IES Lights - viewer?

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Rork
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IES Lights - viewer?

Post by Rork » 26 May 2010, 17:06

Hi,

I have finally some time to fiddle with this...

In SI 2011 we can use IES lights, and I was wondering what people use to preview these lights before linking them in SI.

I found IES Viewer v2.99n at CGArena, but that one doesn't want to preview ERCO IES files, only Lithonia files.
ERCO also has the fixtures in DXF, so ERCO would be nice to use.
All other app I found weren't really up to the task.

Anyone found a nice IES viewer that shows all manufacturer's IES files?

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Re: IES Lights - viewer?

Post by Hirazi Blue » 26 May 2010, 18:50

You could try the slightly more spartanic ies_generator3 (RMB Save as, links directly to an exe-file), which can also be used as a viewer for IES lights...
I just tried this with a couple of IES files from the erco.com website and it seemed to work alright... ;)
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