cadmovie199 – Solar Study Part 5
Setting the sun position
Setting the sun position
Sending the 3D objects to sit on the surface of the site model.
You can draw the building using the standard VectorWorks techniques for drawing walls, adding doors and windows and creating roofs, but if you are at an early stage of the project you could use spaces for the project to get a very fast result.
Creating the Site model. The important difference with solar studies is you need a larger area of site model. Normally when you get a site survey, you only get the site you are working on. For a solar study you need the surrounding area as well because you want to…
Vectorworks has a built-in solar animation command.