Features – PreDesigner – Architectural Site Analysis

Our Feature List

Draw the Architectural Site you wish to Analyze

  • Mark the boundaries of the site you want to analyze on a Satellite Image, or a Stylized Map.
  • Site can be as small as you want, up to as large as a 1000 Acres!
  • Edit the boundary any time you wish, if it’s incorrect, by clicking and dragging the node.
  • Delete points on the boundary by clicking on them.
  • Get the Area of your site as you edit the boundary. This allows you to choose a site of a particular size easily.
  • Get the Boundary length, or the perimeter of your site.
  • The Boundary is immediately converted to it’s real World location, in it’s precise location, always.
  • The Site is highlighted, but transparent to easily identify it.
  • There is a Graphic Scale at the bottom right of the Map always.

Mark Important Points

  • You can Mark any and all important Points of Interest on a Satellite Image, or a Stylized Map.
  • Unlimited Markers of all types. Mark everything that is important to you.
  • Different types of Markers are provided for appropriate different uses.
  • Switch markers on and off in layers, by type, to declutter the Map.
  • Remove markers if necessary by clicking on them.

Auto Save

  • All your work is autosaved at every keystroke and click.
  • Even if you close the browser, you can go back to the site, and find all your previous work right as you left them.

Multiple Architectural Sites for Analysis

  • Create more then one site, for Architectural Site Analysis!
  • Create and name your sites as you need them.
  • Manage your collection of sites by copying, editing or deleting old sites.
  • Copy a site, by pressing the “Shift” key, and clicking on “Copy”
  • Get the exact time and date you saved a project by pressing “Shift”.
  • Erase an entire site if you need to, by hovering over the name in the Project list.
  • Erase a site by mistake? Theres a recycle bin where you can retrieve it.

3D Visualization of the Architectural Site Analysis

  • Terrain in 3D, as soon as you’ve drawn your site. (at 60 fps!)
  • View your site boundary and Points of Interest marked in 3D, on the terrain.
  • Use the Sliders to vary the Sun position by Date and Time, for any time you want to see.
  • Shadows of the terrain itself can be seen.
  • Sun Rise and Sun Set angles for anysite, every day, by simply using the sliders.
  • Use the shadows of the Tree Markers, for instance to get a rough idea of shadows on site, through the year.
  • Mark Roads and paths as a series of markers to understand the terrain and placement better.

Site Sections through the terrain

  • Make Site Sections of your site in two directions, just by using the sliders. Easy as pie.
  • All the parallel sections of the site, showing the slopes and angles clearly.

Contours of the full site and surroundings.

  • Get the contour drawing of your site immediately on drawing it, for any site on earth.
  • The base contours are drawn as per meters above Mean Sea Level, so the contours shouldn’t change based on your site, but only the terrain itself.
  • Look at the Contour model in 3D to get a better understanding of your site.

Sun Path – Architectural Site Analysis

  • Get the Sun Path of your site Immediately, as soon as it’s drawn.
  • The exact angles are calculated and marked for per month, annually.
  • The exact angles are calculated and marked every six minutes for the entire day.
  • The Seasons are depicted by colour, Red for Summer and Blue for Winter.
  • Works anywhere in the world, including the Southern Hemisphere.