FREE lighting CAD program. Attention all nerds!

**Gastanker** · 04-10-2012, 11:37 PM

DIALux is a free industry standard lighting program. Ton and tons of options regarding light calculations, reports, objects, ... Most all large lighting manufactures have importable cast patterns for all of their lamps so you can generally find something similar to your own.

Link is here - http://www.dial.de/DIAL/en/dialux-in...-download.html

Examples:

Will calculate approximate luminance and all that -

Can generate a thousand page report including everything from parts lists to individual luminance cast patterns, wall reflectivity, glare, total power consumption, how "green" you are,... with just a simple click.

Great for comparisons and just to waste time. You can even make movie walkthroughs with it.

**phillipchristian** · 04-11-2012, 02:02 AM

Very cool program. Thanks for sharing man. I'm sub'd to see what else you come up with.

**Rcb** · 04-13-2012, 02:03 PM

this is absolutely amazing ... i just need to learn how to use it better ..im not nerd enough

**Gastanker** · 04-13-2012, 02:08 PM

Glad you're finding it useful. I'm figuring out new things all the time so by no means do I properly know how to use the software, but if you have any questions feel free to ask and I'll try my best.

**bostoner** · 04-13-2012, 02:21 PM

Nice. I'd rep you again if I could. I do a lot of 3d stuff in programs like Maya and Zbrush so I should be pretty efficient at this. I'm going to definitely check it out.