In DIALux evo 8 interior rooms can be defined directly via an interior room contour. DIALux evo generates the walls automatically. It is not necessary for the lighting designer to previously create exterior contours.

The lighting designer does not always have access to DWG plans. With the DIALux update it is now possible to use image files as a basis for the design process.

DIAL is proud to support the Professional Lighting Design Convention, PLDC, as a Partner Institute. The Convention, organized by VIA-Verlag, was created for the global lighting design market.

How is the user interface structured in DIALux evo? Which steps must be observed when importing a CAD plan? How is a building planned? The new DIALux evo tutorials for beginners give answers to these questions. The video series on YouTube will be added to continually in the coming weeks and months.

With voice-activated virtual assistants such as Alexa, Google Home, Siri and co. it is now easy for amateurs to control lighting within their own four walls. Terms such as ‚Smart Home‘ or ‚Smart Building‘ are now firmly embedded in the marketing of such services. But what exactly is the difference between these terms? Carsten Schulz, trainer at DIAL, gives us an overview.

DIALux evo 8.0 is a new version of DIAL's lighting design software. This time the new features focus entirely on the design process. The lighting designer is often faced with the challenge of designing a simple building or individual rooms quickly and efficiently. The software developers at DIAL were aware of this and have developed new functions to simplify working with design tools and speed up the whole design process.

The DIALux Mobile app is the latest addition to the DIALux family. For the very first time it is now possible to carry out your light planning of an interior space directly on site on your smartphone or tablet. Thorsten Kock, Software Development Manager at DIAL, explains what the user can now look forward to.

Tom Van Roey as the owner of T-VR (Technieken Van Roey), offers services like drafting electrical specification dossiers (for engineering firms and architects) and lighting studies and designs (mainly for manufacturers).

As an accredited trainer of the DIALux trainer network, Tom also gives DIALux evo trainings in English and Dutch.

Light influences our mood, creates a feeling of well-being and affects our biorhythm. This makes it all the more important to optimize light within our own four walls so that it is perfectly attuned to our own needs. A client in Dortmund has recognized this and has asked DIAL to design the lighting and the lighting control in his newly built house. First of all, during the planning phase, the perfect light to fulfil the requirements of the users was defined and adapted to the modern architecture of the building. Only after this process was the lighting control planned. Lighting design and control are planned holistically for both the interior and exterior areas of the building.

How can we make the lighting designer's daily work simpler? This is a question which the development team at DIAL asks every day? Feedback from users is especially valuable so that it is precisely those functions which the user needs for his daily work which are then developed.

That passway lighting does not always mean uniformly arranged luminaire poles is shown in a light planning project completed by DIAL. The town of Lüdenscheid awarded a contract to us for the illumination of the area between the Phänomenta exhibition building and the EGC (business development centre) building standing opposite. This was a project for a pedestrian footpath in an inner city area.

Room temperature and lighting can be controlled as required using an app on the smartphone and smart grids ensure that buildings are supplied with energy. What, just a few years ago, seemed merely a pipe dream is emerging as reality. There is a trend towards intelligent buildings. But what makes a building a Smart Building? At the beginning of 2013 DIAL moved into its new premises. The architecture and the overall technical concept were created by DIAL itself. Four years have passed since the company then and the time has come to take stock. Dietmar A. Half, Team Leader Smart Buildings at DIAL, reports on his experience from the design phase to the management of an intelligent building and outlines prospects for future trends in building automation.