SketchUp + Thermography: A Powerful 3D BUILDING ANALYSIS Tool!
Using infrared thermal imaging (thermography) in combination with SketchUp's 3D models allows you to interactively visualize complex building science issues like heat loss, insulation, moisture leaks, and more. As long as you have a thermal imaging camera (e.g. the FLIR ONE which is not too expensive), it is easy to create such a model. In this video I show you how that is done.
I actually wrote about this technique a while ago in the following blog post and conference paper:
https://alexschreyer.net/projects/int...
My finished thermography model of the John W. Olver Design Building at UMass Amherst:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/mode...
For more on what you can do with SketchUp, check out my site https://sketchupfordesign.com and my book "Architectural Design with SketchUp".
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:53 What is infrared thermography (thermal imaging)?
2:00 My thermography setup (with a FLIR ONE camera)
3:20 Taking thermography images for this process
6:05 Adding thermography images to a 3D building model
8:00 Straightening images on faces in the model
12:00 Sharing the finished model in the 3D Warehouse
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