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Sun and Shadow analysis

How can we analyze sun and shadow around buildings in urban areas? In this video, Dr. Ico Broekhuizen explains how this can be done in Revit.

Autodesk Revit makes it easy to visualize sun and shadows around buildings for different locations around the world and for different times of the year and the day. In this video, Dr. Ico Broekhuizen will show you how to do this and how to export the results to an image editing program for further editing.

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