Auto Design

AI-powered auto design, with class-leading, 3rd-party validated accuracy and advanced shading analysis.

Pro> Auto Design
A screenshot of the OpenSolar platform demonstrating its AI auto-design feature. A satellite image of a residential property is shown, with its boundaries highlighted. An AI assistant chat window named "Ada" displays the message "Generating Auto Designs," while a system status card confirms "Auto Design Generating" is in process.

The world’s fastest, most accurate design technology

Ada automatically creates build-ready designs for you in seconds, using OpenSolar’s class-leading design technology, now powered by AI:

  • ​Automated, fully rendered 3D designs
  • Simple sketch tool on 2D imagery for when there’s no 3D imagery available, producing the same auto system design as with 3D
  • Pitch, azimuth and shading calculated automatically – with no input from the user
  • Auto designs automatically generate a bill of materials for every project
  • Auto designs feed directly into the new, cutting edge Sales Machine customer proposal

Proven, class-leading accuracy​

Independently verified by a leading US Government agency and leading engineering firm PVEL, OpenSolar’s design tool is proven to deliver results you can count on.

  • Photogrammetry-based Digital Surface Map (DSM) technology eliminates the time-intensive and error-prone work of manually building site models
  • Leading shading estimate accuracy verified by a leading US Government agency
  • Performance calculation engine based on the trusted System Advisor Model of a leading US Government agency
  • Trusted design outputs lead to accurate savings values and happy customers

Analyze year-round shading​

Our automated shading analysis saves you time and gives you performance values you can trust:

  • Auto-generated and bankable shading analysis values
  • Dynamic solar tracing to model shading impacts through day/month/year
  • Heatmaps and shade reports
  • Sub-panel level shading analysis down to the sub-string to inform optimal equipment configurations

3D tools for every type of project​

The most accurate solar design tool available, with full 3D modeling and automation, now also includes:

  • ​Ability to design and sell commercial systems
  • Global HD imagery coverage with 3D, 2D or custom properties
  • Built-in modeling and measurement tool to design accurate systems where no imagery is available
  • Roof plane and obstruction setting mode, with automated solar array placement
A screenshot of the OpenSolar solar design interface, showing a satellite view of a roof with panels designed on it. An overlaid window on the right summarizes the "41 Panels System," while a second window on the left shows detailed settings for a specific "Panel Group 2." The user is editing this group's "Basic Settings," such as "Flush" racking, "Azimuth" (213.5), and "Slope" (20.5), and can view its "Annual Sun Access" from the shading analysis.

Multi-panel systems

Design Multiple Panel Types on the Same System:

  • Model more complex installations where a single panel type cannot be used
  • Assign different panel models to different arrays within the same design
  • Works in the standard OS design process. Simply proceed with system design and proposal generation as normal

What the Pros have to say

We’re in a super competitive market, and we have to react FAST when we get a customer lead. OpenSolar’s design tool means that anyone in our team can create a really accurate design in just a few minutes, and get the proposal out to the customer. It’s also good to know that it’s the most accurate design tool out there!
Curtis Popko
Curtis
ARE Solar (Denver, USA)