This short article provides an example template - attached below for you to download and use - for using Sefaira's SketchUp plugin to analyse a building's daylight and communicate that with others.
This allows the user to start with a suggested design, test many ideas and improve that design before sharing the new design with both colleagues and clients. If you have specific design needs you can also create your own template. More complex templates include features like storyboards and titleblocks that appear on every page of your document. The most basic templates set your document's paper size and orientation. These Sefaira daylight simulations take from 10s to 4/5mins and so each new idea can be quickly tested. To create a new LayOut document you will need to choose a template. png images of our daylight analysis in the Sefaira plugin.
Sefaira provides many output assets including. After you insert a SketchUp models into a LayOut document, you can design the document to highlight your 3D models best features. How to report daylight images from Sefaira LayOut and SketchUp Pro are designed to work together.
