Solar Farm Planner is one of a kind technology demonstration of basic features in Autodesk® ecosystem for laying out solar farms on arbitrary areas on Google® Maps.

Using Forge™ platform, it is integrated with Autodesk® BIM 360® for better collaboration of users on a project and for saving a 3D mock-up of solar farms to BIM 360 Docs®, which can be displayed with Autodesk Forge Viewer™. The farm design process is just a few simple calculations (total number of panels, total weight, total kWh, etc.) combined with panels rotation and tilt on the area that may be a complicated polygon on the map.

The main features 

• Data transfer with Autodesk services 
• Google Maps manipulation 
• Arbitrary polygon area 
• Panel rotation and tilt 
• Import/export of mock-ups from/to: 
  • Local drive 
  • BIM 360 Docs 
• Adjustable farm parameters: 
  • Scale 
  • Panels number 
  • Weight 
  • Output power 
  • Etc. 

Requirements 

• An Autodesk account 
• A desktop browser Chrome 63 or higher, Firefox 58 or higher, whatever was tested on, or similar 

If you are interested in a tool customized or enhanced for your needs, we’ll be glad to discuss your requirements with you.

Note: App is compatible with BIM 360 Docs.