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EASE Software © Copyright ADA (Acoustic Design Ahnert), Germany
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October 2009
Version 4.3.6
EASE 4.3 User’s Guide & Tutorial
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Chapter 1: Installation and Registration
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Section 1: Installation and Registration ...................................................................................
General Information...............................................................................................................
Licensing & Trademark Information.......................................................................................
Technical Support .................................................................................................................
Table of Contents...................................................................................................................
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Installation Instructions.......................................................................................................... 8
Registration Instructions ....................................................................................................... 12
User ID Number............................................................................................................. 12
Reference File ........................... .................................................................................. 12
License File .................................................................................................................. 12
Obtaining a License Key .............................................................................................. 12
Licensing By File .................................................................................................................. 15
Exporting / Importing License Keys...................................................... ........................ 16
Terminating (Removing) License Keys ......................................................................... 17
Protect License ..................................................................................................................... 17
Program Updates ................................................................................................................ 17
Speaker and Material Database Updates ............................................................................ 18
Recovering Lost License Keys ............................................................................................. 19
Section 2. Overview ................................................................................................................... 21
General Information .............................................................................................................. 22
Key Commands .................................................................................................................... 22
Help Files ............................................................................................................................. 24
EASE 4.3 Manual ................................................................................................................. 24
Starting EASE ...................................................................................................................... 25
Opening a Project ................................................................................................................. 28
Project Data Files ................................................................................................................. 29
Terminology .......................................................................................................................... 31
Viewing a Project .................................................................................................................. 32
Using The Walker ................................................................................................................. 34
Electro-Acoustic Calculations (Mapping) .............................................................................. 35
Calculation Setup Menus ............................................................................................. 35
Area Mapping ............................................................................................................... 38
Section 3. Constructing A Model ............................................................................................. 41
Naming a Project .................................................................................................................. 42
Open & Closed Rooms.......................................................................................................... 43
Symmetrical Modeling .......................................................................................................... 43
Loading Loudspeaker & Wall Material Databases................................................................. 44
Printing Wall Material Database ........................................................................................... 45
Room Modeling Techniques ................................................................................................. 46
Room Entry .......................................................................................................................... 48
Edit Project Options .............................................................................................................. 50
Entering Vertices .................................................................................................................. 53
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EASE 4.3 User’s Guide & Tutorial
Section 3: Constructing A Model (continued)
Entering Faces .....................................................................................................................
Making Steps ........................................................................................................................
Adding Seating Areas (Using the Coat Feature) ..................................................................
Adding Audience Areas ........................................................................................................
Adding Listener Seats ..........................................................................................................
Closing a Room ....................................................................................................................
Reverb Times ...............................................................................................................
Finding and Fixing Holes
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Adding Loudspeakers ...........................................................................................................
Aiming Loudspeakers ...........................................................................................................
Mapping ................................................................................................................................
Adding / Changing Face Colors ............................................................................................
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Section 4: Advanced Modeling Techniques .................................................................................. 77
Adding Doors and Windows ................................................................................................. 78
Using Edges & Vertex On Face Margin ................................................................................ 79
Finding Unknown Coordinate Locations ............................................................................... 80
Distance Calculations ........................................................................................................... 83
Create Shape Examples (Using Create Shapes) ................................................................. 84
Creating Curved Surfaces ..................................................................................................... 86
Using Extrude ....................................................................................................................... 87
.Creating Rooms with Curved Ceilings and Walls ................................................................. 89
Quitting the Symmetrical Modeling Mode ............................................................................. 95
Cutting a Face into Two Parts ............................................................................................... 95
Adding Interior Shapes.......................................................................................................... 97
Using Extrude Faces .................................................................................................................. 98
Adding Doors and Windows ................................................................................................. 99
Using Coat Feature ....................................................................................................... 99
By Modeling into a Wall ................................................................................................. 99
Using Sequence .................................................................................................................... 100
Using Insert Audience Area .................................................................................................. 101
Adding Loudspeaker Grids ................................................................................................... 102
Adding Steps & Bleachers ..................................................................................................... 105
Using Prototype Rooms ........................................................................................................ 108
Prototype Room Models ....................................................................................................... 110
Using Objects ....................................................................................................................... 122
Cluster Construction .................................................................................................................. 129
Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 130
Using Main Speaker Base...................................................................................................... 130
Using Edit Project .................................................................................................................. 137
Using Cluster Objects ........................................................................................................... 138
Creating CASE Drawings ...................................................................................................... 139
Creating New Loudspeaker Files .......................................................................................... 141
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Chapter 1: Installation and Registration
Chapter 6: Import / Export Capabilities
Introduction ...........................................................................................................................
Import EASE 2.1 ...................................................................................................................
Export EASE 3.0 Project ......................................................................................................
Import CADP2 ......................................................................................................................
Import ASCII .........................................................................................................................
Import ASCII (EASE 2.1) ......................................................................................................
Export ASCII .........................................................................................................................
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Import DXF / SKP Files ........................................................................................................ 145
Export DXF Files .................................................................................................................. 145
Export SKP Files .................................................................................................................. 145
Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) File Transfer .......................................................................
Exporting DXF Files from EASE ..........................................................................................
Importing EASE DXF Files into AutoCAD ............................................................................
Exporting SKP Files from EASE ...........................................................................................
Importing EASE SKP Files into Sketchup ............................................................................
Importing AutoCAD DXF Files into EASE ............................................................................
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Importing Google Sketchup SKP Files into EASE ................................................................ 152
Helpful Hints for non-AutoCAD users ................................................................................... 155
Chapter 7: Using Optimize RT ................................................................................................. 157
Optimize RT ......................................................................................................................... 158
Chapter 8; Vision .......................................................................................................................
Introduction............................................................................................................................
Using Vision .........................................................................................................................
Creating New Lamps (Light Source Editor) ..........................................................................
Creating a New Texture (Texture Editor) ..............................................................................
Assigning Textures to the Model ..........................................................................................
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Section 9; Room Investigations ..............................................................................................
New Mapping Conventions ..................................................................................................
New Level Conventions .......................................................................................................
Area Mapping .......................................................................................................................
Moving Audience Areas ........................................................................................................
Mapping ...............................................................................................................................
Setup Options (Area Mapping) .............................................................................................
Display Methods ..................................................................................................................
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View Calculations Window ................................................................................................... 188
Display Measures ................................................................................................................. 191
Direct SPL .................................................................................................................... 191
STI Speech Transmission Index ................................................................................... 192
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