When doing design work, it is often handy to develop several design alternatives and have the ability to easily present...
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If you've ever tried to do daylight calculations, using any piece of software, you've likely run into questions and perhaps...
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Since day one of ElumTools, Revit has coexisted and offered several powerful tools for electrical analysis, including Lighting Power Density...
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When a calculation is invoked, ElumTools automatically checks all Lighting Fixture families in the environment to determine whether the family...
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The latest generation of ElumTools is packed with new features, mostly geared to exterior lighting analysis, with some interior applications...
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Often when using ElumTools, you won't be interested in a rendering and will only need the point-by-point illuminance values, and...
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The Layout Assistant is an easy avenue to quickly estimate average illuminance levels and make adjustments to luminaire quantities as...
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The latest ElumTools update includes dramatic new capabilities to use 3D views to sort the portions of the model you...
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Stairs present an interesting challenge when placing calculation points in ElumTools.  Adding area based points, such as space points or...
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ElumTools now allows calculation points to be associated with both Filled Regions and Areas.  That's right. It is no longer...
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Every time a calculation grid is added to the project, ElumTools places an instance of the ElumTools Calculation Points Family...
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Revit has an interesting feature that allows you to load duplicate linked models with the same name.  This can be...
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