OptiWin
Interior lighting planning software
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The light calcutation program OptiWin is prioritized by Glamox ASA, and is today able to compete with most programs in the same category internationally. Dag Barosen at BAIT AS has assisted Glamox in developing the product since 1987.
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A project can be an office building. All offices in the building is connected to the same project. In addition to searching and extensive reporting functions, the user can copy and exchange projects and rooms with other OptiWin users.
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We have now entered the Room window. Select room shape, select illumination parametres, and select luminaires. Function to import room geometry from CAD Viewer can be reached from this window.
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The program can provide a luminare layout suggestion based on room information given in the room window. In this window luminaires and interior can be placed and rotated in 3 planes. Interior can be assembled and saved for later use.
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The calculation takes into account every luminaire's light distribution and placement, the surfaces of the room and interior. Based on this the lux and luminance level for surfaces or any plane in the room is calculated and displayed as ISOLux curves.
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The room is displayed from any viewpoint.
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The room has been rendered. The rendering takes only a few seconds, depending on the complexity and quality selections for the rendering. When finished, the room can be viewed from any viewpoint without recalculation.
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The CAD Application assembles all information related to export of data from OptiWin to a CAD drawing. Layer handling, use of attributes etc. can be defined. Each attribute can be given a fixed or variable value on export to the drawing. The variable value can be related to the luminaire or the room. The attribute setup can be defined automatically by reading
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When a room in Optiwin is ready to be exported to a CAD drawing, the user can choose the Cad Application to use for the export. For each luminare type in the room, internal or external symbol can be selected.These choices will be saved and defaulted next time the same luminaire is exported.
OptiWin has 5-7000 users in a number of countries. The program has been translated to 10 languages.
Main functions:
- Project oriented planning of luminaire interior in rooms
- Different room shapes and surface properties can be defined
- The room can be furnished with simple or complex objects
- Luminaires can be positioned in the room, and light calculations can be performed and documented thoroughly
- CAD drawings in all DXF- og DWG-format can be integrated in OptiWin through extensive import- and export functions.
A CAD drawing is opened in OptiWin, room shape and position is detected and transferred to OptiWin. The CAD drawing can also be placed as a background when planning the room, to ease luminaire positioning. When luminaires have been positioned correctly, the room can be exported back to the CAD drawing. The user can select to export room shape, calculation results, luminaires, luminaire data, links to web-based product information and more. The luminaires can be represented as symbols or as a box with correct length, with and height. Luminaire information can be exported. The CAD interface is designed to be easily integrated into the different AutoCad add-on systems.
The latest version will have emergency lighting funtionality.
OptiWin can be downloaded from www.glamox.com
Development tools/Technology:
- Visual Basic
- MS Access
- C
Customer:
Glamox