3D Solutions

3D Software on Demand

We provide consulting for your solar energy projects in software applications that meet your needs.

If you are starting your new project with static or sun-tracking solar collectors, you can order its 3D model from us. It could be a new line of the equipment you are manufacturing, or a unique experimental installation you are working on.

The model will simulate the main functionality of your project, will include the criteria of its optimization, and will serve you for easy, reliable, and effective decision-making.

Pose a question, and our answer will come to you in the software application that will guide you during your project’s life cycle.

What? A New software application for each new project? Why?

First, not for each new project, but only for certain projects where you face some specific constraints, conditions, or problems that you would like to analyze carefully by means of our simulation software.

Second, automation and universality are common, effective methods for mass production. They can cover a significant portion of our everyday needs. But there are many situations where we need a more individual approach.

What is most frequently needed is something like just-in-time and/or just-in-place automation, something as effective as a conveyer but of a suitable scale that corresponds to the project scope and is adjusted to the user’s needs, without redundant universality. It could be called automation 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.

A Typical scenario

Let us suppose that you are installing arrays of sun-tracking PV collectors.

First, the common problem you are facing is the self-shadowing of PV modules. You can solve this problem with our Shadow Analyzer.
Second, let us suppose that the mounting scheme of your sun-tracking modules changes and becomes a little bit more specific than a general case is described in Shadow Analyzer. You can use our Products' extension service to order some specific objects from us.
Third, you would like to compare some alternative solutions under specific conditions or constraints. The alternatives appear within your project and the conditions are specific to the project as well, but you are facing this combination for the first time. You need only a few answers to some key questions, but it leads you to some long calculations. Actually, you need a simulation model of this particular situation. So it is time to contact us.
Or you would like to make a presentation of your new project, but you would like to make the presentation animated and able to display some additional features (for example, how it will look at sunrise, sunset, and when the viewpoint of the observer moves, following the Sun’s motion, etc.). So it is also time to contact us.

Example

The animated application "Solpark_SHA.exe" illustrates the Hangar object of the Solpark in Schwäbisch Hall (Germany). The application was developed for the animated presentation of the planned architectural reconstruction of the Solpark territory. Stadt Schwäbisch Hall is our customer.

DOWNLOAD Solpark_SHA.exe

Click on this link "Solpark_SHA.exe" to download the application.

First contact

First, describe the general 3D scheme of your new project. For example, do it in terms of a Shadow Analyzer scene. With the Shadow Analyzer, it could take a few minutes. If elements of your project are not standard, show them schematically by 2D/3D primitives, using the primitives as if they are bounding volumes of your objects. Also, show the specific environment, (like neighboring buildings).
Briefly describe the main critical constraints of your project (too small an area for the installation, too complex a landscape, etc.). Briefly describe the alternative variants you are going to consider and/or some characteristics you would like to visualize.
If you are not yet familiar with Shadow Analyzer, send us the information in any form. As a null-step from our side, we shall translate it into the form of a Shadow Analyzer scene and shall send the scene to you. To see the scene, you do not need to buy Shadow Analyzer. It is enough to download its free Trial version.