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Name: 45 Degree Shadows for Elevation

Description: Adds 45 degree top-left/right shadows to elevations

Menu Item: View > Elevation 45 Shadows > Left || Right

Usage:

• Set up your plan or elevation-view scenes(s).
• Works best with perspective OFF.

Tip:

Select an elevation face and right-click and pick Align View to get a non-orthogonal elevation [i.e. non-F/B/L/R]. Then select View > Elevation 45 Shadows > Left || Right

45 Degree Shadows for Elevation will automatically work out a location, time of day etc, and in conjunction with the view's camera direction, add shadows as if the sun is from the top-left or top-right of the view, at 45 degrees, in elevation or in plan views.

Note:

• Aligning views to 3D sloping faces will have unexpected affects.
• Shadow setting changes are NOT Undo-able automatically. Because it changes the geo-location, North etc, only use it on a copy of the model's SKP.
  It will realign North in each processed view, but all recent versions of SketchUp allow only one North at a time, so you'll need to copy the model's SKP for each shadowed view and use the scene-tabs to get proper shadows.

1.4 20140304 Improved format, typo fixed, now in TIG module etc.
Now two versions Left & Right chosen from sub-menu.