https://github.com/dabasler/solis-cc

Solis is a CloudCompare plugin to calculate solar irradiance on point cloud and meshes, based on location and integrated over time
https://github.com/dabasler/solis-cc

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Solis is a CloudCompare plugin to calculate solar irradiance on point cloud and meshes, based on location and integrated over time

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dabasler/solis-cc
• Owner: dabasler
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2020-12-23T15:43:11.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-23T16:43:30.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-24T04:20:56.540Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: cloudcompare, cloudcompare-plugin, irradiance, point-cloud, solar
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 33.2 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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#  Solis

Solis (latin : sun) is a plugin for [CloudCompare](https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare) to calculate solar irradiance on pointcloud and meshes.

It is based on the qPCV plugin in CloudCompare and uses the a C implementation of the [solrad](https://github.com/bnasr/solrad) functions to calculate solar radiation and related variables based on location and time.

## Install Solis in CloudCompare

The plugin is not (yet) made available as compiled plugin .dll that can be added to already installed versions of CloudCompare. To compile it, 

- clone CloudCompare from [https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare](https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare)

- follow the instructions to compile CloudCompare [here](https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/blob/master/BUILD.md)

- clone this repository in the `CloudCompare/plugins/3rdparty` directory

- re-run CloudCompare's cmake

- turn on `PLUGIN_3RDPARTY_QSOLIS` in your cmake options

- build CloudCompare

## Use Solis in CloudCompare

The plugin is available through the GUI in >Plugins 

The plugin can also be accessed through the [CloudCompare commandline](https://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/index.php?title=Command_line_mode): 

Command |	Description

------------ | -------------

`-SOLIS`     | *Runs the SOLIS plugin* 
 Optional settings are:
 `-TYPE`  [value]: one of 'DIRECT' 'DIFFUSE' 'ALL' 
 `-LAT`  [value]: latitude (degree N)
`-LON`  [value]: longitude (degree E) 
 `-ELV`  [value]: elevation (m)
 `-DOY`  [value]: Doy of Year (with fractional time) 
 `-INT`  [value]: Integrate over x hours (hours). Set to -1 for single timepoint 
 `-TS`    [value]: Timestep for calculation of sun position (minutes) 
 `-NRAYS`    [value]: number of rays for diffuse light calculations 
 `-TYPE`  [value]: one of 'DIRECT', 'DIFFUSE' or 'ALL' 
 `-IS_CLOSED`: Tells SOLIS that the mesh is watertight. This accelerates processing. 
 `-RESOLUTION` [value]: OpenGL context resolution