Overview
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Discover how to approach shadow studies with SketchUp. Learn how to calculate and draw solar azimuths, geolocate and reorient a massing model, animate time-lapse shadows, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Using the exercise files
- Solstices, equinoxes, and hemispheres
- Geolocating a project site
- Calculating and drawing solar azimuths
- Projecting solar altitudes
- Creating tool for azimuths and altitudes
- Geolocating a massing model in SketchUp
- Saving scenes at key times of day and year
- Determining urban site based on shadows
- Analyzing shadows cast by trees
- Integrating solar tool and massing model
- Designing an awning using the solar tool
- Animating time-lapse shadows
- Next steps
