topic Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues in Revit Architecture Forum

Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

woodstim — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 01:00:16 GMT

Hi,

Firstly, i have an issue with creating shadow diagrams. I copy the site plan several times and use `Still` in the light settings to select the day and time i want the shadow diagrams to be. This works without an issue. However, when i go to my next copied site plan and change the shadow settings, the other site plans shadows change too. Therefore i cant have individual site plans on sheets showing different shadows. Why is that?

Also, im new to rendering and when i click the render button i get something like the attached image. Can someone help with some basic settings to achieve a better rendering? Im obviously missing some major commands etc.

Thanks,

Tim.

Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

barthbradley — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 02:15:23 GMT

@woodstim wrote:
Therefore i cant have individual site plans on sheets showing different shadows. Why is that?

Huh? You can create Views with different Sun positions.

Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

woodstim — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 03:15:08 GMT

its ok thanks. Figured it out.

The key thing is to set up each shadow and have it correspond to each sheet. I wasn't setting up each shadow in the shadow settings, so it was changing every site plan.

Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

barthbradley — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 04:39:16 GMT

@woodstim wrote:
The key thing is to set up each shadow and have it correspond to each sheet.

I have no clue what this means, but I guess you do and that's what counts. Right?

Whatever. All I can say in response is: keep your pecker hard and your powder dry.

😉

Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:04:24 GMT

Your rendering appears as though the phase settings are incorrect. Try and change it to show complete.

Re: Shadow Diagrams and Rendering issues

woodstim — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 23:29:07 GMT

Thanks for your help. I meant that I hadn't set up / didn't know you had to set up each shadow in the settings, then have that correspond to the site plan for the shadows i want to show.
I was just copying the site plan several times, then selecting one of the pre set shadow settings. This would then change all the shadows in my site plans.

Tim.

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