FlucsPro
Sophisticated tool for analysing combined artificial and natural light-levels for daylight harvesting.
FlucsPro offers two key lighting design and analysis functions:
- Performs lumen and glare design calculations to work out required electric light fittings based on user defined lighting conditions criteria
- Point-by-point analysis of light levels for artificial light, daylight or a combination of the two using a calculated or user defined luminaire layout
Both can be carried out for a room or group of rooms.
- Calculate number of electric light fittings required in a room
- Quick early-stage analysis before testing in greater detail in RadianceIES
- Significantly reduces time taken to design and analyse lighting schemes
- Investigate Indoor daylighting conditions & determine Daylight Factors & Light Levels
- Detailed point-by-point simulations for both artificial & natural light
- Compare against LEED, BREEAM, and other industry thresholds
- Produce images of daylight levels, daylight factors and threshold analyses
How it works
Lighting Design
- Select the room or group of rooms to analyse
- Set reflectance values for the room surfaces
- Specify luminaires and lamps to use
- Set your required design criteria (illumination level, working plane height etc.)
- Include wall thickness as a margin correction value
- Perform design calculations
- Number/position of required fittings are automatically displayed and populated in the 3D model
Lighting Analysis
(from a FlusPro design calculation or use a scheme specified in LightPro)
- Select the room or group of rooms to analyse
- Set the reflectance values for the room surfaces
- Include / exclude fitting information
- Set the analysis options and perform point-by-point calculations
- Review your results – either as Daylight Factor or Lighting Level values
- Define the daylight threshold you want to test against if required
Data Entry Options
Lighting Design
- Scope defined by selected room or group of rooms
- Reflectance values defined for room surfaces
- Specify required lighting conditions: illuminance, maintenance factor, optional limiting glare index
- Working plane heights can be set
- Optional constraints on layout can be set: snap to ceiling grid, max number of fittings, offsets / spacing limits (length, width or both)
- Specify luminaires and lamps to use
- Edit the provided database of lamps and luminaires using LightPro if required
- Lighting Analysis (from a FlusPro design calculation or use a scheme specified in LightPro)
- Analysis scope defined by selected room or group of rooms
- Reflectance values defined for room surfaces
- Task areas can be defined within room surfaces or working planes
- Working plane heights can be set
- Calculation grid size can be adjusted
- Include / exclude light fitting information
Analysis Options
Lighting Design
- Lumen and glare calculations
Lighting Analysis
- Artificial or natural lighting calculations, or both
- User defined thresholds or benchmarks
- Illuminance or Luminance
- Horizontal, vertical or semi-cylindrical illuminance
- Default daylight zenith luminance for a CIE standard overcast sky
- Inter-reflection calculations can be turned on (choice of simple average value or full progressive radiosity) or turned off
- Option to break larger light fittings into smaller areas based on calculation grid size
- Optional use of shading surfaces:adjacent buildings, topographical shades, local shades
- Define the daylight threshold you want to test against if required
Output Options
Lighting Design
Displays calculated luminaire arrays:
- Select one rectangular layout from a choice of viable options
- Displays reasons why array fails the design calculations if applicable
- Gives average lighting level and glare index for selected array
- Number/position of required fittings are automatically displayed and populated in the 3D model
Lighting Analysis
Results are given for artificial lighting, daylighting or a combination of the two. Display of artificial and daylight levels can be toggled independently – when both are on the default daylight zenith luminance is used for converting daylight factor to illuminance.
- 3D model visualisation of Light Level plots
- Select rooms to display
- Select room surfaces, working planes and task areas to display
- Display as contour lines, false colour, threshold or as grey-shaded grid cells
- Foot Candle or Lux options
- 3D model visualisation of Daylight Factor plots
- Select rooms to display
- Select room surfaces, working planes and task areas to display
- Display as contour lines, false colour, threshold or as grey-shaded grid cells
- Display of Light Levels and Daylight Factors can be toggled independently
- Summary Table showing minimum, maximum and average levels, plus uniformity and diversity information
- Threshold Table showing individual room threshold levels and building area-weighted % above threshold
- Results easily exported, copied or printed for use in client reports
Source:- https://www.iesve.com/software/virtual-environment/flucspro
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