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

BIM Building information modeling (BIM) is an approach involving the generation and management of digital representations of the physical and functional characteristics of buildings or other physical assets and facilities. BIM is supported by vario ...

(Building Information Modeling), and

3D modeling In 3D computer graphics, 3D modeling is the process of developing a mathematical coordinate-based Computer representation of surfaces, representation of a surface of an object (inanimate or living) in Three-dimensional space, three dimensions vi ...

. The software is typically used by importing the structural design via

CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...

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 (optics), 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 ...

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 wit ...

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 In radiometry, radiance is the radiant flux emitted, reflected, transmitted or received by a given surface, per unit solid angle per unit projected area. Radiance is used to characterize diffuse emission and reflection of electromagnetic radiati ...

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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
LightStanza

LITESTAR 4D
* RELUX
Speos
* TracePro * Ulysse
Visual

Wysiwyg
(CAST software)

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