Getting to grips with new software can be challenging, especially not knowing where to start. So, that’s why we’ve created a handy Trial Support Guide offering you useful advice and best practices to help you get started.
Getting started and activating your licence keys.
Find your way about the IESVE Start Page.
Creating and editing geometry in the IESVE.
Creating space names and space groups for streamlined assignment of data or model manipulation.
Set up project location and select suitable weather files.
Creation, editing, and assignment of opaque and glazed constructions to apply to your model.
Assign, inspect and/or modify building templates within the VE.
How to build and use profiles to act as controllers for your model.
Create and edit templates, linked to energy sources and meters, to control the building systems.
Edit aspects of the data assigned using building templates on a space by space basis, if required.
Quality check data assigned to your model and visualise with colours.
Calculate sun position and shading for loads analysis, track solar penetration into spaces.
Run ASHRAE Loads or CIBSE Calculations to check the heating and cooling loads
Introduction to Apache, the simulation engine of the VE.
Learn how to run a dynamic thermal simulation of your model using ApacheSim.
Creating window types and use profiles as controllers, to assess natural ventilation, or mixed-mode ventilation.
Quickly and easily analyse and compare results of one or more simulations carried out using the thermal modelling tools.
Luminaire placement, lighting design calculation, artificial/daylight analysis and combined lighting levels.
Predict daylight performance through simulations.
Look at the different types of simulations available in RadianceIES and the settings required to perform these simulations and start to assess further. Generate Luminance and Illuminance images.
Useful Daylight Illuminance (UDI), Spatial Daylight Autonomy (SDA), Annual Sunlight Exposure (ASE), LEED V4.1 Daylight Credit Option 1 & 2 and BREEAM Hea01 Visual Comfort.
Sensor settings, and how to place sensors for daylight harvesting so that radiance sensors can be used to create dimming profiles in Apache to assess potential savings.
Using the Vertical Sky Component (VSC) to assess right to light for UK planning applications.
Quickly and easily create more detailed HVAC systems, with zoning, airside and waterside. Perform CIBSE or ASHRAE based loads calculations, for sizing and reports, or a dynamic simulation. Take advantage of the library of full auto-sizeable NCM systems.