Solar energy engineering and architecture

3D Solar Software for your solar project, solar collectors shading, complete site analysis of your local architecture conditions and climate characteristics, and more ...

Avoid shadows on solar collectors and protect your solar investments. Explore the solar energy potential of your site and optimize your solar project according to your local architecture conditions and regional climate characteristics. Use our 3D Solar Software Shadow Visualizer or Shadow Analyzer for solar engineering and solar architecture, try it for free, order it from online stores.

Use our Software Development Services for complex and innovative solar projects with new types of solar equipment. Our solar software is customizable due to its flexible inner architecture. Pose a question, and our answer will come to you in the software application that will guide you during your project’s life cycle.

And yet ... you can use our simplified parametric CAD tools 3D Message or 3D Draw Shadows merely for everyday 3D drawing, 3D modeling, and 3D messaging. Start from our free product 3D Message Free to make sure how easy CAD can be.

Shadows on solar collectors

To avoid the solar collectors shading and protect your solar investments, visualize shadows on your solar collectors with our 3D solar software Shadow Visualizer.

Shadow visualization error-proofs your solar project. It helps you to refine the placement of your solar PV-panels and solar thermal collectors and to keep the high efficiency of your solar investments. It protects you from any little unobvious mistakes that are not apparent immediately but can become substantial in a long-term prospect.

Our solar software Shadow Visualizer makes this necessary step as evident and intuitive as possible. It visualizes shadows on solar collectors of any configuration within any architecture environment, for any geographical latitude in both hemispheres, for any season, and time of a day. It takes into account all the architectural details of your particular site: the configuration and orientation of your own building, the presence of surrounding buildings, and even the landscape shape and growing trees.

Home users do not need to be professionals in the solar engineering to detect possible shadows on their solar collectors and to find the best position for solar panels with Shadow Visualizer.

For the professionals, shadow visualization is a quick and effective method to avoid the solar panels shading within simple static or complex sun-tracking solar collector arrays. Moreover, Shadow Visualizer installed on your laptop is also a marketing tool for your contacts with potential customers. Colored pictures from the 3D View window of Shadow Visualizer showing how you prevent the solar collector shading highly improve the impression from your solar project proposals, make them more consistent and clear, and assure your clients in the reliability of your project.

Whether you are a homeowner or a homebuilder, a solar architect or a professional installer of solar photovoltaic and solar thermal equipment, Shadow Visualizer will help you to make your solar project 100% reliable. It helps to avoid both energy and money losses, and decreases the actual investment-return time length.

Note that you can use Shadow Visualizer also for many other tasks that are associated somehow with the solar radiation or solar light in architecture, solar design, and even in your everyday practical life.

And yet, do not forget that you can upgrade from Shadow Visualizer to Shadow Analyzer at any moment visiting our website again. 

Order now ...   Shadow Visualizer is delivered as a downloadable self-extracting Setup installation program "Shadow_Visualizer_Setup.exe". You can also add the Backup CD to your order on the order page.

Click on the name of one of the following two online stores to order Shadow Visualizer 

from  SWREG  for € 99, or from  SHARE-IT  for $ 124.

Try before to buy ...   To make sure that Shadow Visualizer meets your needs, download the feature-limited, time-unlimited Trial version -- a self-extracting Setup installation program "Shadow_Visualizer_TW_Setup.exe".

Read more ...   Go to the Shadow Visualizer page, or find and read the chapter "Your Solar Project" either in the detailed online documentation "SA Collection Help" or in the downloadable HTML Help file "SA_Collection_Help.chm".

Site analysis for your solar project

Explore the solar energy potential of your site and optimize your solar project with our 3D solar software Shadow Analyzer. Analyze your particular site including its local architecture conditions and regional climate characteristics.

Shadow visualization is good but the complete site analysis is better. Our solar software Shadow Analyzer includes all features of Shadow Visualizer and has much more options for the optimization of your solar project. It not only visualizes shadows on solar collectors, but it also measures their energy weights. It expresses in graphs and tables the daily, monthly, and yearly profiles of many useful energy characteristics of the solar equipment from the daily energy losses associated with shading of individual solar panels to the annual energy yield of the entire solar installation. It provides you with the complete site analysis for your solar project including both the local architecture conditions of your particular site and the general climate conditions of your region.

Home users can easily estimate the solar energy potential of their roofs, walls, and any other free surfaces of their houses and gardens with Shadow Analyzer.

Professionals in the area of solar energy engineering and solar architecture can discover many hidden potential reserves to improve the productivity of the same set of solar PV-panels and solar thermal collectors under particular local conditions with Shadow Analyzer.

Whether you are a homeowner searching for the best orientation of a simple solar collector according to your local geographical latitude and seasonal variation of solar radiation at your particular site, or you are a solar engineer considering a sophisticated problem of the economically optimal configuration of a complex sun-tracking solar collectors array for a large-scale solar PV power plant, Shadow Analyzer will help you to find the proper solution. 

Order now ...   Shadow Analyzer is delivered as a downloadable self-extracting Setup installation program "Shadow_Analyzer_Setup.exe". You can also add the Backup CD to your order on the order page. 

Click on the name of one of the following two online stores to order Shadow Analyzer 

from  SWREG  for € 199, or from  SHARE-IT  for $ 249.

Try before to buy ...   To make sure that Shadow Analyzer meets your needs, download the feature-limited, time-unlimited Trial version -- a self-extracting Setup installation program "Shadow_Analyzer_TW_Setup.exe".

Read more ...   Go to the Shadow Analyzer page, or find and read the chapter "Your Solar Project" either in the detailed online documentation "SA Collection Help" or in the downloadable HTML Help file "SA_Collection_Help.chm".

Our Products: the Shadow Analyzer Collection for Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Each product is a stand-alone tool that does not depend on any other applications or any third-party packages. Usually you need only one product -- so chose one below or go to the Shadow Analyzer Collection page.

3D Tools for Solar Energy Engineering and Architecture

Avoid shadows on solar collectors, explore the solar energy potential of your site and optimize your solar project.

•   Shadow Visualizer -- a CAD tool with the visualization of natural shadows that the objects cast during a day

•   Shadow Analyzer -- an advanced CAD tool for professionals in the area of Solar Energy

3D Tools for Everyone for Everyday

Ideal helpers for anyone who likes to illustrate an idea or an explanation easily and quickly by 3D drawing.

•   3D Message -- a simple 3D drawing tool for everyday 3D communications and 3D messaging [shadows only on the plane landscape]

•   3D Draw Shadows -- a 3D drawing tool with shadow effects on all objects

Free Software for Beginners

Start from 3D Message Free to make sure how easy CAD can be. It is the practical introduction to the 3D interface of the Shadow Analyzer Collection. Learn how to use 3D primitives and other parametric objects to compose 3D scenes. The installation package of 3D Message Free contains the full documentation for all products of the collection.

•    3D Message Free -- a simple 3D tool for beginners [without the texture management]

Our Services

Software Development Services

We can develop custom versions of our software products for you

•   3D Objects -- the products' extension service. We can develop new types of 3D objects for your specific tasks, and integrate them into your custom version of our software.

•   3D Solutions -- 3D Software on demand. Remember how many times you dreamed of adding one more button to the user interface of the software you were working with, or adding one more window where some additional characteristics of your project could be displayed? Our 3D Software on demand service does just this for you.

•   3D Research -- software for Solar Concentrating Technologies. We provide Research and consulting for solar furnace and solar power plant projects by the parallel (incremental and iterative) development of software for visualization, optimization, project management, and productivity forecasts.

Contact Information

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