1. Introduction

Welcome to t4su’s documentation manual.

1.1. What is t4su ?

T4SU (Tools for SketchUp) is a SketchUp plugin, implemented in Ruby, that gives you the capability:

• To couple SketchUp (the well-known CAAD tool) with the SOLENE simulation software developed in the CERMA laboratory.
• To map out visual-based morphological indicators permitting the analysis of the urban fabric.

1.2. Software

The latest version of the plugin is hosted at Renater, France’s National Research and Education Network.

1.3. Related Scientific Publishings

Developped by Thomas Leduc, (c)UMR 1563 AAU / CRENAU (CNRS/MCC/ECN), 2014-2016

T4SU has already been used in the following publications :

*Signorelli, V., & Leduc, T. (2016). De l’influence de la végétation et du relief dans la simulation de la ville à l’échelle du quartier. In J.-P. Goulette & B. Ferries (Eds.), SCAN’16 (pp. 125–134). Toulouse, France: Presses Universitaires de Nancy.

*Signorelli, V., Leduc, T., & Chauvat, G. (2016). How far is far enough? Towards an adaptive and “site-centric” modelling integrating co-visibility constraints for optimal land use. In J.-S. Bailly, D. Griffith, & D. Josselin (Eds.), 12th Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (pp. 233–240). Montpellier, France.

*Signorelli, V., Leduc, T., & Tourre, V. (2016). Ego-city - Automatic textual description of urban ambiences’ factors. In 3rd International Congress on Ambiances - Ambiances, tomorrow. Volos, Greece.

T4SU was also presented during the Journées Solene 2016. You can find more information on https://solene2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/ResumesSeminaireSolene2016.pdf

1.4. Citing T4SU

If you use T4SU in the context of your research, please cite the following paper :

*K. Hartwell and T. Leduc. T4SU : analyses et représentations des vues du ciel , du soleil et des saillances paysagères dans le contexte d’un outil de CAO. In S. Bimonte, T. Devogele, and A. Hassan, editors, Atelier session démonstration – Conférence Spatial Analysis and Geomatics – SAGEO 2016, page 7, Nice, France, 2016.