Radout - Export Geometry from Autocad to Radiance

Radout 3.9.7
Export Geometry from Autocad to Radiance

Manual page, Complete reference and user guide.

Download radout for Autocad R14.
Download radout for Autocad 2000.

What is Radout:

Radout is an ADS/ARX application for Autocad 12 up to Autocad 2000, exporting geometry data to the Radiance lighting simulation package.

Radout is conceptually based on the old torad.lsp program, which provided the inspiration and some of the understanding of autocad's workings to the original author Philip Thompson.
The main differences are:

Compiled in C/C++, executes many times faster.
Creates a simple rif file for immediate input to rad(1).
Some bugs avoided, some new introduced.
Much better arc/bulge approximation.
Exports light weight polylines in R14 and up.

Radout will be an integral part of the architectural lighting design software package Rayfront, which offers complete control over all parameters of Radiance simulations.

Basic features of Radout are:

Translates all hiding/shading entities from Autocad (and some more, though support for ACIS solids in R14 and Autocad 2000 will only be available together with Rayfront).
Entities can be selected on screen for selective export.
Entities will be sorted either by color or by layer. The sorting results in seperate files written for every layer or color. Floating layers and colors within blocks are fully supported.
Other files created optionally can contain material definitions, a setup of sky and sun, and a rif file.
Only the entities that are visible (that is their layer is on and thawed) will be exported, even when nested in a selected block. This gives you another method of filtering elements of your drawing especially usefull when you want to update only part of a scene.
The layer name or color number will be part of each respective filename to make it an unique identifier.
You have full control through a interactive dialog box.

Entities exported (by choice):

    Autocad entities:            Radiance objects:

    -  3dfaces                   -  triangular or quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded or flat traces   -  triangular and/or quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded or flat solids   -  triangular and/or quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded or flat circles  -  rings and quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded arcs             -  quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded lines            -  quadrilateral polygons.
    -  extruded 2d-(lw)plines    -  quadrilateral polygons.
    -  wide 2d-(lw)plines        -  multilateral polygons.
    -  closed 2d-(lw)plines      -  multilateral polygons.
    -  3d-meshes                 -  triangular or quadrilateral polygons.
    -  polyfaces                 -  triangular or quadrilateral polygons.
    -  points                    -  spheres or bubbles.

    -  ACIS solid modelling entities in Autocad 2000 (only in the
       version distributed with Rayfront).

the complete distribution includes the following files:

   Program files:
      radout[.arx]    Main program file.
      radout.dcl      Dialog box definition file.

   Documentation: 
      manual.html     User manual.
      index.html      This file.

"Support"

I expect this program and the manual to be self explanatory for users who have some experience with either Autocad, Radiance, or ideally both of them. If you still have questions that can't be answered by the manuals and FAQs to Autocad, Radiance or Radout, nor by the local guru, you might try to mail me at the addresses below.

Be sure to notify me if you think you have found a bug in this program.

Georg Mischler

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   Copyright © 1998-2000 Georg Mischler, Munich, Germany.
 
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Radout 3.9.7 Export Geometry from Autocad to Radiance

What is Radout:

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Radout 3.9.7
Export Geometry from Autocad to Radiance