What about the walls? The floor?

Let's use Lumen Designer's Room Wizard to have all these surfaces automatically created.

Click the Create Area button on the Designer Shortcut Menu.

Now, we follow the Room Wizard steps to create the space.

The first step defines this as a 'room' or an 'area'. For interior spaces, we'll use 'Room'.

The second step allows us to name the room - Pool Room. This will also be used as a default for grid names, etc, within the space.

The third step allows us to define the boundary for the room. Any shape (including curves) will work; however, we'll use the Select option to use the polyline with arcs we added above.

After clicking Select, the Wizard prompts you to select the polyline.

NOTE: Selections could include polylines, etc, that were imported via DWG or DXF. This is useful when 2D or 3D drawings are available for your project.

After selecting the polyline as the boundary, you'll be asked to select the ceiling type. For this project, we'll select the Complex Ceiling option.

The next step allows us to select a gabled roof, barrel vault, or a mesh-based ceiling - which can be any arbritrary mesh. The extruded ceiling we created above is a mesh, so this will work.

Note that for mesh-based ceilings, you can select multiple meshes. This makes it even easier to work with complex geometry..

Once we've selected the ceiling, Lumen Designer will automatically create the walls and floor to match!

The shell of our space is done.

Note: Lumen Designer can also automatically create a grid at the workplane, or any z-elevation, as the final step of the Room Wizard. In this case, a polygonal grid would be created due to the shape of the space. A real time saver!

Now the pool. Using the polyline tool, we can draw the outline.

We then use the extrudewithcaps with a negative value to build the pool walls, floor, and a top.

Using the explode command, we can break up the 'pool' entity into each surface. We then flip the orientation of the pool 'top' to face up and lower it a foot or so...to make our water surface!

Note: We'll emulate the water surface using a rippled glass material.

Now that the room and pool have been created, we can add the lighting.

Lumen Designer can import all the major photometric file formats (including IES, EULUMDAT, CIE, TM14, etc).

You can also access the included product libraries from participating manufacturers. Designer's product libraries will soon include more than 100,000 lighting products.

For this example, we selected some indirect linear fluorescents for the uplighting and some downlights.

Once a luminaire type is added to your lighting schedule, you can define how new instances of this luminaire will be mounted. This can be especially helpful for suspended fixtures when mounting to a sloped or curved ceiling - Lumen Designer will automatically mount the luminaires appropriately.

In this case, we can use a fixed Mounting Height for the indirects and Ceiling Recessed for the downlights.

After adding the lighting and selecting materials for our pool project, we review the model.

Running some basic calculations and rendering the view is good step at this point.

Optional: We can take this project a bit further by adding some interior objects - such as chairs for Designer's Object Library. We also change the material of the far wall to be glass. This will allow daylight in (and electric light out).

After adding some additional objects, changing some materials, and adding a background image (Colorado in the autumn). We're ready to create a rendering for our client.

Note: In this case, a hybrid rendering was used to bring out even more detail: textures of the walls, reflections in the water and windows, and crisp shadows.

Like swimming pools? Using the methods outlined above, you can create some powerful images.

What does it look like if we place lighting in the pool?