I've just gone to a high end Dell Precision M6500 Laptop with 16Gb of Ram and a 1Gb NVIDIA graphcs card, running Windows XP 64 due to the Corporate Geeks not supporting Windows 7 64. I'm running AutoCAD 2011, AutoCAD MEP 2011, Revit MEP 2011 and Navisworks Manage 2011, plus AGI32 for Lighting...
Just a warning for people not on the AutoCAD Subscription, as of March 15 2010 their upgrade/renewal policy is changing. If you are not on the Subscription Service, it's going to cost you 1/2 the value of a new license to upgrade.
Tom...
The IES only publishes recommendations, but does have very in depth sections dealing with light levels and human perception, as well as various recommended light levels based upon the task at hand, in a particular area. To calculate the light levels for a project you are going to need a...
I've closed the Ribbon, I find no need for it. My biggest gripe is the time delay every time you execute a command. Other than that I'm pretty happy so far.
Usually, I just take the PDF's from the Manufacturer and draw my own. There are son pretty nicely done details at the US Army CAD Detail Site.
https://cadlib.wes.army.mil/DetailsLibrary/
As far as I'm concerned 2007 was far more stable. 2008 may have many new Trick features for Architects and such, in the Electrical end of things, I don't use any of them, and some new Standards cause me much grief.
I have used numerous Lighting Inverters for backup of Metal Halide Lighting in Warehouses with excellent success. You don't actually need a full blown UPS, just an Inverter that has a fast enough transfer to maintain the Lamp Arc. Liebert, Myers Power Products, Chloride, mcPhilben and...
From an Electrical Contractor's perspective, I don't know where your friend is getting his information. A 3-Lamp T8 Fluorescent Troffer runs about $68.00 with Lamps, a 4-Lamp T8 Fluorescent Troffer About $72.00. The only cost difference is the extra lamp and sockets. In most areas of the...
I had the same problem with Luxicon, it just doesn't work on XP. I actually use AGI32 for detailed lighting calculations, but it's not cheap, I find the free ones from Lithonia and Cooper to be fine for a quick calculation to obtain quantities, but not for anything else. Over the years I have...
Here’s what I’d love to achieve (although I’d settle for a program or macro that works in or exports to Excel to generate a Gaussian (Bell) Curve if this doesn’t exist):
1. A typical construction curve for labor hours over time (preferably Electrical Contracting – NECA has...
Lithonia Lighting www.lithonia.com publishes Visual lighting design software, there Basic edition is free and is very fast to use for budgets, there Professional edition is around $100.00, although if you deal with a Lithonia rep they will generally get it for ou for free. Cooper Lighting also...
Some interesting questions with numerous possible answers based upon the given criteria.
1. A .5fc average is pretty common, however the total quantity of pole mounted fixtures to achieve this varies greatly based upon optics, lamp orentation, pole location, etc. A very rough rule of thumb to...
