Lumen Designer

Extending Lumen Designer's powerful CAD and calculation system, Lumen Designer Plug-Ins allow you to specialize your software for specific applications.

Advanced Rendering Plug-In (Partially available now!)

Main Features

  • Advanced Materials : a rich assortment of new materials available in the default Designer material library, plus the ability to create your own advanced materials. Available now.
  • Sketch : this feature is a product in itself - the ability to create architectural sketches of your model. An excellent resource for client presentations, you can produce a sketch at the press of a button.
  • Rendering Background : display your own images as a background to the rendered view. This adds another level of realism to your renderings and opens the door to more creative avenues. Available now. The following image uses a sunset picture as a background image:

  • Environmental Effects : want to add fog to your outdoor rendering? How about simulating the effects of smoke in an interior environment and the visibility of Exit signage? This features configures the software to add these effects to your renderings.

Advanced Outdoor Plug-In (Fall '04)

Design Features

  • Import Simply Roadway and Simply Outdoor layouts : Import your optimized layouts created in the Simply Lighting Series.
  • Use and Save Pole Configurations : Create custom poles or select from a library of preset configurations. Also save pole configurations you create to be used in another project.
  • Rack Configurations : Create custom racks ideal for sports and floodlighting projects.
  • Symmetry Layout Tools : Design only a quadrant of your project and Lumen Designer will automatically mirror the design in the other quadrants. Symmetry modes include quadrilateral, bilateral and 45° (especially useful for baseball).
  • Association Layout Tool : Associate multiple fixtures and/or racks together, aim one of the fixtures and Lumen Designer will automatically adjust the aiming of all associated luminaires.
  • Pole and Fixture Iso-Templates : Utilize graphical display of the distribution of the individual luminaires or poles to assist you in placement.

Calculation Features

  • Auto-Recalc - Provides on-the-fly recalculation as changes are made to the design for direct illuminance and light-blockage.
  • Advanced 3D Mesh Grid Creation : Project a grid onto a complex 3D surface that is either imported from DXF/DWG or created internally
  • Calculation Metrics -TV illuminance for unlimited camera locations.
  • Roadway Lighting Calculations - Add a roadway to your site plan and calculate roadway conditions as per IES and CIE guidelines. The following metrics are calculated: roadway luminance, veiling luminance, Small Target Visibility (STV) calculations and changes for Pedestrian Conflict Areas (as defined by IESNA RP-8-00).
  • Area and Sports Lighting Calculations - Compute the following lighting metrics and statistics, as per IES and CIE guidelines: Coefficient of variation (CV), uniformity gradient (UG), glare rating (GR).

Output Features

  • Multiple Printer Setup – The Output Manager offers the ability to specify define up to 4 output paths for printing your project report. Send summaries to 8 ½” x 11” and CAD drawings to a plotter or large paper format printer in the same print job.

 

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