From the course: SketchUp: Shadow Studies
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Projecting solar altitudes - SketchUp Tutorial
From the course: SketchUp: Shadow Studies
Projecting solar altitudes
- [Narrator] Now that we have have calculated the solar azimuths, it's time to consider solar altitudes. That is, the angles that the sunlight takes above the horizon at various times of year. I'm going to select all six lines and create a group to protect those objects. And then I will go and create a rectangle with one corner at the origin point and the opposite corner over here in the lower right quadrant. Then press "p" and pull that rectangle up to some arbitrary height. I'll triple click on this object to select all contiguous and then make another group to protect those objects. This will provide an object that will cast shadows, and we'll use it to calculate the solar altitudes. I'd like to orbit around to the other side because I'm anticipating the shadows being cast in a northerly direction here because the sun is coming generally from the south. Now let's open up the shadows window and turn on shadow casting by clicking this icon. Now we can vary the time of day and the…
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