This Chart provides information on the solar load, or heat gain per unit floor area (BTU/ ft2 F hr or W/m2). You can navigate between Façade and Surface quantities along with a month by month breakdown. To easily recognize the heat gain ranges, bars will appear red when overheating occurs, blue when underheating occurs, and green when an optimum range is reached.
Detailed Models
You may make selections on the model using the Charts. You may select into a Facade and all Surfaces within this Facade are displayed. You may then select one single Surface. It is not possible to select random multiple Surfaces using the Charts (you may do this on the model itself or using the Facade Navigator) and they will also display in the Charts.
The Dashboard (values in dials) will display the average results of all selections made.
There are controls provide in the Charts area to toggle between Average and Peak values and to ‘roll up’ which will reverse out of selections made, back to display all Facades on the model. Charts will start with all Facades displaying. Then you may click into Surfaces within a single Facade – then select a single Surface. Use the Roll Up button to reset the Charts (all selections are removed).
Selections and Roll Up (reversing back out/deselects Surfaces) is available for all Charts.
