Solar Studies Overview

By showing the impact of natural light and shadows on your project, solar studies yield valuable information that can help support effective passive solar design. Use solar studies to visualize how shadows from terrain and surrounding buildings affect the site, and where natural light penetrates a building during specific times of the day and year.

Sun Settings dialog

The Sun Settings dialog provides access to preset sun positions, shared sun settings, view-specific lighting settings, time intervals, and ground plane settings.