How to work with Lighting Interface RELUX - existing BBES lighting fixtures
This task details how to use the RELUX lighting interface in rooms with existing lighting fixtures that were inserted as an arrangement, using lighting fixture symbols from the BBES symbol library.
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Select
(RELFUX) tool. Click
datapoint and right mouse click inside a room where you want to perform a
lighting calculation.
Opens the Lighting Analysis dialog.
Click
BBES->REFLUX.
RELUX pops up the message shown below, since it does not recognize the lighting fixtures.
Could not read LCD file. Please reselect the luminare before calculation. [OK]
Click OK.RELUX run in the background and displays the room including placeholders for lighting fixtures. It does recognize the exact location of insertion points of lighting fixtures.
- Next, "Select All" using All lighting fixtures in the room are selected. (or <Ctrl>+<A>).
- First you need to select a lighting fixture. Click Opens the Luminaire selection dialog. menu option.
- First, click on the Luminaire type tab. The basic luminiaire data is displayed in the window to the right.
- Next, click on the Luminaire selection tab. Select Company, Luminaire name and Item number. Then click Replace>>.
- Next, make sure to save the RELUX file, use .
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Next step, close RELUX. In the Lighting Analysis dialog, click
RELUX->BBES.
Opes the
Lighting Calculation Symbol Matchtable dialog.
The matchtable creates a connection between the lighting
fixture that is imported from RELUX into the
Electrical discipline drawing. This only needs
to be done the first time a new lighting fixture is imported,
Electrical discipline stores the link
information (which can be changed at any later time).
The red "X" placeholder symbol indicates that there is no match for this luminaire available yet.
- Click Symbol. Opens the Symbol Manager dialog.
- Select the Closed 3'1" symbol in the TUBES CLOSED section, and click OK. The RELUX lighting fixture is now linked to a lighting fixture symbol. You will see the symbols in place of red "X" placeholder in the Symbol Matchtable.
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Click
OK in Symbol Matchtable dialog.
Electrical discipline asks for
confirmation to overwrite existing symbols.
Erase existing symbols? [Yes] [No]
Click Yes. The lighting fixtures are then replaced in the drawing.