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 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

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!

Importing files from a ZIP archive

Many manufacturers supply their EULUMDAT photometric data files as ZIP archives. We are going to show how we can import these files directly into our workspace. Eulumdat Tools allows you to import these files directly into the workspace, without first unzipping the archive. Step one is to create an example project in the work space using File/New.../Eulumdat Tools ProjectThen we create a new folder in the project using FIle/New.../Other.../General/Folder and call it eulumdat.
Then we select File/Import.../General/Archive File and press Next.
We browse to an Eulumdat zip we downloaded earlier and select it. We use ERCO data from here.
We can select and deselect individual files in the list before completing by pressing Finish.
Extraction from the ZIP file proceeds.
When new projects or fils are entered in the workspace, they are validated immediately using the current settings.
We can change the settings using Window/Preferences/Eulumdat Tools/Validation and switch off some tests.
Now we are left with a manageable set of warnings and errors and we can proceed to clean up the data.

More details on editing and using Quick Fixes will be covered in a next installment.