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Download QGIS Plugin
The infrared.city QGIS plugin is now available. Run wind, thermal comfort, and solar simulations on your urban projects — directly inside your GIS environment.
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Explore 12 curated resources about tutorial on infrared.city. This topic hub brings together our getting started to help architects, urban planners, and sustainability professionals deepen their understanding of tutorial in the context of climate-informed design.
Getting Started (12 articles)
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How Materials Shape Cities Today and Tomorrow
This workflow uses projected EPW files to evaluate UTCI differentials across material substitution scenarios and compare thermal comfort outcomes between present-day and future climate conditions within a single Grasshopper canvas.
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Ground Material Impact on Microclimate Performance
This workflow integrates infrared.city’s ground material editing with parametric surface redistribution in Grasshopper to quantify how vegetation and hardscape ratios shift UTCI distributions and heat-stress exposure, enabling performance-driven open-space design decisions.
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Performance-Based Form Optimization Using Galapagos + infrared.city
This workflow couples infrared.city’s wind simulation with Galapagos to optimize massing configurations under a fixed building volume, using mesh-based wind metrics to reduce both high-speed acceleration zones and low-speed stagnation areas.
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Mapping Heat-Trapped Zones with Grasshopper Connector
This tutorial walks through a complete Grasshopper workflow for multi-parameter filtering — from project setup and geometry updates to threshold-based visualization. See how intersecting thermal comfort and wind speed results can uncover microclimate risks and support evidence-based design refinement.
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Getting started: Post-Process Your infrared.city Results
Build KPI workflows in Grasshopper with the infrared.city plugin—post-process thermal comfort, compare scenarios, and assess interventions with custom metrics.
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Getting started with Connectors: infrared.city in Revit
Learn how to use the infrared.city plugin in Revit with this step-by-step tutorial. Discover how to install the plugin, log into your account, load projects, add analyses, update geometries, and run simulations directly inside your BIM workflow.
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Getting started: Pedestrian Wind Comfort Simulation
In this article, you will learn how to simulate and evaluate pedestrian wind comfort using real design scenarios. The tutorial explains how to import design models, define seasonal and hourly conditions, and run comparative simulations to assess wind comfort in urban environments.
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Getting started: Thermal Comfort Simulations
Learn how to run and interpret thermal comfort simulations using infrared.city platform. This guide walks you through setting up your project, choosing analysis types like Thermal Comfort Index and Statistics, and evaluating outdoor heat conditions to support climate-responsive design.
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Getting started: Post-Process Your Infrared.city Results
Learn to post-process wind simulation results from infrared.city using a pre-made Grasshopper script and Human UI dashboard. Get step-by-step instructions to load your project, connect geometry, define wind speed thresholds, and interactively visualize performance.
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Getting started with Connectors: infrared.city in Grasshopper
Learn how to integrate infrared.city with Rhino/Grasshopper workflows in this comprehensive tutorial. Follow step-by-step instructions to install the plugin, authenticate your account, load projects, set up analyses, and run simulations.
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Getting started: Running Your First Simulations
In this article, you will learn how to quickly set up your project for simulations on infrared.city. You will discover how to edit the site context, manipulate models, and run environmental simulations effortlessly. Follow these steps to get started.