Elumtools 2025

Elumtools 2025

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Lighting Analysts, Inc.
Lighting Anaylsts, Inc.

General Usage Instructions

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 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, 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.

Screenshots

Commands

Installation/Uninstallation

Additional Information

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

Known Issues

Contact

Company Name: Lighting Analysts, Inc.

Author/Company Information

Lighting Analysts, Inc.

Version History

Version Number Version Description

2025.4.0.2

Added New Photometric Format Support TM-32 & TM-33.
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