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SketchUp: Shadow Studies

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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

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you should know
  • Using the exercise files
1. Obtaining Sunlight Angles
  • Solstices, equinoxes, and hemispheres
  • Geolocating a project site
  • Calculating and drawing solar azimuths
  • Projecting solar altitudes
  • Creating tool for azimuths and altitudes
2. Using a Massing Model to Analyze Shadows
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Scott Onstott

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