The entire concept of ElumTools as a Revit Add-in is based around the ability to leverage content that is already present in the Revit model.
Selecting the ElumTools tab reveals the icons for the various ElumTools commands. When ElumTools is installed in Revit, it appears with its own tab on the top menu bar. With ElumTools the need to utilize external software to compute illuminance from light sources placed in Revit is no longer necessary. With today’s illumination design software not getting the job done, there remains a need to quickly compute basic illuminance from electric sources within individual environments in a BIM model and tabulate the results in a way consistent with the behavior of the BIM software.ĮlumTools is a calculation Add-in used to predict the performance of electric lighting systems within the Autodesk® Revit® Architecture or MEP software. The reason for this is two-fold: current illumination software utilizes a complete environment approach to the calculation of illuminance, which is burdened by the large size of the BIM model, and the complexity of exported geometry from BIM is beyond the needs of practical calculation of workplane or surface illuminance. To date, the industry standard illumination design software programs lack the ability to easily exchange information with models in the BIM environment. The growth of BIM (Building Information Modeling) software is exploding, and in many architectural design and engineering firms it is almost completely replacing CAD software for the purposes of architectural and building system design. (Construction document Revit model, and the AGI lighting calculation model.) Then when you make changes to your light fixtures, you make those changes in the Revit model only, (one place) instead of making the changes in the Revit model and in the AGI model. Using a software that is an add-on of Revit, you can do the calculations right within Revit, and not have to continuously update separate models. This new tool will be a much more efficeint way of doing point-by-point lighting calculations rather than importing 2D plans into AGI, creating 3D spaces and 3D objects that are representing the rooms in AGI, (which has already been done by the architect in Revit), so why redo that work? Then as the model updates and changes, you have to redo all that work of reimporting the 2D autocad file, and recreate the 3D spaces and 3D objects. Today, they author four design tools for the lighting industry: AGi32, Photometric Toolbox, FlashTools, and the newest addition, ElumTools, a fully integrated lighting calculation add-in for Autodesk Revit.
who produces calculation tools for the architectural lighting marketplace.
ElumTools is from Lighting Analysts, Inc.
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