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Daylight Analysis in Archicad?

JohnJay
Expert

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

AC27 | i7990x | RTX4070 | W10
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PB
Expert

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

AC29. Twinmotion.
16" M1 Max MacBook Pro 32GB, Apple Studio Display, MacOS 26 Tahoe
PB
Expert

One solution is proposed by Graphisoft (additional subscription)…

 

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

AC29. Twinmotion.
16" M1 Max MacBook Pro 32GB, Apple Studio Display, MacOS 26 Tahoe
Patrick M
Mentor

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.

BIM solutions and trouble shooting (self proclaimed) expert. Using Archicad 26 5002 US on Mac OS 11.5.2

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