Unlike points, lines, and planes, a zone is created with every normal facing outwards by default, and appropriate materials are applied to the walls, ceiling, and floor respectively. (Click on the ground to place each corner, and press ESC to close the figure.) The height of the zone is determined by the Default Zone Height mentioned in Section 1.3.
On the side toolbar is the icon for creating a zone zone, which you make by tracing its footprint on the ground plane. You will have to change this default every time you want to make a space or group of spaces with a new ceiling height. On the Modeling tab, the most important thing is to set the Default Zone Height to whatever ceiling height you will want. On the Localization tab, you set the units in which the model will be built. On these tabs are included the filepaths of all important and install files, various user defaults, curser snap, object linking, and background color options. On the top toolbar, there is a little black box through which you can change the user preferences. The altitude and local terrain fields are not used in the lighting analysis portion of Ecotect. If the walls of your building do not face due north, south, east, and west or if youd like to try out different building orientations its often easier to change the north angle than to change the angle of the walls. One other very useful function located on this page is the north offset function. (See next page.) You can also set the longitude, latitude, and time zone on this page if you wish, but we will do that later in the tutorial. On the upper-most tab on the left side of your screen, you may enter any project information and notes for your own records. The licenses that we have are desktop, not network, licenses, so make sure that button is clicked before clicking next This should next. The final screen shows details of the license you just entered. Copy and paste them into the correct fields from the email that was sent to you, and click next next. The following screen should ask for the product number, email address, and password. On the next screen, click Activate via the internet on this computer and click next next.
You should begin by clicking on activate license in the bottom left corner. The first time you start Ecotect, it will present you with this screen: Natural Light in Design: IAP 2009ECOTECT TUTORIAL -Si Kleindienst-Sin -Sin Kleindienst.
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