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From
a proud heritage that began over 20 years ago, Lumen
Micro has long been a standard for lighting design,
analysis, and specification. Lumen Micro 2000 adds several
enhancements to make it even more productive. Lumen
Micro 2000 is even easier to use and learn.
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Summary
Lumen
Micro provides you with tools to create and simulate
lighting layouts for both indoor and outdoor applications
in a quick and easy to use manner. Interior spaces
and exterior sites may be easily modeled using Lumen
Micro's advanced CAD capabilities, then accurate numerical
and graphical results are only a click away.
Since
1983, Lumen Micro has been recognized as an industry standard
for lighting design, specification, and analysis. Lumen
Micro has provided lighting designers and specifiers around
the world with a manufacturer-independent, reliable, and easy-to-use
software tool that is field-tested for unmatched accuracy.
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New
Features
Lumen
Micro 2000 hosts an impressive list of new features. Among
other features and improvements, the following features were
introduced in version 2000:
- Color
Renderings - now you can add color to your design. Lumen
Micro allows you to specify any color for included surfaces
- interior or exterior.
- AutoCAD
DWG / DXF Support - import and export of AutoCAD DWG
/ DXF files has been significantly improved. Support for
AutoCAD 2000 is also included.
- Auto
Layout - enter your target light level and LM will automatically
create and position fixtures to produce the correct light
levels.
- New
CAD Features - the CAD is faster than ever, with new
dynamic Orbit and Pan modes added. You can also view your
drawing with hidden line removal and in solids.
- HTML
Output - save your output as HTML files for easy communication
across the Internet.
- Product
Library - LTI's extensive product library has been updated
to include even more products from 70 lighting manufacturers.
There
are many other enhancements that have improved the overall
performance and ease-of-use of Lumen Micro.
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Standard
Features
Lumen
Micro 2000 includes the following standard features:
- Windows
Interface - Lumen Micro utilizes the Windows
operating systems to provide you with a familiar graphical
user interface.
- CAD
Interface - Rooms, objects, and luminaires can
be inserted, moved, copied, and deleted with the mouse.
Numerous three dimensional views provide excellent visualization
and manipulation capabilities.
- Product
Library - Lumen Micro comes with a photometric
library of approximately 20,000 products from 70 manufacturers.
- Lumen
Helper - a step-by-step checklist for producing
a lighting layout.
- CAD
Import/Export - Import and export DXF and
DWG files to assist you in producing lighting designs.
- Photorealistic
Renderings - View a grayscale or color
rendering of your design to confirm that your appearance
and visibility goals have been achieved. The
renderings provided by Lumen Micro are based upon
years of research into accurate reproduction of visual
response.
- Object
Library - Lumen Micro includes a library of
predefined objects, including partitions, tables, and chairs
that can be added to your design with the click of a mouse.
- Formatted
Output - Print professional looking output in
seconds. Lumen Micro includes a variety of report
types.
- Integrated
Link to AutoDesk's Lightscape 3.2 - Enables
you to use Lightscape to generate photo-realistic
color renderings of your Lumen Micro projects.
- Pole
Configuration - Create custom poles or select
from a library of preset configurations.
- Roadway
Lighting Calculations - Add a roadway to
your site plan and calculate roadway luminance, RP-8
compliance.
- Iso-Templates
- Graphical display of the distribution of the individual
luminaires, poles, or racks to assist you in placement.
- Improved
Luminaire Aiming and Placement - Place and aim
luminaires in one easy step, and moving your aiming point
will automatically re-aim your luminaires.
- CAD
Functionality - Lumen Micro allows you to select
objects via windowing, it features improved zooming, panning,
and refresh speed in CAD views, and it utilizes layers like
AutoCAD's.
- Enhanced
Control of Contour Maps - Allows you to control
every aspect of iso-contour generation.
- Unlimited
Grid Size - Create calculation grids of unlimited
size with an unlimited number of calculation points.
- Project
File Merging - Merge multiple project design
files into a single project file. Now you and others
can work simultaneously on different parts of a large design.
- Custom
Output - New functionality allows you to customize
any output to any size, including standard blueprint and
plotter sizes; allows you to create detailed blueprints
that include your company logo, title block, luminaire schedule,
site plan, etc.
- Auto-Recalc
- This new feature for outdoor lighting analyses provides
on-the-fly recalculation as changes are made to the design.
- Integrated
Quantity Estimator - You can automatically determine
how many luminaires are required to achieve your target
illuminance level.
- Sports
Light Rack Configuration - Create custom racks
ideal for sports and floodlighting projects.
- Statistical
Areas - The addition of statistical areas allows
you to view calculated statistics on specified areas of
any size or shape.
- Shaded
Plots of Calculation Grids - Generate
gray-scale shaded plots for individual calculation grids
and see them in CAD views.
- Global
Daylighting Maps - Global maps make the determination
of longitude and latitude for daylighting analysis as simple
as clicking on your location.
- Undo
- Single step undo allows you to backtrack to the previous
action.
- Electronic
Documentation - Lumen Micro includes an electronic
manual with hyper-text links.
- Free
Product Support - All LTI products come with
30 days of free telephone support from the date your copy
is licensed. In addition, customers may utilize unlimited
free email and fax support.
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Product
Reviews
Here's
what some of our customers are saying about Lumen Micro 2000:
- "Fast
calculations and instant updating are tremendous...thanks
for making my job much easier" - Outdoor
Lighting Engineer in California
- "...best
outdoor program I've ever used." - Outdoor
User in Florida
- "The
software is easy to learn and to utilize." - User
in Missouri
- "Overall,
I am very happy with the new features and have not experienced
any problems or error messages when working in the new program.
The new features are easy to use and work well with the
existing program features."
- LM2000 Beta Tester
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Requirements
Lumen
Micro 2000 has the following minimum requirements:
- Windows
95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, Me, and XP
- 64Mb
RAM
- SVGA
Graphics Card
- ~50Mb
Disk space
The
following are recommended hardware requirements:
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