Changing Text Size For Point By Point Lighting Calculation Values


Bidirectional interface with Visual has optional capability to import point by point calculations from Visual to electrical model. This is excellent tool to quickly show lighting levels in any space.
Point by point calculation is displayed as text and is construction class. Calcualtions can be turned off and on using constructions option in view attributes.
Following example demonstrates how to change default size of point by point calculation values.
1. First step is to locate electrical dataset. From Workspace>Configuration look for variable BBESDATA. This variable points to electrical dataset (ElecdatasetNcsUs)
2. Use windows explorer to navigate to electrical dataset (location that BBESDATA points to).
3. Locate Metadata folder under electrical dataset.
4. Locate File BLI.ini, and open it with Notepad. Complete Bli.INi file is displayed below.

[IMPORT]
Textformat=($P0)($L0)
; ($M0) = manufacturer
; ($T0) = type of luminaire
; ($P0) = product name
; ($D0) = dimension
; ($L0) = lums
[CALCZONES]
POINTCELL=BBES_CALCZONE_POINT_DIAMOND
LAYER=E-LITE-CALCZONES
LAYERCOLOR=3
TEXTSIZE=0.1
TEXTOFFSET=0.2
#TEXTOFFSETANGLE=90.0
TEXTOFFSETANGLE=00.0
TEXTALIGNMENT=2
; alignment: left=1 center=2 right =3

5. To change default text size, modify entry TEXTSIZE.
For example TEXTSIZE=0.4
6. Level E-LITE-CALCZONES can be changed if needed by modifying entry LAYER.
For example LAYER=E-LITE-CALC
7. Save Bli.INI.
8. Run Visual interface and make sure option to Import Calculation Zones is selected in Lighting calculation symbol match table.
9. Point by point calculations now have 4" height as defined in Bli.ini file.