Getting Started

Learn ElumTools

1. Validate lighting fixtures families in ElumTools Luminaire Manager:
   • Assign photometric sources to your Lighting Fixture families (if not already there)
   • Correct source position if necessary
   • Verify Lumens and Watts
   • Add Light Loss Factors
2. Prepare materials for lighting calculations in ElumTools Materials Manager:
   • Check surface reflectances and colors for Walls, Ceilings, Floors and “Map” if necessary
   • Check surface type for transparent and transmissive surfaces
3. Add calculation grids for point-by-point illuminance:
   • Add calculation points to workplane or floor using the ElumTools Add Points command
   • Place additional points on other surfaces as desired using ElumTools Add Points Planar Face command
4. Calculate Rooms, Spaces, Areas, Regions, and/or Views.
   • Use these to determine which portion of the model to consider for analysis.
5. View the results
   • Interact with the visualization to understand the lighting effect, try using the Pseudocolor mode to quantify illuminance on every surface
   • Navigate to the appropriate Revit view you want to see the point-by-point information displayed, then use the ElumTools View Results command to see the values.
   • Experiment with Revit’s Analysis Visualization Framework (AVF) for point display by selecting the View Properties, Default Analysis
6. Schedule Statistics
   • Build a Revit schedule using the built-in command.

ElumTools is installed from the MSI-based installer. It can be uninstalled from the Windows control panel.

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