Master daylighting design

Daylight shapes the experience of a space like no other material and is a fundamental aspect for realising healthy and sustainable buildings. Good daylighting design can improve the health, mood, cognitive abilities and productivity of the occupants at home, school or work while reducing the energy consumption of the building.

VELUX Daylight Visualizer makes it easy to make informed decisions about daylighting strategies in small and large projects. The high-fidelity daylight simulations are ideal for evaluating compliance with the European Standard for Daylight in Buildings EN 17037 and are fully compatible with your preferred BIM/CAD software.

Download your free copy today and start your journey to become a leader in daylighting design.

New Feature!

Climate Based Daylight Modelling (CBDM)

Gain deeper insights on the daylight performance of your building design with annual climate-based simulations.

• Utilize climate-based daylight modelling (CBDM) to perform hourly annual simulations based on recorded climatic data.
• Gain deeper insights on the daylight performance of your building design based on local climatic data accounting for the occurrence of direct sunlight and orientation.

Design brighter

Explore and optimize daylight conditions in any space with photorealistic visualizations and false-colour mapping for standard and complex fenestration systems.

• Evaluate luminance, illuminance, daylight factor (DF), daylight autonomy (DA), useful daylight illuminance (UDI) and total annual illumination (TAI) levels.
• Explore daylight conditions with plan views, section views and perspective renderings.
• Simulate sunlight redirection with light pipes, blinds and light shelves.
• Simulate complex fenestration systems (CFS) and shading products with BSDF materials.

Efficient and Accurate reporting

Generate automated reports to evaluate and document compliance with the European Standard for Daylight in Buildings EN 17037.

• Understand and apply daylight standards and guidelines effectively to create compliant and optimized designs.
• Generate automated reports with user-defined daylight measurement zones (work planes).
• Evaluate daylight availability compliance with the European Standard for Daylight in Buildings EN 17037 and other rating systems.
• Simulation accuracy validated against Radiance for annual climate-based simulations, and CIE 171:2006 test cases to assess the accuracy of lighting computer programmes.

Easy to learn, quick to master

VELUX BIM & Building Simulation Tools

This video shows how to prepare and export a 3D model from Revit for daylight analysis in VELUX Daylight Visualizer.

VELUX BIM & Building Simulation Tools

This tutorial demonstrates all the essential steps to prepare an Archicad model for multi-zone daylight analysis in VELUX Daylight Visualizer.

VELUX BIM & Building Simulation Tools

This two part tutorial will show you how to perform a daylight analysis using SketchUp and Velux Daylight Visualizer.

VELUX BIM & Building Simulation Tools

This tutorial shows how to navigate the built-in modeller in VELUX Daylight Visualizer and how to set up a daylight analysis.

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