FlucsPro
Performs analysis of artificial and daylighting to investigate lighting levels on a notional working plane or any other physical surface in the room. The analysis can use luminaires placed by LightPro, and windows and openings from the FlucsPro can also design regular layouts of luminaires using calculations based on required illuminance and maximum glare according to UK CIBSE methods.
FlucsDL is the daylighting-only version of FlucsPro.
luminaires, lighting design, lighting analysis, photometric data, radiosity N/A Intended for use by building services engineers and architects. Basic knowledge of Windows required. Engineers, architects, many throughout the UK, Europe, Australia & USA.
electrical building services engineers, architects. A simple dialogue box allows the reflectances and transmittances of selected surfaces to be edited globally or individually. Other dialogue boxes allow the creation of notional working planes and task areas. Dialogue boxes also allow the design or analysis calculations to be performed for all selected rooms in one go, and give full control of the calculation parameters. Output may be reviewed at any stage. The output is in HTML format, which can be copied to Windows clipboard or saved. It is organised by room and calculation, with a summary of the calculation status for all rooms. User settings allow the user to control the level of detail on output, from a basic summary to full details of the illumination levels at all points on all surfaces. The 3d views of selected surfaces can be overlaid with the calculated illuminance levels displayed as contours, filled contours, grey shading, or a threshold contour. The view bitmaps may be copied to the Windows clipboard or saved to file. A threshold table is also available � useful for daylighting evaluation. PC compatibles running Windows 95/98/NT. C++, Visual Basic, Fortran Includes a lighting design module. The analysis calculations are simple but with options for advanced users. The graphics are attractive. The output is to some extent customisable. It has access to the extensive LightPro database. Not intended to be a full visualisation package. It has only two sky models, no direct solar models, no image overlays, no luminaire geometry, only diffuse reflections, no angle-dependant transmittances, no light colour analysis, not a sophisticated calculation method. Unlike gaming visualisations, it is not optimised for speed. Advanced options have to be used with care and some understanding. Also at present there is no link with lighting controls and energy analysis. Company: IES Ltd Address:
Helix Building, West of Scotland Science Park Telephone: +44 (141) 945 8500 Facsimile: +44 (141) 945 8501 E-mail: Website: Contact IES at the above address or visit the web site.Keywords
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Glasgow G20 0SP
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