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Perform a microclimate analysis

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Perform a microclimate analysis

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to continue with our analysis, and I'm going to move on to Microclimate. So Microclimate assesses the perceived comfort level in various areas on your site, and it takes into account various things like the sun and the wind and so on. So we're going to expand our selection area initially here. So right now, it's just focused on my building, so I'm going to expand that out to the zone, and then I'm going to come over here and click on the Microclimate analysis. So this also uses a radius situation, which is similar to what we saw with the Wind analysis. And the reason I switched to the zone is 'cause I wanted to recenter that radius more in the center of the site as opposed to having a big chunk of it out on the river. I'm not really too concerned about analyzing much of the river area, so that's why I did that. Just like we saw with the Wind analysis, you can use this to increase or decrease the radius. I'm going to leave it set to the…

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