 In this video I will take a look at the shading design wizard inside the EcoTech environment and how we can use this wizard to optimize our design. Not only simple shading devices, but as well how we can use this tool for optimizing the environment, identify the most important areas of shading in our design project. I have now opened the EcoTech environment. At a very conceptual stage we can use the shading design wizard with inside EcoTech to do multiple things. We can project a cutting plane or we can extrude for solar environment, making a really extruded object of the sun path that we can use to cut off our geometry and we can generate an optimized shading device for understanding what kind of shading will be most effective but also to get inspiration to how to build up our environment, overhangs, stuff like that. And we can again, when we have generated the optimized shading, we can go in and have a look at where is the most potential to minimize the shading to not have something that is really out of control. So just did a very simple model here and some of the first steps that you will have to take is to examine the comfort with inside the space in regarding to daylighting, in regarding to the thermal conditions with inside the space. So one of the first thing I'll do is I'll go to analysis and I just did a very quick study of the heating and cooling loads to identify if I had any cooling loads during the summer. So now that I see that for this specific period here from May till beginning of August I do have some cooling needs with inside the zone and if we go to visualize and return on the daily and annual sun path and display our shadows, it's pretty logical what is really going on here because of this big window here to the south during the summer months we'll get a lot of passive heat from the sun into the building, into the space. So let's go back to the 2D editor, let's turn off these things here and let's just try to work with this in different ways. One of the things that we can do is we can mark the window and say okay if for the specific period here I want to make a shading device and I can then go to calculate shading design wizard and I can just generate optimal shading device because I know that this is the summer month. I want to narrow this down to be from May till September and I want to have it down for example from 10 to 16 like this and just say okay what kind of shading device do we want to look at because the sun is quite high I just want to look at a horizontal shade here so just the next and make sure because there's a little bar here so make sure that it's selected here in the summary page and just say okay and what I want to do now is just go here and just call this shading optimal shading mark this element or new shading device and move up like that and then I can turn on this contact element here. So what has happened now is that maybe it's not possible to make a shading device like this but this gives us some inspiration or some help to understand what kind of overhang what kind of neighboring building should we have to avoid any kind of direct solar penetrating the room within this time span. So if we'll go to for example to July and we'll be between 10 and the time span I selected you'll see that the window will be totally shaded with inside the time period that I specified so what we can do now is that we could go to draw rectangular zone and we can just go here we could go to a plan UF5 and so okay this is the span for the next part of our involvement here and we can go to F8 go up again and we can go to draw right another zone and we can say okay I want to make a zone up here so now I'm actually able to go in and turn off the sphere and see that now let's go to the visualize tab I really created the same conditions just with the building itself so really this just gives us an idea to how to optimize the involvement and how to what kind of shading device we want to look at so let's go in and let's turn off these two zones here turn on the shading device okay let's imagine that this shading device is a bit too big and I want to identify which area of the shading device is most important so I go to the window say calculate shading design wizard and I just say project shading potential make sure that the window is marked calculate shading design wizard generate project solar potential say okay and just here I have the same period and just say okay so now I get get an idea of okay I want to really reduce the shading device to to this area here so you'll see that this is a way that we can really get some help and some inspiration to how to do shading design with inside ecotech