Room Utilization Type 

At Metaroom®, we understand how important it is to define room profile usage types in 3D room models to meet European standards for light planning. With Metaroom platform, light planners can seamlessly assign room usage profile types based on DIN EN 12464-1 before exporting 3D room models to RELUX Desktop. 

Usage Profiles Overview 

Usage profiles serve as nominal or target values derived from European standards for lighting planning. Metaroom platform currently offers a subset of types from the DIN EN 12464-1 standard. Here is a list of room utilization types available in Metaroom platform: 

1. Unknown, (empty) 

2. Not according to the norm, 0.0 

3. Traffic zones, 9.1 

4. Canteens and break rooms, 10.1 

5. Sports, 10.3 

6. Cloakrooms, washrooms and WC, 10.4 

7. Medical rooms, 10.7 

8. Private housing, 10.8 

9. Technical operating, control rooms, 11.1 

10. Storage rooms, 12.1 

11. Warehouses, 13.4 

12. Shelf warehouses, 13.5 

13. Stables, 14.2 

14. Workshops and sales rooms. 15.1 

15. Precision work, kitchens, and laboratories, 20.7 

16. Hairdressers, 22.1 

17. Jewelers and inspection, 23.1 

18. Office and conference, 34.2 

19. Archives, 34.7 

20. Museums, libraries and kindergartens, 39.1 

21. Parking garage, 42.5 

22. Classrooms and lecture halls, 44.1 

If your required room utilization type is not included in our list yet, please us know, and we will gladly add it for your convenience.

Assigning Room Usage Profile Types 

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to assign room utilization type in Metaroom platform: 

1. After completing room scans with Metaroom Scan App, navigate to Metaroom platform via https://studio.amrax.ai/  
2. Open the 3D model of scanned space from the room list in Metaroom platform.  
3. Group all needed room objects. To select walls and furniture items that you want to group into specific categories, follow the next steps:  
   • Activate the selection mode by clicking on the icon at the top of the screen.  
   • Click on room elements to select them. Selected objects will be displayed in blue. The list of selected walls and objects will appear on the right sidebar.  
   • You can also select room objects by holding SHIFT on the keyboard + the left button on your mouse and dragging a selection rectangle over them. Selected objects will be displayed in blue. The list of selected walls and objects will appear on the right sidebar.  
4. Once you are done selecting room elements, you can name your room (e.g., “bathroom”) in the field “Group Name” and click the button “Create New Group”.   
   • Pro Tip: If you scanned rooms with Metaroom Scan App version 3.0.0 or later, you can skip the manual grouping. Our cutting-edge technologies perform automatic room segmentation in multiroom scans, visible in the Model Tree in the left sidebar. Remember that automatic room segmentation only detects rooms fully enclosed by walls.  
5. Navigate to the Model Tree on the left sidebar of the screen.  
6. Click on the room that needs to have a profile usage type to open settings configurations. 
7. Click “Utilization Type” and select usage type from the drop-down list. 
8. To export the room with all the added information, click on the check box next to the room name in Model Tree. Then, navigate to the right sidebar to click the “Relux Export” button.  
9. Your selected room will be ready to download from the main menu “Export” tab.

After importing a 3D Room Model to RELUX Desktop 

Upon importing the room to RELUX Desktop, the room settings will be automatically adjusted according to the selected room usage profile standards. This ensures that RELUX can calculate the necessary number of luminaires to meet the defined lighting standards.