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

Shadow Visualizer (for Windows 2000/XP/Vista)

Shadow Visualizer is a parametric CAD tool for professionals in the area of Solar Energy Engineering and Architecture.

This is the screen shot of a 3D View window (we hid toolbars to simplify the picture).

This is the screen shot of the toolbars (we minimized the field of the 3D View windows to simplify the picture).

Description

Shadow Visualizer is a parametric CAD tool for professionals in the area of Solar Energy Engineering and Architecture. Unlike most of other 3D tools, Shadow Visualizer displays not only objects themselves, but also the shadows they cast.

Shadow Visualizer visualizes shadows in 3D views for the express visual evaluations of the shadowing in the case of in-place installation of solar energy equipment. It allows to observe shadows from external objects as well as the self-shadowing of static or sun-tracking solar collector systems during a day in several seasons of the year, on any geographical latitude.

The parametric CAD features of Shadow Visualizer allows you to compose scenes, populate them with objects, change object dimensions, location, orientation, colors, and reflectivities. You can also apply textures to objects' surfaces. After all these transformations, you can save scenes in (.sa1) files.

Shadow Visualizer is a stand-alone tool. It does not depend on any other applications or any third-party packages.

See also the general description of the Shadow Analyzer Collection.

Documentation

The detailed description of all products of the Shadow Analyzer Collection is available online. It is also compiled in a single Help file "SA_Collection_Help.chm" that is designed in the HTML Help format. This file is included in each product as well as in the Trial version of each product. However, you can separately download it, using the following link:

Online "SA Collection Help"

Download "SA_Collection_Help.chm"

Trial version

The feature-limited (time-unlimited) Trial version:

DOWNLOAD "Shadow_Visualizer_TW_Setup.exe"

See the Installation instruction.

Online store

Shadow Visualizer is delivered as a self-extracting Setup installation program "Shadow_Visualizer_Setup.exe".

Online store: Shadow Visualizer