one year sun shadow range study

[nrjaware1985]

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 :

[HermanSolomon]

Good Day nrjaware1985,

Are you looking for something like this?

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)

[Anonymous]

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

[ToanDN]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

yes i m looking for full year shadow in one image 

[martijn_pater]

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/ 

[martijn_pater]

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

[tau_oragami]

The first image was generated using ecotec analysis. That program was discontinued, however. I haven't been able to find a similar was to present a complete shadow study since.