Empowering Sustainable Landscape Decisions
Sunscape® Maps for fact driven sustainable landscape success.
Sun exposure is one of the most important determinants in the success of enduring, sustainable landscapes. Plants evolved to thrive, developing physical attributes and chemical production capabilities to feed and defend themselves, in specific light conditions.
People need the right sun exposure at the right time too, to utilize and enjoy their outdoor dining and leisure areas.
Determining specific and accurate sun exposure, an environmental factor that changes from hour to hour and day to day, is complex.
Sunscape extension accurately maps sun exposure on surfaces of an imported facsimile of your onscreen 3D model.
Any model surface can be mapped, for any number of time spans and date ranges, empowering landscape designers to plan for long term plant health and a client’s optimal use and enjoyment of outdoor living spaces.
Smart and easy-to-use Sunscape® Extension creates cumulative day-time and date-range sun exposure maps for 3D model surfaces.
Sunscape® Extension Sunscape® for Sketch Up
Sunscape® Extension for Sketch Up maps skp. and other model types imported into Sketch Up.
Sunscape Maps are unique in displaying color coded sun exposure areas from full sun to full shade making it easier for landscape designers to choose the right place for plants and the right orientation for outdoor living areas.
Sunscape extension was developed by sustainable landscape and sun energy mapping experts using proprietary sunlight accumulation, calibration, and segmentation algorithms.
Full Day - Growing Season
Morning - Growing Season
Afternoon - Growing Season
How Sunscape® Extension Works
Sunscape Extension is intuitive and user friendly for immediate productivity.
Users select model surfaces for mapping using Sunscape Mapping Material then queue up any number of daytime span and date range parameter sets using the Sunscape Menu. The model geometry is imported, mapped and displayed on the facsimile model in onscreen Sunscape Viewer. The mapping process has no effect on the original model.
Sunscape Viewer can be resized and has a multifunctional Sunscape Toolbar that allows users to choose any one of the Sunscape Maps to zoom, rotate, or move around. Additional Toolbar icons can be used to save or print Maps for future use.
It’s that easy to create Sunscape Maps.
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Sunscape® Extension
Sunscape Extension integrates into SketchUp Pro, Mac or Windows, to map cumulative sun exposure for .skp and other model types imported into SketchUp.
Use your purchase provided password to access the Extension User Area for helpful User Guides and Videos.
Sunscape Trials and Annual Subscriptions do not automatically renew. Trials are time limited and non-renewable. Annual Subscription purchasers receive an email inviting them to renew their Annual Subscription when it is about to expire.
7-Day Trial OR 30-Day Trial with User Experience Survey
Annual Subscription $79
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Create Sunscape sun exposure maps
Sunscape®Map Use Cases
Simultaneously create morning, afternoon, and full day Sunscape maps to identify the perfect location for the functional success of planting areas, outdoor living/play areas, and structures.
Use a saved Sunscape map image as pre-design model overlay to use sun exposure as a guide in the layout process.
During design, add an object, create maps of the altered model to observe sun exposure on the object and the effect of the object’s shadow on surrounding areas.
Grow trees and map to see the effect of time on the landscape design so you can design now for enduring landscape success.
for any daytime span
for any date range
at a chosen scale
Ecoscape is driven by the goal of encouraging earth-sustainable behavior in landscapes.
We believe that by helping people plan and plant responsibly we can help reduce the use of earth harmful chemicals and reduce the overuse of earth’s precious natural resources in landscapes.
Sunscape® Applications were created by sustainable gardening and solar mapping experts with years of experience mapping sun exposure and creating beautiful, successful, sustainable gardens using Sunscape® Maps.
As landscape decision makers we have the opportunity to foster sustainable behavior in landscapes.
- Dayle Cosway, Ecoscape CEO
Ecoscape is continuing to code nature’s rhythms. Look for additional sustainable landscape empowerment apps, coming soon.