Software program to make your own sundials accurately

Shadows Software

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Thursday, 05 March 2009 16:29

Shadows is a program used to design sundials. It can be used by everybody without any required technical skills. Shadows will calculate everything and print the drawing according the user's preferences

Shadows is acclaimed by thousands of users around the world and by numbers of professional sundial makers and astronomers. Shadows has been awarded by the French Astronomy Society (Société Astronomique de France).

Get it FREE here www.shadowspro.com

If I can point you to the experts - I will. I am no expert. Hence my database and the forum. And also hence this superb desgn program. Click on the link above to go direct to his Shadows site - and also from there to the pretty amazing www.cadrans-solaires.org site by François Blateyron

I, François Blateyron, devoted hundreds of hours to develop Shadows, I do hope that you will appreciate its simplicity, its richness, and its power. I also tried to make it possible for everyone to understand the science of sundials with the site www.cadrans-solaires.org and with the online help of Shadows. I hope that while reading them, you will decide to build your own sundial.

Key points of Shadows

* Free of charge in its entry level
* Two advanced levels: Shadows Expert and Shadows Pro
* Acclaimed as the most simple choice for the design of sundials
* Calculates and prints the drawings at real scale
* Simulates and displays the shadow of the style
* Includes a complete documentation in English
* Exports drawings as BMP, JPG, EMF and DXF (AutoCAD)
* Includes a location data base of 2500 places
* Offers a complete solar ephemeris
* Available in 8 languages
* Supports plane sundials with polar style, analemmatic sundials, cylindrical and bifilar sundials.
* Designed for Windows XP and Windows Vista*

* But it does run under Windows emulation in Linux

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