Empowering Sustainable Landscape Decisions
Sunscape® Application creates sun exposure maps that save time, improve results, and make sustainable landscape planning and design easier.
Smart and easy-to-use Sunscape® Extension creates cumulative day-time and date-range sun exposure maps on 3D model surfaces, displayed in Sunscape® Interactive Viewer.
Simultaneously create any number of Sunscape® Maps for any model surface.
Orbit, pan, and zoom into Sunscape Maps to determine the right plants for a place and the right place for planting, structure placement, and outdoor living/recreation areas that provide the right sun exposure at the right time.
Sunscape Maps empower landscape design and planning decisions for fact-driven, sustainable landscape success.
When we work with nature, nature works for us.
Morning - Growing Season
Afternoon - Growing Season
Full Day - Growing Season
Sunscape® Extension for Sketch up
How it Works
Sunscape® for Sketch up - macOS or Windows
Note: Sunscape material becomes a right click option when Sunscape Extension is uploaded into your Sketch up extension library.
Apply Sunscape material to selected onscreen model surfaces.
Choose Sunscape extension.
Choose mapping time span and date range on the Sunscape menu.
Queue up any number of mapping time span/date range sets.
Select desired precision, from 3 inches to 30 feet.
Press Sunscape!
Up pops Sunscape Viewer displaying mapping timeline.
Mapping time, generally less than 1 minute, is a function of precision but not the number of mapping sets.
Interactive Sunscape maps, selectable from a drop-down menu on Sunscape Tool Bar help guide your landscape design decisions.
Save images of Sunscape maps, via the toolbar, for future reference.
It’s that easy
Sunscape® Extension
Annual Subscription
Sunscape® Extension
Sunscape Extension integrates to SketchUp Pro for Mac or Windows to map .skp and other models imported to SketchUp. Access Ecoscape website’s User Area for helpful Extension User Guides and Videos.
Introductory price offer is valid for orders received before August 1, 2025 and includes a short feedback survey.
No credit card required 7-Day OR 30-Day Free Trial with User Experience Survey
Annual Subscription $79
Please contact us to discuss multi-seat DISCOUNTS.
See it Work
Sunscape® Map Use Cases
Use saved Sunscape map images as pre-design model overlays and use sun exposure to help guide the layout process.
Add an object, create Sunscape maps of the altered model to observe sun exposure on the object and the effect of the object’s shadow on surrounding areas.
Simultaneously create morning, afternoon, and full day Sunscape maps to identify the perfect location for the functional success of planting areas, outdoor living/play areas, and structures.
Watch Introduction to Sunscape video
Sunscape® Applications Deliver
Accurate Sun Exposure Maps
Use our expertly segmented time and date range cumulative sun exposure to inform your landscape planning process. Sunscape's cutting-edge sun mapping methodology and process was designed by experts in the fields of sustainable landcare and sun mapping technology. The Sunscape® mapping process is time tested with proven accuracy.
Seamless Work Integration
Sunscape™ Extension integrates with SketchUp Pro while Sunscape™ App functions as an independent standalone application to create precision Sunscape maps for 3D models including skp, 3ds, fbx, and obj. Our application menus, toolbars, and intuitive user screens make Sunscape software applications easy to use for immediate productivity.
Productivity and Success
Sunscape™ Extension and Application user interfaces make our products easy to learn and use. Instructive user videos, guides, and support documents in Sunscape User Area provide assistance and helpful ways to use Sunscape maps to create landscape plans that endure sustainably; requiring fewer inputs, less water, and less maintenance to thrive.
Create Sunscape sun exposure maps
for any daytime span
for any date range
at a chosen scale
Ecoscape is driven by the goal of encouraging earth-sustainable behavior in landscapes.
We believe that by helping people plan and plant responsibly we can help reduce the use of earth harmful chemicals and reduce the overuse of earth’s precious natural resources in landscapes.
Sunscape® Applications were created by sustainable gardening and solar mapping experts with years of experience mapping sun exposure and creating beautiful, successful, sustainable gardens using Sunscape® Maps.
As landscape decision makers we have the opportunity to foster sustainable behavior in landscapes.
- Dayle Cosway, Ecoscape CEO
Ecoscape is continuing to code nature’s rhythms. Look for additional sustainable landscape empowerment apps, coming soon.