Take the 2-minute tour ×  is it possible to use hillshade
function in ArcMap to calculate shadow areas of buildings or
simulate shadows of buildings, using DSM of the buildings and
the sun angle and azimuth?  share|improve this question Please
edit your first question if you need to change something. If you
just want to add the tags, don't worry because I have done that
for you. –  Nathan W Nov 10 '10 at 12:52 Also possible duplicate
of math.stackexchange.com/questions/9683/… –  Gareth Rees Nov 10
'10 at 12:59 And possible duplicate of
programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/18086/… –  Jaime Soto
Nov 10 '10 at 14:13  6 Answers 6  ArcGIS claims to be able to do
this at 10 with new 3D Analyst tools: Virtual City Template
Enables 3D City Modeling. I say claims because I haven't
personally used these tools yet. Here's the documentation for
the tool discussed in that article: How Skyline Barrier (3D
Analyst) works  share|improve this answer  hi how about trying
to use sketchup? i did not do it so if you do let us