IES syntax coloring, keyword content assist in EulumdatTools 0.14.6.v20160115

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.14.6.v20160115 was published on January 15 at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

Improvements 0.14.6

• Improved IES syntax coloring, now also indicating periods as field separators

• Added a QuickFix for missing item code in standard version and duplicate item code in sandbox version for EULUMDAT files. You can fill in product code from filename or product name.

Improvements 0.14.5

• Code quality improvements

Improvements 0.14.4

• IES file keywords now have content assist, activated on CTRL+SPACE on Windows/Linux and CMD+SPACE on Mac
• IES files now have syntax coloring, with illegal characters immediately showing up in RED!
• Fixed issue with hard coded expiry date

Improvements 0.14.3

• All versions of EulumdatTools are now based on Eclipse 4.5.1 Mars. To upgrade reinstall from the download site listed below. The Mac version now looks like a regular Mac application.
• Make it possible to retain Testlab and Testdate/Issuedate on conversion of IES to EULUMDAT and vice versa. Based on a suggestion/request by Mikulas Parma.
• Allow setting of Test Lab name when there is a full license, to be used in conversions.
• Removed some annoying behavior where latest blog post opened in external browser

Improvements 0.14.2

• Fixed nasty conversion bug where IES to EULUMDAT conversion for IES files with absolute photometry had wrong DFF factors calculated. These can be caught and fixed by the Eulumdat validator, but now they are calculated correctly in the first place. If you have converted IES files to EULUMDAT with absolute photometry in the past and not validated the output, please reconvert your files!
• NOTE: the same bug affected the online IES to EULUMDAT converter at http://ies2eulumdat.appspot.com, so if you have used that, reconvert also!

Improvements 0.14.1

• A regression causing the IES validator to stop working was fixed (IES Validator Feature)

Improvements 0.14.0

• Checking your license will now use the https: protocol instead of http: increasing your privacy
• Open Editors will now return to opened tab between sessions
• A problem where the cursor moved to start of line in the source editors when installed in Eclipse e4 was fixed
• You can read this blog right in EulumdatTools so you will always be up to date on latest developments
• EulumdatTools now contains a structured compare editor to make comparing 2 EULUMDAT files easier (see image) (Sandbox Feature)
• A check for overlapping C-planes, where there are C-planes for both 0° and 360° was added (Sandbox Feature)

Availability

Registered users should update using Help / Check for Updates... and install the needed features following the steps below, new users should install EulumdatTools first. New users can download an apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation of EulumdatTools

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit

Installation of Sandbox Feature

Select menu Help / Install New Software... and choose the Eulumdat Tools Sandbox / Sandbox Feature, press Next and follow through with the installation. Also see here

Improved IES-EULUMDAT conversion in EulumdatTools 0.13.4.v20150423

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.13.4.v20150423 was published on April 23 at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

IES to EULUMDAT and EULUMDAT to IES conversion was improved:

• There is an option added to swap the length and width of the IES vs the EULUMDAT file. This is selected be default and makes the converted files more in line with the respective standards.
• There is an option added to rotate the Light Distribution Curve by 90° to allow for differences in US and European roadway lighting standards. When converting from IES to LDT there is a 90° clockwise rotation, when going from LDT to IES there is a 90° counter-clockwise rotation. Note that after rotation the resulting file has no define symmetry. Missing symmetry can be detected and corrected with the experimental Sandbox feature.
• Before checking or converting a number of pre-flight checks were added to reduce the number of Error messages presented to the user. Such errors are now shown as file errors in the Problems view.
• Lastly a nasty bug was fixed that disabled the whole Eulumdat validator, when the Sandbox was not present or no Sandbox validators were selected. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I would like to thank Mikulas Parma of ROBE Lighting s.r.o. for bringing these issues to my attention.

Availability

Registered users should install this feature following the steps below, new users should install EulumdatTools first. New users can download an apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation of EulumdatTools

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit

Installation of Sandbox Feature

Select menu Help / Install New Software... and choose the Eulumdat Tools Sandbox / Sandbox Feature, press Next and follow through with the installation.

Improved IES-EULUMDAT conversion in EulumdatTools 0.13.1.v20141027

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.13.1.v20141027 was published on October 27 at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

IES to EULUMDAT and EULUMDAT to IES conversion was improved:

• There was an error in conversion of files with absolute photometry, IES files signal this by having a -1 for lumens per lamp, EULUMDAT files signal this by have a negative number of lamps. The conversion now works correctly.
• As the lighting industry is moving over to SSD lighting at tremendous speed, with resulting lower energy consumption, I found that the old rounding of wattage and power consumption are making conversion inaccurate. The number of decimal places for power consumption and wattages was increased to 2.

Availability

Registered users should install this feature following the steps below, new users should install EulumdatTools first. New users can download an apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation of EulumdatTools

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit

Installation of Sandbox Feature

Select menu Help / Install New Software... and choose the Eulumdat Tools Sandbox / Sandbox Feature, press Next

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Improved lamp suggestions in new EulumdatTools release 0.10.1.v20140123

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.10.1.v20140123 was published on January 23 at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. Improvements and bug fixes for 0.10.1.v20140123 are as follows:

• Fixed a serious problem with conversion of EULUMDAT files with C90-C270 symmetry to IES format. This format is mostly used for public lighting so should affect limited users.
• Improved suggestion proposals for lamp designations lamp in the content assist.
• General improvements in code structure and test coverage, preparing for release 1.0.0.
• The version number was updated to 0.10.1 already on January 6.

Registered users should upgrade using Check for upgrades. New users can download an apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit

Converting EULUMDAT to IES (How To Video)

Converting EULUMDAT files to IES is easy using EulumdatTools. This video show how easy.

New version of EulumdatTools 0.9.13.v20130125 released

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.13.v20130125 was published on December 21 at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. Improvements and bug fixes are as follows:

• Runtime environment is based on Eclipse 3.8.1. Getting ready for 4.x upgrade!
• Memory usage reduced.
• Improved license code checks to increase sales.
• Broken Ant task into separate plugin (for Eclipse IDE only)
• The version number was updated to 0.9.13.

Registered users should not upgrade using check for upgrades but download a complete new version and register that using their existing license keys. New users can downlaod an apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit

New version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120615 released

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120615 was published on June 15th at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We fixed a bug with the conversion of absolute photometry IES to EULUMDAT where the LOR was calculated incorrectly. This conversion utility is also available free of charge at ies2eulumdat.appspot.com. Apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit

New version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120608 released

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120608 was published on June 8th at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We added the display of a visual indication of the cone size to the Half Center Illuminance Diagram. This improved parser and conversion utility is also available free of charge at ies2eulumdat.appspot.com. Apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120525 was published on May 25th, 2012

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.9.v20120525 was published on May 25th at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We closed two long standing bugs/problems:

• even though the EULUMDAT spec allows for up to 5 lamp types, many manufacturers include more in their files. The message was Array index out of Bounds:5. This limit was removed completely when not using the strict parser.
• Many people testing the online converter convert IES to EULUMDAT and the resulting EULUMDAT back to IES, quite a logical test that we will add to our standard testing! This conversion failed when a label was to long and did not contain any spaces for wrapping to next line with message String index out of range: -1
• Finally the Eulumdat Tools initialization was made more responsive to pressing Cancel.

This improved parser and conversion utility is also available free of charge at ies2eulumdat.appspot.com. Apply for 30 day free evaluation license at the installation site

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit

Converting IES files to EULUMDAT: 4500 files in less than 2 minutes!

To demonstrate the speed of large scale batch conversion I created a small demo video for EulumdatTools.

I recently added ready to install downloads for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX both 32 and 64 bit at the download site. 30 day free trial after registration!

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.7.v20111220 available

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.7.v20111220 was published on December 20th at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We again improved the batch conversion of IES files to EULUMDAT by fixing a nasty bug in the File/Import routine. This improved parser and conversion utility is also available free of charge at ies2eulumdat.appspot.com.

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site

• http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/.

For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform and perform update after installation.:

• Windows 32 bit OR Windows 64 bit
• Linux GTK 32 bit OR Linux GTK 64 bit
• Mac OSX Cocoa 32 bit OR Mac OSX Cocoa 64 bit

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.6.v20111129 available

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.6.v20111029 was published on October 29th at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We again improved the conversion of Type B photometry IES files to EULUMDAT to the existing conversion of Type C files. We also hardened the parser so more files with errors can be opened and displayed, so they can be corrected. We extended the hardcoded expiry date of this release to well in 2012. This improved parser and conversion utility is also available free of charge at ies2eulumdat.appspot.com.

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform:

• Windows XP 32
• Windows WPF (discontinued)
• Linux GTK 32 bit
• Mac OSX 32 Cocoa bit
• Mac OSX 64 Cocoa bit

New version of EulumdatTools 0.9.4.v20110729 available

A new version of EulumdatTools 0.9.4.v20110729 was published today at http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. We added the conversion of Type B photometry IES files to EULUMDAT to the existing conversion of Type C files. We also hardened the parser so more files with errors can be opened and displayed, so they can be corrected. We extended the hardcoded expiry date of this release to well in 2012.

Some background theory

The photometric intensity distribution in EULUMDAT files is similar to that a Type C IES file. The center of beam is straight down (or up) and there are vertical (IES: lateral) planes rotating around this central down axis. In each vertical (IES: lateral) plane there are a number of vertical angles. For more info see AGI32 website.

Trigonometric conversions

To determine the intensity at a pair of the C and γ angles, we need to interpolate at a corresponding pair of B and β angles. The corresponding B and β angles can be found using these formulas:

tan B = cos C * tan γ

sin β = sin C * sin γ

We added some extra logic to handle the determination of the right quadrant.

Interpolation used

Interpolation is done using standard lagrange over 3 planes and then over the 3 resulting points.

More info

See this book for more details.

Installation

For use in Eclipse you can use the standard Eclipse update site http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/. For stand alone RCP versions of EulumdatTools choose your platform:

• Windows XP 32
• Windows Vista & 7 WPF
• Linux GTK 32 bit
• Mac OSX 32 Cocoa bit
• Mac OSX 64 Cocoa bit

New online IES to EULUMDAT Converter now also handles Type B photometry

A new version of the free online IES to EULUMDAT Converter was published today at http://ies2eulumdat.appspot.com/.

We added the conversion of Type B photometry IES files to EULUMDAT to the existing conversion of Type C files.

Some background theory

The photometric intensity distribution in EULUMDAT files is similar to that a Type C IES file. The center of beam is straight down (or up) and there are vertical (IES: lateral) planes rotating around this central down axis. In each vertical (IES: lateral) plane there are a number of vertical angles. For more info see AGI32 website.

Trigonometric conversions

To determine the intensity at a pair of the C and γ angles, we need to interpolate at a corresponding pair of B and β angles. The corresponding B and β angles can be found using these formulas:

tan B = cos C * tan γ

sin β = sin C * sin γ

We added some extra logic to handle the determination of the right quadrant.

Interpolation used

Interpolation is done using standard lagrange over 3 planes and then over the 3 resulting points.

More info

See this book for more details.

Version 0.7.1.v2010115 released

Today we released version 0.7.1 of EulumdatTools, Eclipse based workbench for photometric files, which included numerous improvements in parsing IES files for conversiuon to Eulumdat based on feedback and error reports received from the Google App Engine IES to Eulumdat converter. Version 0.7.1.v20101115 is available as an update to the standalone version EulumdatTools RCP and EulumdatTools plugin for use in the Eclipse IDE.

How to upgrade

To upgrade select menu Help/Check for Updates and follow from there.


Be sure to check the acceptance of the certificate.

How to install

To install for first time use you can use the upgrade site:
http://www.fold1.com/eulumdattools/