Desktop app for architects · our own product
Orientis
An analysis app where an architect opens a model, sets the location, and gets real sun and shadow calculations shown in 3D and exported as a PDF report.
- Client
- FOMER product
- Year
- 2026
- Status
- In development
Orientis tells you how many hours of direct sun each surface of a building gets, calculated rather than estimated. It opens DAE, FBX, OBJ and glTF models from SketchUp, AutoCAD and Revit; once the location and north are set, the sun path and shadows appear in the 3D scene.
Calculations run in a separate Python engine using pvlib and are tested against published reference values; sunrise, solar noon and sunset stay within half a minute of the US Naval Observatory figures. Project files never leave the user’s computer.
Highlights
- Sun hours per surface and point
- Solstice and equinox comparison
- PDF report
- macOS and Windows installers
Technology
- Electron
- React
- TypeScript
- three.js
- Python
- pvlib
Tell us what you want to build. We will come back within two working days with an approach and a first estimate.