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Setting your location

Setting your location

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Setting your location

- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to begin setting up our natural lighting and we're going to start with the location of our building on the globe and the orientation of north. So doesn't matter what view you're in the first thing that we're going to do is set our location. So to get there we're going to go to the manage tab and on the project location panel we'll click the location button. Now this displays a map that you can search, this is similar to any mapping service that you use online or on your phone and all you need to do is type in the address of your project. Now you could type it in as an actual mailing address, you could type in just the city name, you could type in the longitude and latitude. So it's pretty flexible as to the input that it will accept. I'm going to type in Carpenteria California and then I will press enter to search for that location. Now in the middle of the map then it will…

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