, so I don't exactly how it works or what it does):
And here is a post where I quickly explain the process and post an image:
(look for my post with a shadow study with a blue and red ball and abench and some shadows.
Hope that begins to help,
Chris
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Thanks Chris
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