Generating Shadow Duration Profiles

Shadow Durations lets you create shadow duration profiles for a building. Shadow Duration Profiles show the areas that are covered in shadows at a specified interval throughout the day.

  1. If a site product is active, select the building for which you to create shadow profiles.
    1. In the Shadow Profiles dialog box, under Select Building, click the Cast shadows for input box.
    2. From the 3D area or the tree, select a building.
  2. In the Shadow Durations Profiles dialog box, under Date and Time:
    1. From the Date calendar, select a date.
    2. From the Time Zone, select the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) without accounting for Daylight Savings Time.
    3. If the date you select is during Daylight Savings Time, select the Daylight savings check box.
      The dialog box displays Sunrise time and Sunset time for the Date and Time selections.
  3. To create Shadow Duration Profiles:
    1. Enter the shadow Duration time Hours and Minutes.
    2. From Color, select the color for the shadow duration profiles.
    3. From the Precision list, select the level of precision for that shadow duration computation.

      Note: Your selection impacts the analysis time. High precision takes the longest time.

  4. Select the Generate duration labels check box to add text labels that display the length of time that the duration profile covers.
  5. Select the Generate faces check box to display shadow duration faces around the building.
  6. To generate profiles on other planes or building faces:
    1. Click the Generate profiles on input box. The value is set to xy plane by default.
    2. From the 3D area or the tree, select a plane or a building face.
  7. Click Apply to view the shadow profiles for the present settings.
  8. Click OK.