Overview

The main elements of this website are a 3D-area that fills most of the screen, several display- and toolbar-elements to the left and a retractible sidebar on the left edge of the screen.

With the symbols in the upper left corner the sidebar visibility can be toggled.

The toolbar symbols on the left side allow some general actions - from top to bottom: toggling fullscreen, resetting the 3D-Panel Menu, project information and show this panel.

3D Navigation

Navigation in the 3D-area works best using a mouse.

(clicking with the Left Mouse Button and dragging while holding the button) rotates the model, panes the viewport to move sideway or up and down and zooms in and out.

On touch devices, the following command can be used: Rotate - one finger swipe, Pan - two finger swipe, Zoom - two finger pinch

3D-Panel Menu

The 3D-Panel Menu can be used to toggle the visibility of 3D elements. There are several sub-panel available to toggle geometric elements, respectively simulation results.

Clicking on a title section within a subpanel will fold/unfold that section and toggling elements within these section will toggle the visibility of the respective element.

The placement symbol to the upper left of the menu can be dragged to move the menu.

Sidebar

When the left sidebar is visible, clicking into the simulated area while holding the ALT key

will set a marker at the mouse position. The website will then fetch additional data for that position and display them in the side panel.

This makes it possible to visualize various parameters like air temperature, apparent temperature, humidity etc. for that particular location over the course of the simulated time (usually a day).

Please note, that for technical reasons, the data displayed on the website may be slightly shifted from the actual clicked position.

Microclimate Simulation

Depending on the type of simulation, different parameters might be displayed. In most cases, the simulation results that can be toggled via the 3D-Panel Menu will show various color surfaces. The colors of the legend correspond with the last-selected element.

In most cases the following variables will be visible:

AT

apparent temperature (Steadman) [°C]

UTCI

Universal Thermal Climate Index [°C]

T

air temperature [°C]

Tsa

surface temperature [°C]

U

wind velocity [m/s]

rh

relative humidity [%]

X

absolute humidity [-]

Various indexes are used to show a particular parameter at a certain point in time (e.g. _0600 or _1500 for 6:00 and 15:00 respectively) or space (e.g. _1.5 or _15 for 1.5 meters respectively 15 meters above terrain).