dialux-evo-tutorial-5-pdf-file-creating-a-complete-interior-and-exterior-project

DIALux evo Tutorial Ezzat Baroudi DIALux evo Tutorial Tutorial Creating A completer interior and exterior Project Even though this tutorial has lots of advanced features of DIALux evo that is useful for many regular users of DIALux, however it is written with lots of descriptions to make it easy for beginners and people who have little or no previous knowledge about the software, so I hope you will find it as easy as I thought To understand this tutorial you have to start with Tutorial which explains more basic function of the software that might not be explained here, and you will find some of steps that refers to tutorial 4, DIALux evo Tutorial could be found @ http://ezzatbaroudi.wordpress.com/2012/12/28/dialux-evo-tutorials-4-creating-a-completeproject-from-a-to-z-with-dialux-evo/ Please help me improve this tutorial by adding your comments there is any of the steps not clear or if you have any idea for improvements You can add your comments to the bottom of the online version of this tutorial @ http://ezzatbaroudi.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/dialux-evo-tutorial-5-creating-a-completeinterior-and-exterior-project/ Note: the Lighting layout of this Tutorial is made random and is not meant to show a good practice of lighting design; the sole purpose is to show the different feature of DIALux evo with many different luminaries e.g RGBW and RGB DIALux evo Tutorial Ezzat Baroudi In this tutorial you will learn Handling AutoCAD files Creating Site Creating building Using Reference help lines Naming Site, Building & rooms Creating interior of a building Using Assessment Zone Inserting Apertures (Windows & Doors) Using cutout for wall ceiling & Floor 10 Using Room Elements 11 Inserting Luminaires and objects 12 Using Duplicate Story 13 Creating balcony 14 Creating Double height 15 Using cutout for Faỗade 16 Inserting dimension & text For this Tutorial you should create a project like the one Bellow DIALux evo Tutorial Ezzat Baroudi Throughout this tutorial the following definition will be used MODE SELECTION Marked in the blue box in the above image The mode could be contraction, EN12464, Light, calculation or documentation TOOL SELECTION Tool Selection marked in red is the vertical tool bar which has many tools according to the mode selection CAD VIEW SELECTION Marked in yellow where you can select the site, Building, story or room For any of the above spaces you can select 3D, floorplan or one of the elevations (front, right, back, left) The Manipulator Marked in black box, you can move, rotate, scale, use measure tape or zoom all Display option Marked in green box has many display option where you can hide or show reference line, imported cad etc Action and property window Marked in pink box Here you can take an action or change a property of an object, luminaire, room surface etc DIALux evo Tutorial Step-1 Ezzat Baroudi Creating a project Start the software then select Outdoor and building planning Step-2 Importing Multiple cad files Make sure you are in CONSTRUCTION mode and select DRAWINGS TOOL Try to find a project where you have multiple CAD files for the same project like Ceiling layout, Furniture layout etc Or may be ground floor layout, first floor layout Try to find at least two drawings DIALux evo Tutorial Ezzat Baroudi Click import select more than one file and open to import all the files Importing cad files is not limited at this stage, even later you can add more files if you wish Unlike DIALux which is limited to one cad file With DIALux evo you can import many files to design a complete building! Note: if you don’t see the text beside the icon click on the question mark (?) On the right corner of the window to show the descriptive text After importing you can see the file you have imported, the one in the orange is the current selection The check box to allow you to show or hide the CAD file DIALux evo Tutorial Step-3 Ezzat Baroudi Finding the current scale Many times we receive cad files, without any idea about the unit of the file.so first verify the file by zooming to one architectural element, like doors or windows and measure the dimension if you have realistic values then your current scale is correct it you have unrealistic values like the one I have, then change the scale Figuring out the scale is easy, the door I have is 1000m, it should be meter as realistic value then the real scale is millimeter DIALux evo Tutorial Step-4 Ezzat Baroudi Changing the current scale Before you change the scale of the file make sure you select the file by clicking on the file, to make sure it is your current selection look the orange square Change the units form the scale window by clicking on the drop down menu Tip: if you have many cad file you can you the search box to search by name Finally scale the other files to the correct scale After you scale all the files ZOOM ALL form the top menu bar, if you cannot see the files then you have to put to 0, 0, the positioning window under the scale window DIALux evo Tutorial Step-5 Ezzat Baroudi Moving and rotating the cad files Imagine you have ceiling plan and furniture layout plan which are located apart and you want to move one above another then select the ceiling layout cad and click on move Move form common reference point on both drawing e.g.( window, door, elevator shaft, corner of a room) form point which is the current selected cad to point which is the target point You can rotate the drawing in the rotation box by putting the value of the rotation angle DIALux evo Tutorial Step-6 Ezzat Baroudi Other properties of the imported cad files If you scroll down the side bar you will find other two windows which could be minimized The layer and file options windows Click on the small arrow to open the option You can open the layer window and change the color of the cad layers, that is very handy if the color is not matching well with background like very light color on white background The file options contain an option if you want to save the cad inside the DIALux evo file, but this could make the file very huge This option could be useful if you want to give the file to somebody else, so you can give him DIALux file with all cad and the modification you made in moving, rotation and layer colors Step-7 Removing the cad files For this tutorial we will continue without cad files as background, so remove the cad files by selecting the file and right click mouse and select remove, alternately select the file +Del key Step-8 Creating a site Go to Site view in the construction mode DIALux evo Tutorial Ezzat Baroudi Make sure form the display option at the upper right corner, the SHOW COORDINATE SYSTEM is activated if not then selected, this will show you the x,y,z axis @0,0,0 position with lines for each axis try to activate and deactivate to see the difference, but for now make it on On the FLOORPLAN VIEW zoom in to the coordinate system by rotating the middle wheel of the mouse pan by moving the mouse while pushing the wheel down Select Draw rectangular floor element 10