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SUNEYES
Design
In some circumstances, we will be required to complete a Suneyes assessment for the design instead of the aurora shade report. This tutorial will give you a basic rundown of how to do it.
1 | DOWNLOADING SUNEYES DATA
1 | DOWNLOADING SUNEYES DATA
Locate the suneyes session in the SS Suneyes Google Drive folder
Ctrl + F to make the process more simple
Download the entire parent folder
This will have all the data files and the scripts to make it work in in the suneyes software.
Do not rename the folder or any of the files inside. The script is relying on all files sharing the same naming convention.
Occasionally this will result in issues if there are special characters directly next to the customer's name in the naming convention (i.e. "Saldon Davis2")
When this is the case, revise the folder name to only contain the customer name.
Note that you will also need to ensure that the .son file in the folder has the same name.
It will appear as a zip folder download.
Move the parent folder to the desktop.
Open the session by clicking browse once you’ve opened the Solmetric Suneye application.
Change the “Look in” location to Desktop if it is not already the default.
Select the project session you are working on.
2 | COMPLETE SUNEYES RENDERING
2 | COMPLETE SUNEYES RENDERING
Navigate to Skyline and hit Browse to access each suneye.
Double click into the first suneye to begin editing.
The yellow represents areas of unobstructed light.
The green represents light obstructions such as structures and trees.
The surveyors do not correct the default shading data that is generated by the suneye, so it will not be completely accurate
A lot of times, suneyes thinks the sun is an obstruction
Depending on exposure, it could miss some obstructions such as part of the roof on the left.
First, color over all the existing obstructions marked by suneye. We will start fresh.
The easiest way is to first minimize the window as the size of the cursor will stay the same size in the window. This allows you to cover more area per brush stroke
Use the Yellow brush to do this.
This step is optional but preferred. You could also choose to clean up the existing capture, but be extra careful.
The easiest way is to minimize and click the yellow brush twice. This will allow you to use the large brush size which will stay the same size, even when minimized to cover more area.
Now that we have a clean slate to work with, switch to green to outline anything that would cast shade such as:
Buildings and Structures
Trees
Complete the outline first. Start by maximizing the page again. This will make it easier to get precise lines.
Don’t forget you can zoom in.
Also important to note, that deciduous trees will be “skeletons” in the winter but it is important to factor in foliage that would be present during the growing seasons.
Zoom in so you can approximate the foliage better.
Now fill in the outline.
Now that we’re done, we will hit the X and then Apply Changes.
The one discrepancy to be aware of is that the azimuth will depend on the surveyor measuring accurately. There will almost always be some slight human error.
We’ll need to fix this to be consistent with the rest of our design documents. Do this by editing the properties.
Correct the Azimuth to what is listed in Aurora.
This should be fairly clear as it will be the closest azimuth.
Of course, be sure to reference the map drawing by the surveyor to confirm suneye locations:
The pitch can be corrected to the measurement from the structural survey as needed.
Now complete those steps with the other Skylines.
1 | UPLOADING SUNEYES
1 | UPLOADING SUNEYES
Now we’ll publish our documents.
Publish skylines that are for the same roof sections together.
Each roof section gets published separately.
Enter the customer info:
Note that we are using the roof section as the phone number.
This is to distinguish each document. It won’t be apparent that the field was meant for a phone number.
Enter our info:
Make sure to list the correct address and phone of course.
This will be your shade document.
Make sure to update the name using the appropriate naming convention.
Name this document “Suneye Report” with the corresponding roof section.
It goes in the Design - Shade Report folder in Salesforce File Browser.
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