Free trial versions: <br />http://www.valentin-software.com/en/products/photovoltaics/57/pvsol-premium <br /> <br />Transskript: <br />This tutorial shows how quickly and easily you can create simple standard buildings and configure a photovoltaic system in PV*SOL premium 2016 without a costly local meeting. In this release, many time-consuming steps have been simplified, considerably accelerating the design process. This is achieved mainly through the new features "Map Import" and "Extrusion Of 3D Objects" <br />First, start PV*SOL premium 2016 or a later version. You are now on the "Welcome Page" of the application. <br />We will now reproduce a simple house with a hipped roof. Please begin a new project. <br />We have chosen Los Angeles as the location. <br />Now click on the button "3D Design" and then on the overview screen to get into the "3D Visualization". <br />In the dialog "New 3D System" click on the button "Coverable Object" and select the menu item "Map Section" in the drop down menu. <br />Now you see an expanded view of the dialog, in which a city map is shown on the top right. Click on it. <br />An address field is located on the top left, in which you can mark off the location of the building. <br />You can scroll with the mouse wheel and you can move the image with the left mouse button. <br />The resulting "pixels per meter" determined by the map service are shown in the field "scale". If you have different data available, you can change the value. <br />The software zooms immediately into the "Object View" on the map, and you can begin to sketch the floor plans. <br />At first we sketch a polygon for the target building. Click on this button to begin the process. <br />The polygon can be drawn by clicking on the map section. Please draw accurately. <br />You can interrupt tracing and draw a further polygon with the Enter Key. <br />Because the house is a building with a hipped roof, we draw a distance which marks the ridge in the next step. <br />With the Right Mouse Button or the Escape Key you can terminate the sketching. <br />The plan can then be extruded. Click on the polygon and select the context menu item "Extrude 3D Object". <br />A "Building With Hipped Roof" is then offered as the preselection. All dimensions as well as the orientation are already taken from this building. <br />Now only the data for the eaves must be entered, i.e. the height of the ground floor and the roof slope to the longer eave. <br />Here we have some shading caused by a tree. This can also be sketched and will be included in the shading simulation. <br />Since the object is to be covered with PV modules in the next step, it must be added to the coverable objects. Then click "Activate". <br />PV*SOL offers an automatic method of assigning the modules, which guarantees the optimal utilization of the roof space. <br />We can execute a shading analysis now. So hit this button. <br />The computer program featured is PV*SOL premium, a design software from Valentin Software in the fields of photovoltaics and renewable energy. The software focuses on design support and yield calculation. ... .
