Tutorial developed by my graduate student Mark Landis based on his thesis.  source files, weather data, and installation files are available online . You can also check out his full thesis “Development of a Parametric Data-Driven Fixed Shading Device Design Workflow”

Step 1: Installation.

Installation Video

Step 2: Process of energy modeling and shading device design

Tool Tutorial.

Step 3: Render to illustrator

P3_render

Step 4. Post result online

postonline

Additional resources: explain how the method works.

Method Explanation