With DIALux evo, over 360,000 lighting design projects are conceived each month – including the cathedral in Milan. Both the interior and exterior lighting of the cathedral were implemented with DIALux evo. In an interview with ERCO made available to us, Pietro Palladino, the lighting designer responsible, describes which aspects of his concept have a particular impact.

In addition to planning light with DIALux, DIAL also deals with the subject of building automation. Because light is an essential component of a user-oriented building. Thats why the 2nd Smart Building Forum will take place on 1 October at DIAL in Lüdenscheid: Experts from various fields will report on current topics in the industry. One of the speakers is Ilya Ivkin, Country Sales Developer for Lighting and Smart Home at IKEA Germany. We asked him in advance what trends he sees in the smart home sector and how he imagines an ideal living environment.

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Question of the month May: Daylight is an important factor when it comes to light planning. Daylight also plays a role in energy-efficient planning. In this context, the following question reached us.

With DIALux 4 and DIALux evo we have two lighting design tools on the market which can be used free of charge by designers all over the world. In the past months we have invested a lot of effort and resources specifically in the development of DIALux evo to make the software even faster and more intuitive.

Question of the month March: With DIALux evo 8.1, light planners have the option of importing DWG plans or image files quickly and easily in order to use them as a basis for planning. In some cases these are not available in all user views if the setting is not correct. Thats why our support team has been asked the following question:

Whether for furniture, decoration or plants, many lighting designers use 3ds objects in DIALux projects in order to present the plans more vividly. Depending on their number or size, these objects have a great influence on the calculation time of a project. To save calculation time and to improve the visualization of the objects, our developers have implemented a new calculation method for the DIALux evo 9 version (available from mid-year).

Nelca Roco is an architect and works as a lighting designer in the United Arab Emirates. On her YouTube channel she regularly gives tips on lighting design and architecture. She also shows her viewers how to implement special applications in DIALux evo.

With DIALux 4 and DIALux evo there are two DIAL lighting design software on the market. For various reasons, there are lighting designers who work in parallel with both programs or who switch to DIALux evo 8.1 during an ongoing project.

In lighting design it is the presentation of the project which is decisive when demonstrating results to a client. The clearer the documentation and the simpler it is to follow, the easier it is for the client to understand the decisions the lighting designer has made.