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Place shading object

There are a total of 11 icons in the "Candela3D shading object" toolbar, corresponding to functions from left to right: "Place house model", "Place electrical pole model", "Place electrical tower model", "Place tree model", "Place WTG model", "Place Cuboid model", "Create fence", "Set as barrier", "Scale object", "Display/hide model dimension", and "Calculate shadow".

 

Left click to place objects

Users can insert models of houses, electrical poles, electrical towers, trees, wind turbines and cuboid separately in SketchUp.

Place objects by coordinates

Press Enter to enter the X and Y coordinates in the pop-up dialog box.

If there are marked shading objects in CAD, users can also use the "getxy" command to directly batch export the coordinates of the shading objcets and paste them into the dialog box.

Note: The coordinates are in the geodetic coordinate system, separated by commas between X and Y.

Import coordinates from File

Right-click and select From file to directly read coordinate data from a file for batch placement.
 
If there are marked shading objects in CAD, users can also use the "getxy" command to directly batch export the coordinates file of the shading objects .

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