Course details

DIALux is a free light planning program for the presentation of projects.

By using this program, you will be able to plan the lighting you will use in a room, scene or building. The program will be able to calculate and visualize the daylight, as well as letting you plan your lighting scenes, plan the color and intensity of the lights you will use, position on the project the emergency lighting, with the right legal number of luminaires, and many more.

With DIALux you can prepare photo realistic visualizations of your light planning and send them to your customers via email, or upload them to a server.

Content:  
Part 1 Dialux Basic

Install Luminaire Data
  • DIALux directories
  • Working with Wizards
  • The DIALux User Interface
  • Optimise Personal Settings
  • Create a New Project
Part 2 Create Model
  • Edit Rooms
  • Insert Room Elements
  • Insert Furniture
  • Insert Textures
  • Material dialogue for surfaces
  • Duplicate (Copy Rooms/Scenes/Streets)
Part 3 Create Light Objects
  • Insert and Edit Luminaires and Luminaire Arrangements
  • Illumination strategies
  • Colored light
  • Light Scenes and Control Groups
  • Emergency lighting
  • Daylight calculation in DIALux
Part 4 More on 3D operation
  • Working in the 3D View
  • Working in Various Views
  • Wireframe Mode
  • Editing Inserted Objects
  • Arrangement aids
  • Calculation Surfaces and other Calculation Objects
Part5 Exterior Lighting
  • Exterior Lighting
  • Street Valuation Fields in Exterior Scenes
  • Road lighting
  • Sports complexes
  • Global Output Settings
Part 6 Data Outputs
  • Output
  • DWG and DXF Import and Export
  • gbXML file import
  • STF Interface
  • Energy Performance of Buildings
  • Making videos in DIALux
  • Raytracer
Updated on 26 May, 2022

Job roles this course is suitable for:

Senior Designer , Lighting Designer , LED Lighting Designer

About St.Hua Private School

St. Hua Private School is established in 1997 by a group of experienced graduates from recognized universities such as National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

We specialize in the provision of professional technical education, such as Interior Design, Civil and Electronics Engineering, Information Technology, Programming and Digital Drawing. Our trainers are well-educated and experienced, with all of them holding at least a Masters degree from either local or overseas universities.

Additionally, most of our courses are subsidized by SkillsFuture credit, an initiative offered by the Singapore Government to upgrade Singapore Citizens’ skills by providing each citizen with $500 in funding to partake any eligible course they wish.

It is our responsibility to ensure that every student masters the relevant knowledge with ease and most importantly, have fun while doing so.

Ultimately, we aim to ensure that students are better equipped with the necessary skill sets to meet the requirements of society, to prepare them for the workforce and to enhance and elevate current workers’ skills so that they can better fit their current job and propel them to further heights in Singapore society.

Finally, St.Hua Private School is recognized and accepted by CPE (Council of Private Education) to practice as a private school from 9th January 2017 to 8th January 2021.

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