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Perform a solar analysis

Perform a solar analysis - Forma Tutorial

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Perform a solar analysis

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- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to perform a solar energy analysis. So this tool will allow us to identify the potential energy generation capabilities of the various surfaces of our building. So I'm going to zoom in a little bit on our building design here. And the first thing I want to do is check my analysis area like we've done in other videos. Currently, it is set to the site limit, which includes just the main building. And I think that's fine for this example because there really isn't much point in analyzing the energy generation capabilities of my neighboring buildings because I don't own those buildings and they're not part of our project. So I'm going to leave it limited to the site, but feel free to choose other options if you wish. And then I will go over here to Solar energy, and there's only the one button to run the analysis. Of course, there is the Help button right here if you want to learn more. So if you're curious as to what criteria it uses to analyze the…

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