Getting Started

Learn ElumTools

1. Validate lighting fixture families in ElumTools Luminaire Manager:

• Assign photometric sources to your Lighting Fixture families (if not already).
• 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 the workplace or floor using the ElumTools Add Points command.
• Place additional points on other surfaces using the 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, and try using the Pseudocolor mode to quantify illuminance on every surface.
• Navigate to the appropriate Autodesk® 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 and Default Analysis.
• 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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