Lighting Design Software is one of the important thing in Lighting Application. Indoor and outdoor applications and approaching to these applications differ from each other. There are 2 main difference of applications in lighting which are indoor and outdoor.
Outdoor spits in Road Lighting, Tunnel Lighting, Parks and Gardens Lighting, Sports and Arena Lighting, Facade Lighting, Monument Lighting and Architectural Lighting Design.
Indoor applications cover Industrial Lighting, Office Lighting, Retail and Hospitality Lighting, Museum Lighting and Residential Lighting. However, the lists of applications cover general parts of applications and seem to spited in many peaces, we can add more detail areas both of them.
This is a list of Lighting Design software for use in analyzing photometrics, BIM (Building Information Modeling), and 3D modeling. The software is typically used by importing the structural design via CAD files. Then lighting elements are inserted.
And finally, the lighting objects are associated with a photometry via IES files. The photometry of a light fixture describes the way it distributes its light into space. Once this process is completed, the illuminance and luminance produced by each fixture in the space can be calculated. The output is typically a diagram indicating these by means of colors or numbers.
This typically is the goal of technical photometry software.
- Radiance(Open Source)
Description: Radiance is an open source suite of lighting design software for the analysis and visualization of lighting in design.
Web: www.radiance-online.org/about
Web: www.radiance-online.org/about
- 2AGI32
Description: AGI was the first commercially available point by point lighting design software for the PC to perform interior computations with irregular shaped rooms and sloped ceiling configurations.
Web: www.agi32.com/index.php?id=32
Web: www.agi32.com/index.php?id=32
- CalcuLuX
Description: Calculux has been developed at the Philips Lighting Design and Application Centre [LiDAC] and is a lighting design software for personal computers. It consists of three lighting design software: Indoor, Area and Road, and a luminaire database management program.
Web: www.lighting.philips.co.in/connect/tools_literature/
Web: www.lighting.philips.co.in/connect/tools_literature/
- DIALux
Description: The free and complete software developed by us for professional light planning is open to luminaires of all manufacturers. A lighting design software by planners for planners. Used by many hundredthousands of light planners and designers worldwide. And their number is growing from day to day.
Web: www.dial.de/DIAL/en/dialux/download.html
Web: www.dial.de/DIAL/en/dialux/download.html
- LD Assistant
Description: Chicago Stage Equipment Co. Inc., DBA Design & Drafting, was incorporated in 1985. The company’s main focus is creating advanced yet easy-to-use lighting design software and event planning solutions. Their products are among the most powerful tools in the hospitality and entertainment industries.
Web: www.ldassistant.com/index.html
Web: www.ldassistant.com/index.html
- LightCalc
Description: LightCalc goes to work determining the appropriate footcandle level, fixture spacing, and it will suggest a ceiling layout for your fixtures. Designers will enjoy the point and click method and the visual display of what the light is doing.
Web: www.lightcalc.com/
Web: www.lightcalc.com/
- Visual 3D
Description: The Visual Design Tools are a set of web based tools that allow users to analyze many common lighting scenarios and view photometric files. The Design Tools can be used to quickly calculate scenarios with simple geometries where interreflected light will not significantly effect the resulting illuminance. This is true for many outdoor lighting scenarios eg Parking Lots and Exterior Facade Floodlighting. Complex lighting designs and geometries should be studied in the PC based Visual software.
Web: www.visual-3d.com/
Web: www.visual-3d.com/
- Microlux
Description: Microlux has the tools you need to create your lighting in 2D and 3D, organize, test and communicate your ideas with plans and schedules. Microlux Professional is for serious LD while Microlux Light is for LD with limited or even no budget at all.
Web: www.luxart.com/index.htm
Web: www.luxart.com/index.htm
- OptisWorks
Description: OPTIS is in optical and lighting design software simulation, and also offers the most outstanding and innovative virtual reality, ergonomics and perceived quality software, putting the best of its know-how and technological expertise at your service.
Web: www.optis-world.com/index.html
Web: www.optis-world.com/index.html
- OptiWin 3D pro
Description: Optis Works type lighting design software for optical design solutions.
Web: https://glamox.com/
- Rayfront
Description: Rayfront is a platform independent toolkit that provides a graphical user interface to the lighting design software Radiance. It can be operated as an extension to Autocad or Intellicad, together with the 3Dsolar building modeller, or as a standalone program.
Web: www.schorsch.com/
Web: www.schorsch.com/
- Relux
Description: Relux Informatik AG, Switzerland, is an established company engaged in the development, production and distribution of lighting planning and product presentation software. The company operates on a global basis and works together closely with its representatives. Relux has now become a standard in state-of-the-art lighting planning.
Web: www.relux.biz/
Web: www.relux.biz/
- SPEOS
Description: SPEOS is the core technology behind OPTIS’ family of lighting design software and is a stand-alone software package for users without a CAD platform. With twenty years of practical application, SPEOS is the most full featured and realistic tool to create, analyze, and virtually validate innovative lighting systems.
Web: www.optis-world.com/index.html
Web: www.optis-world.com/index.html
- Vectorworks Spotlight
Description: Developed by Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., Vectorworks software is a line of industry-specific CAD and BIM solutions that allow designers to advance their ideas from concept through completion. Our users include architects and interior architects, landscape architects and designers, urban planners, lighting and scenic designers, and product and furniture designers, as well as students starting out in their careers.
Web: www.vectorworks.net/
Web: www.vectorworks.net/
- Lighting Reality
Description: Lighting Reality PRO is a fast and easy-to-use PC based lighting design software application, which enables lighting designers to quickly produce standards-compliant street and outdoor area lighting plans in real-time.
Web: www.lightingreality.com/
Web: www.lightingreality.com/
- TracePro
Description: TracePro is award-winning opto-mechanical software used for design, analysis, and optimization of optical and illumination systems. With its intuitive CAD interface and powerful features like interactive optimizers, TracePro offers users a sophisticated and powerful optical design environment combined with a short learning curve to accelerate product time-to-market.
Web: www.lambdares.com/features
Web: www.lambdares.com/features
- LightStar 4D
Description: LITESTAR 4D is the lighting design software that allows the design of interior and exterior areas (generic areas, sports areas, roads, tunnels) and the management of photometric and commercial documentation that makes the work of lighting professionals simple and efficient.
Web: www.oxytech.it/
Web: www.oxytech.it/
- Light-in-Night Road
Description: The program Light-in-Night Road is a working tool for professionals in the design of outdoor lighting. The area of its distribution covers not only the territory of the Russian Federation, but also the countries of the CIS and Baltic countries. The main users of the calculation of lighting – designers multifunctional design institutes and organizations (including specialized road), operational service structure “Gorsvet”, developers and construction companies, energy companies and engineers.
Web: www.l-i-n.ru/
Web: www.l-i-n.ru/
- Ulysse
Description: Lighting design software by Schreder.
Web: www.schreder.com
Web: www.schreder.com
- Wysiwyg
Description: A lighting design software with the following three versions: Perform, Design, and Report.
Web: cast-soft.com/wysiwyg/overview
Web: cast-soft.com/wysiwyg/overview