Canopy Design

[Muhammad Muneeb Safdar]

How I can draw canopy in PV*Sol? Drawing a building is pretty easy but I'm unable to draw a canopy in PV*Sol.

[timgreen13]

hi

it will be much easier for you to draw it in sketchup and import it in to PVSOL

 

ilia

[developer_mh]

Hi Muhammad,

like timgreen said, the best way to go is to model it in another 3D application like Sketchup and import it then. A canopy like this is not possible with the built-in 3D design tools of PV*SOL.

Kind regards,

Martin

[Frido]

Hi Muhammad,

Is the fact that it does not have any walls that important to you?
For 95% of our projects, the only important thing is that the roof area is depicted correctly. So if I had to the depict the gas station seen in the picture I’d just go ahead with a flat roof building. I have found that it is much faster to do this way, & less prone to errors compared to using a 3D model. I try to avoid using 3D models whenever possible, as they have often caused issues.

Regards,
Frido

[Muhammad Muneeb Safdar]

Thank you for your advice. But my main concern is about shading. I want to analysis the effect of shading on near buildings/roofs.