These User's Guides are aimed to familiarize users with various aspects of Visual. The Basic Edition User's Guide explains the Lumen Method Tool interface and the Basic Edition modeling environment. In the Professional Edition User's Guide, full instructions are provided for using every aspect of the interface, from starting a new design, to importing CAD files, to modeling and calculating.

These tutorials familiarize beginning users with various aspects of Visual. The Basic Edition tutorial walks the user through a complete basic lighting design. The Professional Edition Interior tutorial covers the construction of an odd-shaped room, selection of different luminaire types, construction of obstructions and how to perform a complete lighting calculation. The Professional Edition Exterior tutorial covers importing a CAD file, creating multi-headed luminaire types, the use of templates for an area lighting design and basic luminaire aiming for floodlighting. Download the tutorials using the links below:

As translations of Visual documentation become available, we will post them for download.