DIALux:
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DIALux is the professional light planning software used by architects, light designers, light experts and light decorators all over the world.
It simulates interior and exterior lighting conditions and calculates and verifies all the parameters for indoor and outdoor lighting systems, as well as streets and tunnels, offering clear and accurate results in accordance with latest interior architecture standards.
Here you can download the latest version of the DIALux light planning software.
Lamps Plug-in
DIALux offer the possibility to specify the light source inside a luminaire in order to meet the requirements of a specific lighting project.
Disano Plug-in Download
An evolutionary step in the development of DIALux: DIALux evo
The innovative feature of the DIALux evo lies in its new building concept. Users can create geometries in a virtual space. This can be a single room serving as a model, or an entire floor or even a whole building or several buildings in an urban setting. A planner designing the lighting for a building, can view the final result by placing himself anywhere, either inside or outside the building, there is no difference. This feature is made possible thanks to a smart building model that allows users to walk easily inside the created scenes. To concentrate on the lighting design of a given room and focus on a specific task, the user can simply fade out the rest.
Instead of offering building tools which are similar to those of an architect, DIALux evo features completely new methods that build geometries based on a .dwg file. This building process is supported by many tools and automatic mechanisms.
DIALux evo provides users with a useful tool to simplify the positioning of luminaires. For example, it can automatically select the best solutions for any type of room. Luminaires are automatically defined in the required quantity, positioned according to their design and arranged accordingly.
In the positioning process DIALux evo automatically groups the luminaires and shows – without the intervention of the planner – at least one light scene. Once the lights scenes have been calculated, the planners can fine-tune the dimming values or RGB values in almost real time without having to make new calculations.
Photometric data
We recommend using the eulumdat / ies / uld photometric data updated daily in our online catalogue (Disano Fosnova).
Our new download service allows you to have the latest available changes/updates as soon as they are made.
To download the necessary photometric data, simply open the data sheet of the desired product for each single code:
File BIM
Disano illuminazione, which has always been attentive to the needs of lighting designers, has decided to provide the market with a further service by making its BIM files available for use.
The BIM files of Disano’s (and Fosnova’s) main products can be downloaded from the website. BIM files are digital models of lighting fixtures containing all relevant information (such as dimensions, flux, power, etc.) and that can be imported in modern lighting designs, where this type of methodology is being used more than ever.
BIM stands for “Building Information Modelling” and is defined by the National Institute of Building Science as the “digital representation of physical and functional characteristics of an object”.
Therefore BIM is neither a product nor a software tool. It is a “container collecting all the information relating to a building” where you can enter graphics (such as drawings) and specific technical attributes (such as technical data sheets and characteristics) throughout the building’s entire life cycle.
When drawing objects like windows, ceilings or walls, it is possible to associate graphical information (wall thickness, height, and so on) to information such as thermal transmittance, sound insulation, and so on. As with CAD projects, where you can use previously created CAD (2D or 3D) objects without drawing them from scratch every time, BIM too, allows maintaining objects across different projects.
While CAD design enables processing a project through 2D or 3D drawings, BIM is not limited to visual information or rendering but specifies the functionality and performance of each BIM object used in the project or the interior of the processed building.
BIM is, in reality, a collaborative design method as it allows integrating the information of every phase of the design into a single model, including all the elements of a building, from architectural, structural, MEP engineering, energy performance and management. For this reason, it can be used equally by plant engineers, structural engineers, architects, constructors, fitters, testers, etc.
Therefore, the three-dimensional model contains information regarding volume and dimensions, materials, appearance, and technical characteristics that might get lost during communication with other studios and computer platforms.
The BIM technology offers multiple advantages such as greater efficiency and productivity, fewer errors, less downtime, reduced costs, greater interoperability, maximum information sharing, and more accurate and consistent control of the project.
Also, a BIM project provides clients with the possibility of having a virtual rendering of the building’s lifecycle, even after the design phase is complete. In this way, it will be easier to monitor materials ageing and improve maintenance scheduling.
