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title: "How Impact Works"
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This page explains Enscape Impact workflows and settings.


## **Settings**

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## **Dashboard**

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## **Visualization**

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**Heating Energy**, **Cooling Energy **for Peak Loads and Annual Energy, as well as **Solar Energy** under Thermal Gains. The quick comparison represents these visual modes with their color scales. All closed spaces are calculated and complete rooms are visualized through use of transparency applied on your complete project model.

Impact runs on the [IES](https://www.iesve.com/software/building-energy-modeling) Apache technology. The weather data used for building location is extracted from [Ashrae Weather Data Center](https://www.ashrae.org/technical-resources/bookstore/weather-data-center). If you want to learn more, check out the [Enscape Impact Video Tutorial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkHixYs74o).