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    FlucsPro Ver 6 - 0 Web Training Notes Rev1

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    This document provides an overview of how to use IES's FlucsPro software to perform lighting design calculations and analyses. It outlines how to open an existing project, select rooms and luminaires, set design parameters and constraints, run lighting calculations and analyses, and view lighting levels and thresholds. The trainer will demonstrate functions like setting lighting defaults, performing lighting designs and analyses, viewing lighting results, and generating threshold tables to meet guidelines. The goal is to familiarize trainees with FlucsPro's core capabilities.

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    This document provides an overview of how to use IES's FlucsPro software to perform lighting design calculations and analyses. It outlines how to open an existing project, select rooms and luminaires, set design parameters and constraints, run lighting calculations and analyses, and view lighting levels and thresholds. The trainer will demonstrate functions like setting lighting defaults, performing lighting designs and analyses, viewing lighting results, and generating threshold tables to meet guidelines. The goal is to familiarize trainees with FlucsPro's core capabilities.

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    This document provides an overview of how to use IES's FlucsPro software to perform lighting design calculations and analyses. It outlines how to open an existing project, select rooms and luminaires, set design parameters and constraints, run lighting calculations and analyses, and view lighting levels and thresholds. The trainer will demonstrate functions like setting lighting defaults, performing lighting designs and analyses, viewing lighting results, and generating threshold tables to meet guidelines. The goal is to familiarize trainees with FlucsPro's core capabilities.

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    FlucsPro Ver 6 - 0 Web Training Notes Rev1

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    This document provides an overview of how to use IES's FlucsPro software to perform lighting design calculations and analyses. It outlines how to open an existing project, select rooms and luminaires, set design parameters and constraints, run lighting calculations and analyses, and view lighting levels and thresholds. The trainer will demonstrate functions like setting lighting defaults, performing lighting designs and analyses, viewing lighting results, and generating threshold tables to meet guidelines. The goal is to familiarize trainees with FlucsPro's core capabilities.

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    IES <Virtual Environment> Live e-training

    Trainee notes

    FlucsPro (Version 6.0)

    Introduction
    In this session you will be shown how to perform an artificial lighting design calculation or a lighting
    analysis using IES’s FlucsPro software.

    We will see how to perform a lighting design calculation to calculate the required number of
    luminaires to achieve a required lighting level.

    We will also see how to perform an artificial lighting analysis for a room with luminaires placed as a
    result of the FlucsPro lighting design calculation, or for rooms with luminaires placed using LightPro,
    IES’s luminaire database and placement tool (covered in a separate training session). You will see
    lighting levels on the working plane or room surfaces.

    You will also be shown how to perform daylight or artificial/daylight analyses for rooms with windows.

    We will use a project created in previous training sessions.

    The trainer will show you how to perform various functions as shown in the following pages, and
    images are included to assist you in following the trainer as the session proceeds, and to act as a
    memory jogger after the session.

    For more detailed help you can use the Help menu within the specific IES application, and also you
    can refer to the product manuals installed with the IES software.

    1
    Opening a previously created <Virtual Environment> project
    First you will be shown how to open a previously created project.

    2
    Selecting the FlucsPro application
    Next you will see how to switch to the Lighting group of programs and then to the FlucsPro view.

    If you have already placed luminaires in a room using LightPro, you can see them in FlucsPro.

    3
    Setting lighting defaults for a selected room
    You will be shown how to select a room, move down a level of decomposition, and to choose lighting
    design defaults such as required design illuminance, maintenance factors and mounting height.

    Performing a lighting design calculation on a selected room.


    You will be shown how to perform a design calculation for a selected room, to calculate the required
    number of fittings to meet the design lighting level.

    4
    Setting the design parameters
    We will see how to set the various design parameters, including the design illumination level.

    You can also choose the required luminaire to use in the design calculation.

    5
    Selecting a light fitting from the database
    Here we will select a luminaire, lamp and colour from the fittings database.

    Choosing a database
    We will see how to choose a manufacturer from a wide range of manufacturers’ databases and add it
    to the current database.

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    Selecting a luminaire
    Next, you will be shown how to select a luminaire from the updated database.

    Selecting a lamp and lamp colour


    Once you have selected a luminaire, you can select a valid lamp for that luminaire and then select a
    valid lamp colour.

    The selections are then confirmed.

    8
    Setting design constraints
    We will see how to choose various design constraints.

    We can then perform the design calculation.

    9
    Reviewing design solutions
    You will see how to view calculated arrays of luminaires which pass and fail the design requirements,
    and you can select the required solution to use in the room (if there are no passes you will need to
    perform another design calculation with an alternative fitting).

    You can review and save the results in HTML format.

    10
    The room in the model will be populated with the selected array of luminaires.

    11
    Performing lighting analyses
    You will next be shown how to perform an artificial lighting analysis to determine lighting levels on the
    working plane or an any room surface.

    You will also be shown how to perform daylight or electric/daylight analyses for rooms with windows.

    Performing an artificial lighting analysis on a selected room.


    You will be shown how to select a room containing luminaires and move down a level of
    decomposition.

    Setting surface reflectances


    You will be shown how to set surface reflectances for selected surfaces in Surface Mode.
    .

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    You will be shown how to switch back to Illumination mode, so that you can see lighting levels on
    surfaces when the analysis has been done.

    You will see how to temporarily turn off the display of lighting levels prior to performing an analysis, to
    speed up the analysis procedure.

    Performing the analysis

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    You will be shown how to choose various analysis options.

    We will choose to perform an artificial lighting only analysis.

    We will then run the analysis.

    15
    Viewing artificial lighting levels
    Once the analysis is complete, you will see how to view artificial lighting levels on the working plane
    or any room surface.

    You can review and save the results in HTML format.

    16
    You will be shown how to view lighting levels on the working plane within the model view.

    You can choose not to display luminaires in the model view.

    17
    You can also see results at the bottom level of decomposition.

    We will return to the middle level of decomposition.

    18
    You will be shown how to view lighting levels on selected room surfaces.

    19
    Performing daylight analyses
    You will see how to perform a daylight analysis.

    Viewing daylight levels


    Once the analysis is complete, you can then choose to view daylight levels (in lux or foot-candles) on
    the working plane or any room surface.

    You can hide the display of the ceiling grid when viewing light levels in a plan view.

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    Viewing daylight factors
    You can choose to view daylight factors on the working plane or any room surface.

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    Viewing combined artificial and daylight lighting levels
    You can choose to view combined artificial and daylight lighting levels on the working plane or any
    room surface.

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    Performing a threshold analysis
    You will see how to perform a threshold analysis for daylight factors or lighting levels.

    24
    Threshold tables
    You will be shown how to generate threshold tables for the purposes of meeting UK or US guidelines.

    Threshold tables - UK guidelines

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    Threshold tables - US guidelines
    You will need to perform a new lighting analysis. You will first be shown how to set the required
    analysis options.

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    Once the analysis is complete, you can then view the threshold table relevant to US guidelines.

    28
    Performing lighting analyses for more than one room
    You will be shown how to perform lighting analyses for more than one selected room at the top level
    of decomposition.

    You will see how to temporarily turn off the display of lighting levels prior to performing an analysis, to
    speed up the analysis procedure.

    29
    Once the analysis is complete you can perform a threshold analysis or view lighting levels on all the
    selected rooms.

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    You have now completed the FlucsPro training session. Remember to save your project.

    Running LightPro or RadianceIES


    If required, you could now use IES’s LightPro luminaire placement software to modify the type or
    position of fittings within rooms. Alternatively you could use IES’s RadianceIES 3D lighting simulation
    tool to perform sophisticated 3D electric/daylight simulations. These are covered in separate training
    sessions.

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