topic Re: Daylight Analysis in Archicad? in Sustainable design

Daylight Analysis in Archicad?

JohnJay — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 13:33:57 GMT

Is it possible to do Daylight Analysis natively in Archicad?

I have Octane Render too if that helps?

Surely all the data is there and just needs to be extracted?

Operating system used: Windows

Re: Daylight Analysis in Archicad?

PB — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:26:58 GMT

Very pertinent question - sad that there appears to be no means to extract a Daylight Analysis directly from the model in Archicad

Re: Daylight Analysis in Archicad?

PB — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 11:53:01 GMT

One solution is proposed by Graphisoft (additional subscription)…

https://www.graphisoft.com/partner-solutions/lightstanza/

Re: Daylight Analysis in Archicad?

Patrick M — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:20:10 GMT

you can set date/time, and if your project location and north are accurate, you can get accurate sun studies from archicad; but in terms of getting area/volume/etc. calcs, I don't thin theres a tool for that.
I have used archicad to produce ResCheck/ComCheck, just extracting areas/glazing/etc.; and I've used it to present solstice studies on relevant elevations. But nothing that is going to tabulate actual spread sheets.