Architectural Daylighting Analysis

An innovative approach to textbooks, Architectural Daylighting Analysis will help you learn the key concepts and workflows behind performing daylighting analysis to your architectural design. Using examples and experience from the real world, you'll be able to create accurate daylighting studies to understand how (and how much) daylighting will impact the design and usability of rooms and spaces. This ebook references the latest in design software pairing BIM modeling from Autodesk Revit 2013 with the rendering and analysis engines from Autodesk 3DS Max Design 2013 to provide some of the most accurate results in daylighting simulations. This book will focus on showing you the steps to best prepare your Revit model geometry and materials then transition that model to 3ds Max Design for analysis. Once in 3ds Max Design, we'll demonstrate how to set up the study for accurate results and ultimately run the analysis.