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Need advice for complex shading scene


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I have a multi-orientation PV system on a very curvy hillside, and I am struggling to model it successfully.

Using the automatic altitude tool, I end up with 60+ orientations which is obviously too many to reasonably distribute the strings across (and obviously the software only allows 8 anyway). Is there any best practice or easy method to overcome this? Or would I need to manually adjust the different groups of tables into just 8 pitch/azimuth combinations, and position them manually?

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated. Please see screenshots attached.

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Hi,

In the 3D scene, Tools > Orientation management tool, you will find a tool that will help you reduce the number of orientations. There are several ways to proceed, either semi-manually, or by changing the tolerance to identify different orientations.

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If you double click on an orientation, you can assign tables to it. In the above example all tables have been assigned to orientation #1, so you should first unassign them before assigning them to another orientation group.

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