A separate guide for every step of solar plant design: automatic layout on roofs and on land, shading analysis, energy yield simulation, feasibility and setting-out plans. Each guide explains how the work is done in the software and the engineering assumptions behind it.
The automatic design workflow for rooftop and ground-mounted plants: layout, shading, yield, feasibility and DXF from a single model.
Read the guide →The module count follows from the roof geometry: ridge and eave lines, parapets, chimneys and HVAC units, and setback distances.
Read the guide →From site boundary to array: table arrangement, row spacing, slope threshold and setbacks. Module count and DC capacity in a single step.
Read the guide →Measured, not estimated: ray-traced near shading, row-to-row shading, chimney and parapet shadows, with hour-by-hour losses.
Read the guide →All 8,760 hours of the year, one by one: performance ratio, temperature and shading losses, P50/P90 and generation-consumption matching.
Read the guide →Generate the report from the design itself: bill of materials, net metering, payback period, NPV and IRR.
Read the guide →Which part of the site is genuinely usable: slope and aspect maps, contour lines, valley and ridge masks.
Read the guide →Scaled DXF, projected coordinate schedules, table blocks, terrain analysis layers and a three-dimensional KMZ.
Read the guide →Definitions of P50/P90, performance ratio, aspect, contour, setback, net metering and setting-out plan.
Read the guide →How a plant works and what it is made of: rooftop versus ground-mounted, installation stages and the design process.
Read the guide →Cost comes from modules, inverters, mounting, cabling and labour. Calculate it from your own bill of materials, not a per-kWp guess.
Read the guide →Payback depends on investment, yield, tariff and netting together. Calculate it from your own design's cash flow, not a rule of thumb.
Read the guide →Generation matched against consumption, hour by hour. Your self-consumption ratio affects payback more than installed capacity does.
Read the guide →The module rating alone is not enough: location, tilt, orientation, shading and losses decide the result. Calculate the yield hour by hour.
Read the guide →Dividing the area by square metres misleads. Draw the roof and see the real module count and kWp, with parapet and shading allowances.
Read the guide →Inter-row shading distance, slope and parcel shape change the answer. Draw the parcel and see the module count and installable kWp.
Read the guide →Site survey, structural check, grid application, installation and commissioning — and what to watch for at each step.
Read the guide →What actually differs between tools: workflow position, whether shading is measured, where costs come from and what CAD deliverable you get.
Read the guide →Layout, ray-traced shading, 8,760-hour yield, bill of materials, feasibility and setting-out DXF in one model.
Read the comparison →One workflow from site drawing to feasibility, in the browser. Compare where each tool is strongest.
Read the comparison →Runs without an AutoCAD licence; designs ground-mount and rooftop and delivers the setting-out plan as DXF.
Read the comparison →One workflow from drawing to feasibility and CAD output. Compare the two tools feature by feature.
Read the comparison →Design through cost and feasibility in one flow, with the setting-out plan as DXF.
Read the comparison →One workflow from drawing to feasibility on rooftop and mid-scale ground-mount projects.
Read the comparison →These are actual reports generated by SolarSimPro — not screenshots or mockups. Click «Preview» to explore the report directly on this page. Every calculation is generated from your project layout and the assumptions you define.
Click any card below and the report opens here. Use «Open full report» for full screen, or «download» to keep a copy.
Slope and aspect maps, contours, elevation sections and row-spacing sensitivity. Measures how suitable the site is for a layout.
HTML · 2.0 MB 02GROUND-MOUNTEDRay-traced near shading: hour-by-hour shading, shade-free duration, row-to-row shading and an annual loss breakdown.
HTML · 316 KB 03GROUND-MOUNTEDCapital cost, generation-consumption netting, 25-year cash flow, payback period and internal rate of return.
HTML · 406 KB 04PROPOSALThe proposal document produced by the software: scope, unit prices, payment schedule and signature blocks. Company details are filled in as an example.
HTML · 228 KB 05CADA georeferenced setting-out plan that opens in AutoCAD: table blocks, module geometry, analysis layers and the coordinate system (EPSG:5257).
DXF · 5.8 MB · downloads on click 06CADThe same setting-out plan as DWG — title block, dimensions and layer structure ready to drop into your project file. Layer names are in English: SETTING-OUT, SITE-COORD, SITE-POINT, SETBACK, MODULE-SURFACE.
DWG · 1.1 MB · downloads on click 07CADThe analysis sheet as a drawing: slope and aspect layers, contours, elevation labels and module footprints, each on its own layer — all named in English: ANALYSIS-SLOPE, ANALYSIS-ASPECT, ANALYSIS-CONTOUR, ANALYSIS-LEGEND.
DWG · 754 KB · downloads on clickAll 8,760 hours of the year: performance ratio, temperature and shading losses, P50/P90 and the monthly yield distribution.
HTML · 2.0 MB 09ROOFTOPShadows from chimneys, parapets and HVAC units; a per-module loss map and the hourly shading profile.
HTML · 631 KB 10ROOFTOPCapital cost and return calculation for a rooftop plant, with self-consumption ratio and netting scenario.
HTML · 72 KB 11CADA dimensioned drawing of the rooftop layout: module arrangement, obstacle outlines and setback distances (EPSG:23035).
DXF · 755 KB · downloads on clickShading analysis is not only a report — you can watch the day unfold. The clips below are recorded from the software's own shading scene.
If you are working on a rooftop project, automatic rooftop layoutis the first guide to read; if you are working on land, automatic ground-mounted layout is. Once the layout is settled, shading analysis and energy yield simulationcomes next, then feasibility report . If any term is unfamiliar, the glossary is always open.