topic Create a heat map for solar analysis in Sustainable design

Create a heat map for solar analysis

Yvonne — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 05:58:19 GMT

Is there a plugin that would allow us to create heat maps in Archicad? to produce a solar/shadow analysis similar to what sun hours and shadow analysis extensions for sketchup do? unfortunately these extensions don't work with the latest sketchup so we're not able to use it.

Re: Create a heat map for solar analysis

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 04:29:22 GMT

I recalled seeing such heatmaps being created in Grasshopper with one of its available plug-ins, I think it was Ladybug or something:

https://www.ladybug.tools/#:~:text=Ladybug%20Tools%20has%20been%20downloaded%20more%20than%20500%2C000,creation%2C%20simulation%2C%20and%20visualization%20happen%20within%20one%20interface.

Re: Create a heat map for solar analysis

jimifacio — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 15:43:22 GMT

Hi Yvonne,

I would love to be able to do this natively in ArchiCAD too, have you now found a way?

If not, which SketchUp plugin did you use on the pasted image in your post?

Thank you!

Re: Create a heat map for solar analysis

Yvonne — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:02:33 GMT

We used Grasshopper instead as Laszlo suggested. The one we used to use is Shadow Analysis