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one year sun shadow range study

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nrjaware1985
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one year sun shadow range study

Hello everyone,
I'm a student in Construction and energy.
I'm looking for a solution to create a beautiful 3D solar modelisation around a building.
I've seen some interesting things in Ecotect and I'm looking for doing the same things in Revit 2017.
I've run simulation but the way of displaying the sun is not like I want.
I want to create a modelisation with multi shadow Range depending on the season or during the one year.
Something like this :

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Good Day nrjaware1985,

 

Are you looking for something like this?

Solar Study_All Monthly Shadows.PNG

The image above was created by duplicating the 3D view 12 times (In this example I wanted to see shadows on a month-per-month range. The 12 views' Solar dates were set from January to December. I chose to only show the January view's Solar path, as with all 12 view's solar path set to on, the end result got too busy with overlapping text and lines. These views were then placed on a sheet, as you can "snap" to the origin of each view. Depending on how deep you want to go into the shadow display, you might end up with a few hundred views (365 for each day of the year, as an example).

 

But yes, in Revit 2017 it can be done. (Doesn't neccessarily mean that you should, though)

http://revitrecess.blogspot.com/
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pmar8802
in reply to: nrjaware1985

Hi, did you find a good way to do it?

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ToanDN
in reply to: pmar8802

Why don't you create an Shadow Study animation that runs through the year?  I don't get how overlaying multiple shadows in one image being useful for understanding the impact.

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pmar8802
in reply to: ToanDN

Hi,
Thank you for your reply. I need to have one image that demonstrate the impact. This image is for a book, so the video does not work in this case
Thanks
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mitcon
in reply to: HermanSolomon

yes i m looking for full year shadow in one image 

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martijn_pater
in reply to: mitcon

Go to sun settings and select multi-day. edit: or do you mean something like this: https://blogs.autodesk.com/insight/user-study-revit-solar-lighting-analysis-and-reflectivity/ 

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FYI Revit 2021 has solar analysis add-on available, not sure what version you're using though: https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2021/ENU/?guid=GUID-925CBF1E-2B91-41A7-8CA8-C87F69F7BBC1

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