From the course: SketchUp: Shadow Studies
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Creating tool for azimuths and altitudes - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp: Shadow Studies
Creating tool for azimuths and altitudes
- [Instructor] In this video we're going to bring together the azimuth and altitude information that we've created previously, and we'll create a solar tool that brings all of this together. It will help us to more easily visualize the way that sunlight illuminates the project site. Let's begin by drawing a circle centered at the origin point of the azimuths. I'll make it some arbitrary size, perhaps 2,000 feet in this particular scale. And then I'll type 64S enter to specify a circle with 64 sides. I'm just doing that so that the circle is nice and smooth. Then I will go to the selection tool by pressing the space bar. Select the azimuths, right click, and choose explode. Now the azimuth lines are in the same modeling context as the circle. I can then select these individual lines that pass beyond the circle and delete them. I'd also like to turn off the terrain snapshot. So I'll go to window, layers, or expand layers in the default try in the Windows operating system, and uncheck…
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