How solar exposure calculator is supposed to be used?
All I can get is just nice image with legend without any tools to do some kind of analysis.
How to calculate how much total kwh for example a roof receives? It would be really helpful to measure direct and indirect illumination for installing solar panels. Seems like another abandoned and half-done tech by Bentley or I am missing something.
Hi,
The solar exposure tool can do this and output the information to a spread sheet but it needs weather data for calculating these results. The help can guide you through this.
Paul
And how to analyze this spreadsheet? I need to sum all triangles by hand? Impossible as need visually select only roof.
Weather file is not needed can input constant 1000w/m2.
With weather file got this strange result. Maybe issue was that tried to generate again using existing "Solar Exposure mesh" and not from original. Also mesh is not selectable in Solar view (version U16.3):
Found out that the popup was missing. Seems upgrade to 16.3 caused this. After -restoredefaults everything is back to normal.
Can these values be accessed by VBA?
Created a VBA macro(attached) which imports mesh from CSV. Each triangle has an item attached with values.
import-Solar.mvba