With its interactive user interface, the Solar Tool makes the process of accurately sizing and positioning overhangs, shading devices and louvres easy. This tool helps architects, planners and building services engineers who need to consider the extent of solar penetration into buildings, overshadowing or the most appropriate means of shading a window.
The program uses a flexible, parametric model on which can be placed any number of horizontal, vertical and detached shades. You can select any date, time or location, seeing immediately the resulting shadows. As well as being able to interactively manipulate the size and shape of the model with the mouse or enter the parameters directly, you can choose to automatically optimise the size of any shades over any range of dates and times you require.
The resulting displays feature both shading and solar penetration as well as sun-path diagrams, sun angles, shade dimensions and solar tables.
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