Sefaira, a software provider for high-performance building design, now offers customizable daylighting graphics and enhanced daylighting analysis, including design guidance. These new tools deliver real-time daylighting analysis and visualization directly within the Trimble SketchUp and Autodesk Revit Architecture design environments.
Sefaira recognizes that daylighting analysis is especially powerful when it combines valuable design insights with high-quality graphical outputs that enable better communication with clients. Sefaira’s new daylighting assets include:
- Sefaira Customizable Daylighting Graphics: Exportable graphics for both annual and point-in-time analysis, allowing designers to add powerful visuals to client presentations that can communicate a design’s performance and help explain the experience within a space at certain points in time. Designers can customize reports to grid, contour and gradient views, depending on their needs.
- Sefaira Enhanced Daylighting Analysis: Guidance, such as a clear visualization of under- and over-lit spaces, allows designers to make better decisions around glazing, shading and façade design, without requiring knowledge of building physics. The integration of daylighting visualization with Sefaira’s plugins allows designers to directly understand the implications of their decisions on a building’s energy usage.
Sefaira is known for its speed of development and strong customer focus. The new daylighting features were developed based on detailed interviews with industry practitioners during the first quarter of this year.
Sefaira’s new daylighting graphics and analysis will be immediately available to Sefaira customers.