Generating Shadow Profiles

Shadow Profiles lets you create shadow profiles for a building. Shadow Profiles show the building shadow profiles between specified start and end times at a specified interval throughout the day.

  1. In the Shadow Profiles dialog box, under Date and Time:
    1. To change the date, click the calendar and select the date.
    2. From Time Zone, select the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) without accounting for Daylight Savings Time.
    3. If the selected date is during Daylight Savings Time, select the Daylight savings check box.
  2. In the Shadow Profiles dialog box, under Shadow Profiles:
    1. Enter the Start time Hours and Minutes of shadow profiles.
    2. Enter the End time Hours and Minutes of shadow profiles.
    3. Enter in Interval Hours and Minutes, the frequency that you want the system to generate shadow profiles between the start and end time.
  3. From Color, select the color of the shadow profiles.
  4. To add text labels for the shadow profiles, select Generate labels. The text label is attached to a shadow profile and indicates the time of day for which the profile is drawn.
  5. To generate profiles on other planes, building faces, planar surfaces, nonplanar surfaces, or terrains:
    1. In the Shadow Profiles dialog box, under Shadow Profiles, 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, building face, planar surface, or nonplanar surface.

      Important: To generate a profile on a terrain, select the polyhedral body that was created from the terrain.

  6. Click Apply to update the shadow profiles for the present settings.
  7. Click OK.