KeyLIGHTS provides user-friendly tools to enable all the necessary steps of lighting design to be quickly performed in the CAD environment.

KeyLIGHTS has a huge symbol library for different types of lighting column, and this, together with facilities for drawing ducting and cabling, enables users to easily create working drawings of proposed lighting schemes. Columns can automatically be positioned on the plan and routines are available to quantify both the columns and ducting.

KeyLIGHTS interfaces directly with the industry standard Lighting Reality, which can be used to automatically generate lighting spot levels or contours. Designs created in KeyLIGHTS can also be exported to Lighting Reality and the refined layout imported back into KeyLIGHTS. Column positions and orientation are automatically altered to the refined design.
 

     
  KeyLIGHTS Highlights  
  Professional CAD based design: Comprehensive range of tool to assist with accurate positioning of columns – for example at fixed distance from last; linear or staggered layouts; set-out along line.   Data Driven Model: Columns and other equipment include detailed attribute data which can easily be extracted to allow ‘as-built’ installations to be exported to other maintenance databases.  
  Automatic Generation of lighting spot levels: Calculated lighting levels can be plotted in seconds using ‘background’ link to Lighting Reality.   Symbols Keys and Bill of Quantities: Automatic creation of the drawing key and quantities of ducting and cabling can easily be calculated (including allowance for cabling up to control box in each column, bollard or other electrical equipment).  
  Driver's Eye View: Automatic generation of 3D views of proposed lighting scheme enable the designer with Safety Audit.   Highway Power Cabling calculations: Optional HPC module calculates required cable sizes, voltage drops, loads and current.  
         
  “The KeyLIGHTS package is a very efficient and
resourceful tool to assist us in producing
professional presentations for our clients.”
 
  John Rowell – Senior Lighting Design Engineer, EDF Energy Infrastructure Services  
     
         
         
  KeyLIGHTS in Detail      
   Lighting Columns and Other Electrical Equipment    Layout and Design Tools  
 
KeyLIGHTS has a symbol library with over 500 variants for different types of lighting column and lamp. Identification of symbols is simple due to the structured nature of the symbol range.

Columns can be automatically inserted at chosen spacings along a road, or by using tools for easy measurement between columns.
 
KeyLIGHTS provides a range of tools to ensure accurate layout, whether this be linear or staggered arrangements, at variable or fixed distances, or setout along a footway to update lighting between existing columns for example.

Symbols can be swapped automatically, for example from proposed to existing after scheme completion and customisable automatic keys can be created for symbols used in drawings.
 
         
  Data Driven Design    Electrical Networks  
 
Column and lamp data is stored with each symbol in the design drawing and can easily be exported for use with other programs along with location information. A logical column numbering and labelling system is also employed for ease of recognition.

Columns can be selected for any purpose based on any query of column attributes.
 
Ducting and cabling can be shown using a range of user customisable ‘linetypes’. These items can then be quantified and labelled easily. Also includes a comprehensive range of additional symbols for example inspection chambers, bollards, signs, feeder pillars and other street furniture.
 
         
  Light Level Plots   Contours   
 
Used in conjunction with Lighting Reality, column position data can be extracted and lighting levels calculated. These results can then be imported and correctly shown graphically to ascertain the correct position of the columns.

Lighting grids can be any size and spacing, with all masking options honoured with colour coding of results available to user-preferences. Values above and/or below threshold levels can be suppressed. Isolux footprints can also be effortlessly generated from any lamp using the Lighting Reality database.
 
Contours can quickly be generated either using Lighting Reality or directly from plotted light levels within AutoCAD Civil 3D
 
         
  3D Mountain Plot   3D Driver’s Eye Views Automatically generated  
 
Light levels are plotted in 3D – the coordinate Z value taken from the light level – to provide a visual assistance for the designer. AutoCAD Civil 3D can then be used to transform this into the traditional mountain plot.
 
The full power of AutoCAD’s 3D capabilities are harnessed into a simple to use tool. KeyLIGHTS generates driver’s 3D views automatically to assist with safety audit, Other 3D features can be added to enhance the design drawings, including buildings, walls, trees, signs etc.
 
         
  Highway Power Cable (HPC)   Design and Test Certificates  
 
An optional HPC module calculates cable sizes required to meet the 17th Edition IEE Wiring Regulations (BS 7671).
 
HPC outputs include a full calculation results report, tabulated cable and test schedules, and also schematic diagrams.
 
         

  KeyLIGHTS Demonstration (please click to view)  
     
     
 
 
     
     
  KeyLIGHTS is backed by Key Traffic Systems’ full range of support services, including training, support, user group meetings together with Autodesk product and hardware sales.  
     

 
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