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Analyzing light and shadow

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Analyzing light and shadow

- You may have opportunities to leverage the accurate sun model in InfraWorks for performing detailed sun and shadow studies. Let's explore how a storyboard can be a useful tool for illustrating how the sun interacts with your model. I've opened the Chapter 7 Hotel Lynda model and I've also set the Chapter 7 Proposal as my current proposal. For the Bookmark, I'll choose Hotel Plan and then zoom out a bit so that we can see this agricultural area to the northeast of our hotel. Let's imagine that someone has raised a concern that the shadows cast by the hotel are going to rob this agricultural area of precious sunlight. Somebody has raised this concern and we want to do an analysis to either prove or disprove that this is taking place. To do this we are going to actually create a storyboard. To access the Storyboard Creator I want to click the Presentation icon and then click Storyboard Creator on the toolbar. I've got a storyboard already here that hasn't been filled out, so I'll just…

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