Set the Normal and Solar Scale fields in the main console and press the button in the viewer to view the cloud as a mesh. A colored sphere and normal vector will be generated according to the orientation of each triangle of the mesh relative to the Sun vector. The Sun position is set in the Solar Calculator by entering the geographic location, date and time.

The sphere radius is the value specified in the Solar Scale field and the normal vector length is derived from the Normal field. The Opacity field set the level of transparency for the spheres (0 = Transparent to 1 = Opaque)

• Panel Curvature Analysis
• Viewing the Reference Point-Cloud
• Reference Point-Cloud
• Sven Muentel’s Concept Painting Created with ParaCloud GEM
• ParaCell Output Component Type

1. solar exposure analysis is very useful, but the result is limited to one particular time and date. is there a way to analyse a surface over a period of time?

   Posted by Helen | March 29, 2008, 3:27 pm

2. Helen, i was wondering the same thing. has anyone been able to address this issue?

   Posted by jlaucks | March 30, 2008, 10:30 pm

3. The solar exposure is calculating the direction of each panel relative to the sun vector.

   It does not calculate any shading - so if you want a full solar study I can suggest creating a DXF output from the surface panels, and open it with EcoTect. Run the solar analysis and extract the results as a matrix back to ParaCloud. We plan to add this integration in a future release. If you need help with the process of using EcoTect, please contact me. Eyal

   Posted by eyal | March 31, 2008, 8:12 am