Study sunlight and shadows
cao_soleilWHEN a design decision depends on the SUN: how many hours of direct sunlight each window actually receives, where the building casts its shadow on the plot, and whether a neighbouring building or screen blocks the light. From the CAO scene, for the three dates that decide a project (21 June, 21 March, 21 December): sunrise, sunset, maximum altitude, the shadow at solar noon (area and outline), and per window the hours of sun with the first and last hour, its orientation and its azimuth. Obstacles are the building's own walls and roof plus any masques you declare. The site comes from georef (Lambert-93); without it Strasbourg is used and the answer says so. No solar gain in watts and no RE 2020 discomfort hours: those need a dynamic thermal engine.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| murs | No | Walls: plan segments extruded vertically. Every coordinate in this whole scene is in MILLIMETRES, in a single plan frame whose origin you choose — X to the right, Y upward, Z up from the floor. Keep one consistent origin across murs/boites/plan: the generators never recentre anything for you. | |
| plan | No | 2D reference lines — drawn flat, never extruded and never counted in the quantities. Use them for axes, plot limits or setting-out marks. | |
| annee | No | Optional year for the three reference dates. | |
| boites | No | Boxes (furniture, volumes): a rectangular block placed by its CENTRE, not by a corner. Millimetres, same frame as murs[]. | |
| georef | No | Optional Lambert-93 (EPSG:2154) false origin for IfcMapConversion. Local millimetres are scaled by 0.001 to CRS metres. Do not invent coordinates: omit est/nord if unknown (origin stays 0). orientation is the angle in degrees of project X from map East, counterclockwise. | |
| cercles | No | Circles on the 2D plan, alongside plan[] lines: each has a centre and a radius, in the same unit as the plan. Use for round shapes a polyline would render badly — fillets, posts, manholes. | |
| reseaux | No | Plumbing pipe runs (EF/EC/EU/EV/EP/chauffage) — used only by cao_pdf (technical plan + linear-meter quantities per type). | |
| nord_deg | No | Direction of north in the scene, in degrees clockwise from +y (0 means +y is north). | |
| toitures | No | Roofs — used only by cao_pdf. WITHOUT this field: a flat roof is auto-generated over the footprint of ALL walls (legacy default). WITH it: compose freely — each entry can target a subset of walls (via `murs`), letting you build an L-shaped building's roof, or add a dormer on top of a main roof. | |
| plomberie | No | Sanitary fixtures (sink, WC, shower…) — used only by cao_pdf. Same positioning as electricite. | |
| decoration | No | Paint/finish per wall — used only by cao_pdf. Colors the elevations (exterior face) and the axonometric view (face auto-detected by orientation relative to the building's centroid). | |
| ouvertures | No | Doors/windows embedded in a wall — used only by cao_pdf (elevations + axonometric view), no effect on dxf/metres. | |
| electricite | No | Electrical symbols (outlets, switches, lights…) — used only by cao_pdf (dedicated technical plan + quantities), no effect on dxf/metres/render. Position: attached to a wall (`mur`+`position`, like ouvertures) or free (`x`,`y`). | |
| pas_minutes | No | Optional time step of the computation, in minutes. | |
| compositions | No | Named wall/slab layer sets declared by the project. A key that matches an inferred kind (mur_exterieur, refend, cloison, plancher, toiture) or murs[].composition drops the Hypothese flag. Each value is {libelle, couches: [{cle, epaisseur?}]}. cle: enduit, bloc_beton, isolant, ba13, ossature, enduit_platre, beton_arme, tuile, charpente, etancheite. Omit epaisseur on the load-bearing layer. |