How can I model shading for PV?

I'll add them to a new topic, where I can press the attach button, with the same title.

The words "emailing me" in my Reply #5 should be a link you can use to email me. My email address is sam dot support at nrel dot gov.

Best regards,
Paul.

Paul,

One idea for an easy way to integrate with Sketchup would be to import the 3DS file from sketchup and just treat every object in the file as something that casts a shade. Then you could draw the active surfaces directly in SAM. This wouldn't be perfect, but it would be a good step in the right direction.

This guy might be a good person to reach out to, as he is clearly already well on his way to generating shading analysis data in Sketchup.

extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/shadow-analysis

David

Dear Paul;
I think Rick's idea and recommendation is very good.
I am also a SketchUp Make 2017 user (personal use).
I sometimes need 3D on this part of my life.
If the SAM developers and the SketchUp developers integrate these software packages effectively and productively for many activities, tasks and works, I think, most of the users like I do, will love alot these tools.
They can help me alot for my CSP, PV and CPV research studies.
Best Regards
Burak Omer Saracoglu

Thank you for that feedback, David and Burak.

Best regards,
Paul.