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Analyze the model for solar access

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Analyze the model for solar access

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- [Instructor] So what I want to show here is that we've got the ability to turn on and off different objects. What I'm trying to evaluate is how are these solar panels providing energy for a swimming pool that's here? So what I've got in my browser here is the option to have solar panels shown as pitched modeled on that layer, or flat, assigned to that layer for visibility purposes. So if I turn off the flat and turn on the pitched, what I can do is from sun and shadows, solar analysis, I get the option of doing year cumulative, or monthly peak. And I can just pick objects, let's do year cumulative, and I'm going to pick the faces of these, I'm picking the faces of these tilted panels, and then I say analyze, or click on analyze. Then I get the results with how many kilowatts per square meter. And I can see that for the year as a whole, this is not so efficient, right? And it's getting better as I get away from the…

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