Overview Use the Solar Radiation Technology Preview for the Revit 2011 family of products to analyze the effects of solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model.
Using the Solar Radiation Analysis add-in during the conceptual design stage of your project can help you make fundamental design decisions about building shape, orientation, and surfaces early on, when changes are least costly.
The add-in uses conceptual massing elements from Revit models and the Autodesk Ecotect insolation analysis engine to calculate the distribution and availability of solar radiation hitting the surfaces of the massing shapes. Incident solar radiation on any surface of the mass can be displayed as either instantaneous hourly values or as daily, monthly, and annual totals. This is particularly useful when considering shading requirements or assessing the best areas to place photovoltaics for maximum solar collection.
This add-in works with Revit Architecture 2011, Revit MEP 2011 and Revit Structure 2011.
This technology preview is a limited term release to seek customer feedback on its performance and expires on November 5th 2010.
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