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Typically in a design project, you might create a series of generic elements to replace the
ones that have a more detailed label. Using a filter to identify those, you can quickly locate what
needs more detail from within your project. The default template already uses the term Generic
to describe basic design host elements, which makes them easy to filter, as shown in Figure 11.42.

Figure 11.42
generic host element
filter

Setting Solar and Shadow Studies
By using solar and shadow studies, you can use another analytic visual style that allows
you to communicate natural lighting based on your project’s location, orientation, and time of
year. The sun’s path can also be displayed (Figure 11.43), and you can edit the path of the sun
both directly by dragging the sun or sun path within the view and indirectly through time-of-
day settings.

Figure 11.43
Visual sun path

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