Metaroom by Amrax® has made a game-changing move for lighting designers, electrical planners, and architects. We have partnered with DIALux, the global leader in lighting design software. This collaboration brings together the power of 3D modeling and advanced lighting design. It significantly enhances efficiency and accuracy in creating detailed light plans.
Instant Scanning and Seamless Integration
With Metaroom’s fast digitization of rooms and buildings, powered by AI, LiDAR, and SLAM technology, users can capture true-to-scale 3D models in just minutes using an iPhone Pro or iPad Pro. Users seamlessly import these scans into DIALux’s design environment. This eliminates the time-consuming task of creating manual geometry, allowing users to design lighting solutions more efficiently.
Lighting designers and electrical planners can now effortlessly transition from physical space to 3D model and lighting plan. By combining Metaroom’s fast mobile scanning with DIALux’s advanced planning tools, the workflow becomes more efficient and streamlined.
Key Benefits for lighting designers and electrical planners
Metaroom and DIALux have crafted their partnership with the user in mind. By integrating these cutting-edge tools, lighting designers and electrical planners can significantly reduce the time and effort required to create detailed light plans.
- Efficiency: Metaroom eliminates the need for manual geometry construction, enabling designers to focus more on creativity and less on modeling tasks.
- Precision: True-to-scale models accurately represent spaces, capturing all details and leading to detailed lighting plans.
- Customization: The Metaroom web application allows users to add project-specific details, ensuring tailored lighting designs for each space.
- Sustainability: DIALux’s simulation tools allow designers to explore energy-efficient and sustainable lighting scenarios, making projects more sustainable.
Seamless Integration and Open Standards
The partnership leverages open BIM and IFC standards, ensuring smooth data exchange between Metaroom’s 3D models and DIALux’s software. This integration provides a holistic ecosystem for lighting designers and electrical planners, reducing costs and allowing collaboration across teams. The entire process—from scanning a room to finalizing a lighting design—takes a fraction of the time typically needed with traditional methods.
Martin Huber, CEO of Amrax, states: “Advances in 3D modeling, software, and AI are combining to democratize design. Lighting designers and electrical planners now have access to powerful tools that significantly enhance efficiency. This allows them to serve more customers in less time. This will lead to a revolution in how buildings are designed and how we all interact with our built environment. Partnerships between cutting-edge solutions like Metaroom and DIALux are key to powering this change. By creating an extensive ecosystem of lighting design solutions, we will significantly improve accessibility, reduce costs, and bring spatial design to the mainstream.”
Dieter Polle, CEO of DIALux, adds: “Our extensive international user base of electrical planners, lighting designers, architects, and many others often doesn’t have a 3D model to work with when starting a project. The first step usually involves manually creating the 3D geometry, ideally using 2D plans, which can be time-consuming. Now, instead of that, you can simply grab your smartphone, scan the room, and start planning directly in DIALux. By integrating Metaroom into DIALux, we have made life easier for light planners. And technologically, we followed our Open BIM strategy.”
How It Works
Metaroom’s intuitive Scan App guides users through scanning, creating a parametric 3D model within minutes. After completing the scan, users upload the data to the cloud. They can access the finished 3D model through Metaroom’s web-based platform on any desktop browser within minutes. Users can adjust and enhance the model and export it in an IFC format optimized for direct import into DIALux.
The integration of DIALux and Metaroom is available to all DIALux Pro subscribers with DIALux evo 13. Users can use the imported model to place luminaires and simulate various lighting conditions. The platform accurately calculates and visualizes lighting, ensuring every detail is optimized before installation.
For a more detailed guide, Metaroom Help Center offers step-by-step instructions on importing and optimizing your 3D model for lighting design.
Join the Revolution
More than 11,000 users have already embraced Metaroom’s scanning technology, reaping the benefits of faster, more efficient design processes. Join them and see how Metaroom and DIALux are transforming the world of lighting design.
