LightPro

Easy-to-use tool for placing and editing luminaires within rooms in the 3D building model, and for managing databases of luminaires and lamps. Once luminaires have been placed, you can use FlucsPro to perform lighting analyses to investigate lighting levels on the working plane or any other surface in the room. You can also use RadianceIES software to perform sophisticated 3D lighting simulations, generating glare or lux information and high quality images. LightPro contains a large database of luminaires and lamps, and also enables you to add or import other luminaire data.

Keywords

luminaires, lighting analysis, photometric data

Validation/Testing

N/A

Expertise Required

Intended for use by building services engineers and architects. Basic knowledge of Windows 95/98/NT required.

Users

Engineers, architects, many throughout the UK, Europe, Australia & USA.

Audience

Electrical building services engineers, architects

Input

The lighting database is reviewed and edited in a Windows Explorer-style view with clickable headers and context-sensitive menus. Property sheets may be displayed for editing by double-clicking an item. The luminaire (plus lamp and lamp colour) required for placement in the building are selected from the database using a dialogue box with a set of Windows Explorer-style views of the data. Data may be imported from or exported to photometric files in IESNA, EULUMDAT or CIBSE format.

Individual luminaires are placed by clicking in the view. Arrays of luminaires are placed using a dialogue box. A ceiling grid can be created for assistance in placement. Placed luminaires may be edited using the dialogue bar and popup dialogue boxes.

Output

Various views of the data may be printed or copied to the Windows clipboard. The 3d photometric web of a luminaire may be viewed from all angles and a movie may be made.

Computer Platform

CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.4 GHz+, or AMD Athlon 1400+ CPU Faster processors strongly recommended for frequent use of detailed simulation modules such as Radiance and APACHE-sim.

Memory: 512 Mb fast RAM (266Mhz+)

Hard Drive: 500 Mb free for installation, 1Gb free for Project data. Annual thermal simulation results for large models can produce large data files e.g. >50MB.

Optical Drive: CDRW, enabling large projects to be securely backed up.

Video Card: OpenGL compatible video card with 128 Mb RAM. Suggest GEForce or Radeon based cards.

Operating System: Windows 2000/XP.

Minimum screen resolution - 1024 x 768 pixels.

Programming Language

C++, Visual Basic, Fortran

Strengths

Provides a single method of selecting and placing luminaires within the building for use in both FlucsPro and Radiance. The database contains many thousands of luminaires from manufacturers� data. The photometric import facility allows independence from particular lighting manufacturers or groups of manufacturers.

Weaknesses

External photometric files cannot be used directly but can be imported. No ancillary data such as catalogues, datasheets, photographs, etc. as provided in some packages favoured by manufacturers.

Contact

Availability

Contact IES at the above address or visit the web site.

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