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your model comes from luminaires.

Summary

In this chapter, you learn about:

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Using the Luminaires table

• Adding luminaires to your scene

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Setting photometric properties

• Placing luminaires in your model

• Editing existing luminaires

• Setting luminaire processing parameters.

About Luminaires

Luminaires represent both the physical appearance and the photometric properties of a lighting fixture. A luminaire is simply a block that has been assigned photometric properties. Luminaire blocks and regular blocks are moved, scaled, and rotated in the same ways.

Luminaires and blocks can be saved together in block libraries (.blk files).

Using the Luminaires Table

All luminaires available in your scene are listed in the

Luminaires table.

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To display the Luminaires table:

Click the Luminaires table button on the Tables toolbar, or choose Edit | Tables | Luminaires.

Note: If the Tables toolbar is not displayed, choose

Tools | Toolbars, and select Tables from the Toolbars dialog that appears.

Luminaires Table Context Menu

Right-click the Luminaires table to display the context menu.

Luminaires table button

The Luminaires table appears.

Luminaire preview

Selected luminaire

The icon next to each luminaire represents the source type and luminous intensity distribution (LID) of the luminaire selected. The luminaire preview displays the luminaire currently selected in the Luminaires table. Use the interactive view controls to change the view of the luminaire in the preview. For more information, see “Customizing Block and Luminaire

Previews” on page 22.

Double-click any luminaire name to activate the

Luminaire Properties dialog, which contains tools for editing the photometric characteristics of the selected

luminaire. See “Setting Photometric Properties” on page 132.

The following options are available:

Use: To:

Isolate

Return to Full

Model

Query

Instances

Place the Luminaire in Isolate mode and display the Luminaires

Properties dialog.

End Isolate mode and display the full model.

Highlight instances of the selected luminaire in the Graphic window, and display luminaire information on the status bar.

Rename

Change to

Current Layer

Luminaire

Processing

Rename the selected luminaire definition.

Move the selected luminaire definition to the current layer.

Display the Luminaire Processing dialog for the selected luminaire definition.

Photometrics Display the Luminaire Properties dialog for the selected luminaire definition.

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