Tutorial 1 for Warehouse Lighting Design

Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design Design requirements: Luminaire: Lux level: Mounting height: Room dimension: Slope of roof:

Nikkon AL25400 M0400 6407 c/w EYE IWASAKI MF400X/U lamp 300 lux 8.5m 48m (L) x 20m (W) x 13m (H) 25°

1. Click on New Interior Project to launch DIALux’s template for indoor design. DIALux will then direct to screen as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 2. Edit the Length, Width and Height according to the values stated in Figure 2 and click on OK button.

Length: 48.000m Height: 13.000m

Width: 20.000m

OK button

Figure 2 3. The slope of the roof is given at 25° and sloping on both directions (Gable roof). Calculations is done as following: Length of roof (in one direction) = 10 m Slope of roof = 25°

a 25° 10 m Length of a = 10 (tan 25°), tan = tangent in geometry terms = 4.663m

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 4. Click on Object tab in Project Manager, then select Room elements
Sloped ceiling. From the previous calculation, we have determined then length (10m), width (length of the room = 48m) and height (length of a) of the sloped ceiling. Insert the values as shown in Figure 3 and click on Paste.

X: 24.000m

Y: 5.000m

L: 10.000m

W: 48.000m

X: 0.0°

Y: 0.0°

H: 4.663m

Z: 90.0°

Paste button

Figure 3 5. As gable roof is symmetrical, right-click on the Sloped Ceiling and select Copy along a line.

Figure 4

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 6. Edit the fields as shown in Figure 5 and click on Copy.

Number of Copies: 1 X: 0.000m

Y: 10.000m

Z: 0.000m

Copy button

Figure 5 7. As the roof is mirrored, the angle of rotation of the generated Sloped Ceiling has to be changed. Click on the Sloped Ceiling and edit the values as shown in Figure 6.

X: 0.0°

Y: 0.0°

Z: -90.0°

Figure 6

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 8. Click on the 3D Standard View icon to see the completed model.

3D Standard view icon

Figure 7 9. Click on Luminaire selection tab at the bottom of Project Manager, as shown in the red circle in Figure 8. Select NIKKON from the databse and double click with mouse, Nikkon’s catalogue will pop up in a new window with the range of luminaire to be chosen from (Figure 9).

NIKKON

Luminaire Selection tab

Figure 8

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 10. Select Highbay from the dropdown in Luminaire Category

Highbay

Figure 9 11. Select AL25400 M0400 6407 from Housing Model and click on Send Luminaire to DIALux Project to submit the model to DIALux for selection.

AL25400 M0400 6407 Send Luminaire to DIALux Project

Figure 12

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 12. Go back to the Floor Plan view by clicking on the Floor Plan icon. Draw a help line accross the centre of the room by clicking on the help line icon and draw a line at the center of the room as shown in Figure 13.

Figure 13 13. Click on Field Arrangement icon and go to Arrangement tab and click on Symmetrical Within in Arrangement column.

Luminaire, Mounting, Arrangement tab Field Arrangement icon Symmetrical Within

Figure 14

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 14. Conduct some simple calculation to determine the number of luminaires to be used. Size of the room: 48m (L) x 20m (W) Mounting height: 8.5m To start, assume the spacing between luminaires to be the same as mounting height. In the x-direction, we will have 48m of space. Dividing 48 by 8.5, we will have 5.65. Round it up to 5 numbers of 8.5m of spacing gives of 6 luminaires in the x-direction. In the y-direction, divide 20 by 8.5 will give us 2.35. This will mean 3 numbers of luminaires in the y-direction. 15. Click on the Mounting tab and put in the values as shown in Figure 15.

Rows: 3 Luminaires per Row: 6 Distance X: 8.500m Y: 8.500m User defined Mounting height: 8.500m

Arrow head

Figure 15

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 16. Drag the arrow head towards the intersection point using mouse as shown in Figure 16.

Arrow head at the intersection point

Figure 16 17. Click on Paste button to see the arrangement. Note that the arrangement is too near to the walls of the room in the y-direction.

Figure 17

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 18. Click on the Positions tab and edit the values as shown in Figure 18. Note that the distance in the y-direction has been reduced from 8.5m to 7.5m.

Distance X: 8.500m

Y: 7.500m

Figure 18 19. Drag the arrow head towards the intersection point as shown in Figure 19. Click on the Start Calculation icon to conduct the calculation.

Start Calculation icon

Arrow head at the intersection point

Figure 19

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 20. Start Calculation window will then appear on the screen. Make sure all the fields are checked and click on OK to start the lux calculation. Calculation will be done automatically and the resulting lighting scene from the simulation will be shown (Figure 21).

Make sure the fields are checked before clicking on OK button

OK button

Figure 20

Figure 21

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 21. You could also click on False Color Display icon for a clearer indication of the lighting output from the luminaire on the roadway. The numbers can be edited to show a clearer picture of the lighting level on road surface. False Color Display icon

Figure 22 22. To view the lighting level in numbers, click on the Output tab in Project Manager. Click on the “+” sign beside Room 1, followed by Room Surfaces, Floor and Value Chart (E).

Room Surfaces Floor Value Chart (E) Output tab

Figure 23

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 23. The numbers in the box shown in Figure 24 indicates the lux level on that particular spot of the roadway. The abbreviation on the sheet is as follow: Eav - Average lux level Emax - Maximum lux level Emin - Minimum lux level u0 - Uniformity

Figure 24 24. Finally, the results can be generated as a PDF document or printed out. You can select the results to be generated/printed by checking the box next to the options (Figure 24).

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 25. You can then create a custom project cover page by clicking on the Project tab under Project Manager. Then click on Project 1. Under the Project tab, edit the Name and Description for the Project. Name will be the project’s name and Description will consist of the luminaire being chosen to use for this particular project and its revision (eg. Rev 00 for a new project, Rev 01 for the first revision).

Project tab Name Description

Project 1

Project tab

Figure 25

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design 26. Next, fill in the contact information of the client/customer by clicking on the Details tab. Then fill in the contact person’s name under Partner’s Contact Name and contact person’s company under Company.

Details tab Partner for Contact Company

Figure 26 27. Go back to the Output tab. Double-click on Project Cover to see a sample of the project cover page, as shown in Figure 28.

Figure 27

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Tutorial for Warehouse Lighting Design

Name

Description

Partner for Contact Company

Figure 28

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