This is a list of lighting design software for use in analyzing

photometrics Photometry is the science of the measurement of light, in terms of its perceived brightness to the human eye. It is distinct from radiometry, which is the science of measurement of radiant energy (including light) in terms of absolute power. In ...

, BIM (Building Information Modeling), and

3D modeling In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based representation of any surface of an object (inanimate or living) in three dimensions via specialized software by manipulating edges, vertices, ...

. 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 In photometry, illuminance is the total luminous flux incident on a surface, per unit area. It is a measure of how much the incident light illuminates the surface, wavelength-weighted by the luminosity function to correlate with human brightn ...

and

luminance Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through, is emitted from, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls withi ...

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. In marketing and higher-level design, 3D photometric analysis is useful to give a graphical (no numerics) output of a proposed design. ;Open source * Radiance ;Proprietary *

AGi32 AGi32 is a simulation tool used for designing lighting projects and calculating the amount of light that will be delivered based on user-set parameters. The resulting calculations are commonly referred to as lighting layouts or point-by-points. ...

AutoLUX
(AutoCAD extension) * Calculux * DIALux{{Cite web, url=https://www.dialux.com/en-GB, title=DIALux website, website=www.dialux.com, access-date=2021-09-23
DL-Light
(Daylighting, Sketchup extension) *

FocusTrack FocusTrack is a database program created specifically for stage lighting applications. The program is designed to allow lighting designers, lighting programmers and lighting electricians to document the way that a show is lit, in order to be a ...

LightStanza

LITESTAR 4D
* RELUX
Speos
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TracePro TracePro is a commercial optical engineering software program for designing and analyzing optical and illumination systems. The program's graphical user interface (GUI) is 3D CAD-based creating a virtual prototyping environment to perform software s ...

* Ulysse
Visual

Wysiwyg
(CAST software)

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