Shadow Analysis 2.5

Shadow Analysis is a professional tool for understanding how sunlight and shade move across your site, building, or landscape throughout the day and across seasons. It helps you evaluate massing options, minimize overshadowing, improve daylight access, plan solar installations, and communicate findings with clear visuals and concise reports.

Key features:

• Accurate sun-path and shadow simulation by location, date, and time
• Seasonal studies (solstices/equinoxes), hourly sweeps, and cumulative shadow maps
• Visual outputs: 3D shadows, ground shadow footprints, and shade-duration heatmaps
• Metrics: hours of direct sunlight/daylight, overshadowing percentages, and facade/roof exposure
• Scenario comparison to test design iterations side by side
• Import site context and export high-resolution images, animations, and printable summaries
• Compliance-oriented checks with configurable thresholds for daylight and overshadowing
• Terrain-aware analysis, building heights, setbacks, and roof pitches
• Solar planning tools to identify shaded zones and optimize PV placement
• Easy sharing via annotated snapshots and lightweight viewer files

Typical workflow:

• Set project location and orientation
• Choose analysis periods (specific times, date ranges, or seasonal windows)
• Add or adjust geometry and heights
• Run the analysis, review insights, and iterate
• Export visuals and reports for stakeholders

Designed for:

• Architects, urban designers, and planning consultants
• Solar/PV engineers and energy modelers
• Landscape architects and campus planners
• Educators and students studying daylight and shading

Benefits:

• Faster, evidence-based design decisions
• Reduced planning and compliance risk
• Clear, persuasive visuals for clients and authorities
• Better daylight quality and solar potential across projects

Shadow Analysis is developed by DeltaCodes. The most popular version of this product among our users is 2.5. The name of the program executable file is ShadowAnalysis.exe.