Lighting specifications depict how the color and intensity of lighting will appear once installed.
Lighting specifications depict how the color and intensity of lighting will appear once installed.
The 3D functionality allows for precise calculations of all lighting types, including interior, exterior, garden, and street lighting.
The selection of luminaire fixtures from online catalogs demonstrates exactly what the lighting will look like once installed.
Please send us the floor plan and any additional information.
Our experts will go over the plans that have been shared.
We create lighting plans in accordance with IES standards and local codes.
Lighting systems that are well-designed provide just the right amount of light without sacrificing functionality or wasting energy. Of course, design elements vary greatly depending on whether the lighting is for the interiors of buildings, the exterior architectural use, landscaping design, streets, or other public spaces. There are both practical and aesthetic considerations in all of these areas, and designers use superior calculation procedures to achieve their design objectives.
DIALux is world-class software that enables our lighting designers and engineers to create high-quality lighting installations using the best lighting equipment available anywhere in the world.
Our engineers lighting specialists ensure that practical and aesthetic requirements are met, as well as that compliance issues are carefully considered. Energy efficiency, for example, is a major consideration, as are the potential effects that standards and lighting regulations may have on lighting design parameters. Other factors to consider include:
Lighting design is also accomplished through the use of photometric data, which is typically included on catalog product pages.
The lumen method is one of the simplest ways to calculate the required average illumination for rooms. A lumen (derived from the Latin word for light) is the S1 unit of luminous flux (or lux) that equals the amount of light emitted per second from a uniform source of one candela in a unit solid angle of one steradian (square radian). A candela is, of course, the international System of Units’ base unit of luminous intensity.
The lumen method is straightforward, relying on utilization factor tables generated from photometric measurements of individual luminaires. Number 1 below shows the simplest calculation. However, as you will see, additional factors and data are required.
Lighting designers and engineers use specifications for lighting calculations on all luminaires and lighting products. The following photometric data is included:
DIALux software includes photometric data which can be accessed with the click of a button.
DIALux software, created by the German Institute for Applied Lighting Technology (DIAL), has been available since 1994. It not only simplifies lighting design but also provides a platform for businesses to market luminaires and other lighting products professionally. While lighting manufacturers pay to have their products featured on the DIALux database, which includes 3D models and photometric data, clients benefit directly because they can see exactly how specified light fixtures and fittings look in the building environment.
DIALux allows lighting designers to plan, calculate, and visualize lighting projects for small spaces, houses, large commercial buildings, parking lots, roads, and landscaped gardens. DIALux can also import CAD data from other architectural and engineering software programs, making it an even more versatile option.
The beauty of DIALux is that our lighting designers can work from a DWG (AutoCAD) drawing in different layers, either from a blank space (a room or building) or from an architect’s flat plan. If the client does not have an architectural plan, we can create a clear presentation of what the lighting will look like using image files, even screenshots.
The software simplifies calculations and allows us to convert flat on-screen drawings into 3-dimensional models, and it includes tools that make this possible quickly and easily.
Building openings are critical, particularly for natural lighting, so we choose doors and windows and modify their dimensions to fit the design of the room or building. Then we arrange furniture and other objects, working from existing photographs or catalogs to make the final result as lifelike as possible. The building was then given a roof.
Placing luminaires is very similar to placing furniture, and being able to work from manufacturer catalogs that are included in the software or installed on the computer is invaluable. Then any type of lighting, suspended, ceiling hung, pendant lights, direct or indirect illumination, even dimmable lighting, can be used.
While positioning luminaires is relatively simple, it is a little more complicated than simply dragging and dropping light fittings and fixtures into an on-screen picture of the room. It is also critical to position them correctly so that they point where they are needed and to calculate the lighting load.
It’s as simple as turning on and off the lights to see what the visual effects are like inside and outside, or how exterior lighting is used. It is truly winning software, both for us and for you, our clients.
Our engineers values the following DIALux features the most:
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