Best Lighting Design Software for Windows
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What is Lighting Design Software for Windows?
Lighting design software is software used to create detailed plans and simulations for any type of interior, exterior, landscape or other architectural lighting projects. It allows for the specification, calculation and modeling of various variables such as position, distribution, intensity and control. This software can help to save time and resources when designing complex lighting systems. Compare and read user reviews of the best Lighting Design software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Coohom
Coohom
Coohom is a leading global cloud-based, 3D design platform that provides all-in-one software and services to empower designers and businesses to design a professional project in minutes, and get photo-realistic 3D visualizations in seconds. With a presence spanning the United States, China, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia, Coohom's innovative solutions have garnered the trust of over 10 million customers from 200 countries. With the aim of facilitating the digital transformation of customers in the interior design, furniture & home decor, and Kitchen & Bath industry, Coohom provides a comprehensive suit of software encompassing design, rendering, marketing, production, and construction, helping to streamline their workflows and achieve success.Starting Price: $0 per month -
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ReluxDesktop
RELUX Informatik AG
ReluxDesktop is a high-performance, intuitively-operated application for simulating artificial light and daylight. It provides you with rapid and efficient support on all the different aspects of big and small projects, without taking any unnecessary roundabout routes. Simulation of lighting and sensors in real-time! Calculation of absolute values, national and international standards, compatible with CAD and BIM systems, plus a great deal more. The application is available to you free of charge thanks to the support of our partners in the industry. Make ReluxDesktop your day-to-day tool, you'll be surprised how much time you save with it! Add-on for other programs. Useful functions for Autodesk Revit. Add-on for ReluxDesktop. Real tunnel calculation based on the current standards.Starting Price: free of charge -
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GreenScapes
Landscape Design Imaging Software
GreenScapes is a fast and easy landscape, hardscape, and lighting design program. It is our most extensive program. Create landscape designs in a matter of minutes. Designs are photo-realistic renderings with the landscape, hardscape, and lighting installed. Greenscapes comes with built-in training videos for every command in the program and a tutorial sequence that takes you through a complete design step by step. There are no boring manuals to read. We also have advanced techniques you might want to see. GreenScapes will help you close the deal quickly. Potential clients fall madly in love with being able to see their home as if you completed the project. Let us show you. Our programs are Windows-based but work on a Mac with virtual environments like Parallels/Windows making it easy to switch between macOS and Windows in a single click, giving Mac users the best of both worlds. Create beautiful photo-realistic designs using GreenScapes landscape content.Starting Price: $500 one-time payment -
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SweetLight
SweetLight
The SweetLight DMX controller system includes powerful lighting control software and a set of DMX interfaces to suit your requirements. Fully take advantage of your lights with an easy DMX control system, and let the software play alone a varied show for hours. Select a group of par cans and adjust channel levels & fade mode and duration for each step. Select a group of moving lights, and for the chosen channels, load/draw a curve and adjust the delay between all fixtures. Select the fixtures and apply them rainbow/text scrolling / animated pictures effects. Customize your screen with pages, buttons and sliders of your choice. Connect a midi control surface to drive all with color control of the midi buttons. Drag and drop the light & audio & video files at a specific time to build the show. Build your stage with our bank of 3D objects, position your fixtures, and watch the lightshow in our 3D rendering.Starting Price: Free -
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ChalmLite
Chalmit
3D realistic renders, multi-language support, improved CAD layer management and so much more, discover ChalmLite 6.0 today. With simple, user-friendly windows based interfaced packed with new features, ChalmLite 6.0 allows users to create simple or complex lighting designs. Visualize lighting designs in realistically rendered 3D environments. Utilize a comprehensive set of quick estimators for your project and download the results in single-page reports. Enhanced luminaire selection tools for hazardous environments. Reports with links directly to online product resources.Starting Price: Free -
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HDR Light Studio
Lightmap
The best way to achieve realistic 3D lighting is through the influence of real-world lighting references. In the 3D industry, HDRI lighting is used to aid with replicating real-life lighting scenarios. The HDRI map used highly affects the quality of HDRI lighting. The conventional ways of making your own HDRI maps involve picking up a camera and shooting real-life environments. So, it’s no surprise that many 3D artists settle for off-the-shelf stock HDRI Maps. However, that’s like a photographer using the same lighting setup for a motorcycle and a car shoot – it will never happen. It’s why we believe that 3D artists deserve to handcraft a unique lighting design for every 3D scene. Perfect lighting is achieved by having the right lights in the right place. HDR Light Studio has been engineered to take this literally. It’s why it’s known as the ultimate 3D lighting design tool to easily and quickly create your HDRI maps.Starting Price: $176.22 per year -
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OptiWin 3D Pro
Glamox
OptiWin 3D Pro is our own lighting calculation program, which we offer free of charge to our customers and partners. The program makes it possible to carry out lighting calculations for comprehensive and complex projects. Correct lighting calculations are important for maritime and oil and gas projects to satisfy norms and requirements and lux levels. Such calculations also make it possible to implement corrective measures at an early stage of a project. OptiWin 3D Pro calculations are provided in the form of well-documented reports. Provides easy and fast lighting calculations using CAD drawings.Starting Price: Free -
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ElumTools
Lighting Analysts
ElumTools® is the first (and only) fully integrated lighting calculation add-in for Autodesk® Revit®. ElumTools is designed to calculate point-by-point illuminance on any workplane or surface utilizing lighting fixture families and surface geometry already present in the Revit model. ElumTools runs completely inside of Revit with its own ribbon toolbar to provide quick access to analysis tools for Revit Rooms, Spaces, Regions and Views. An interactive Radiosity-based visualization is produced by the calculation process providing designers complete walk-through capability to assist in the understanding the interaction of light and surface. ElumTools is easy to learn and even easier to use regularly for your lighting computations. The ElumTools workflow is fast and efficient, saving you countless hours over trying to export geometry to a stand-alone tool, then fussing to integrate the results with your Revit sheets.Starting Price: $94 per user per month -
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ArKaos MediaMaster
ArKaos
The Remote Player which will be of interest to those working on long term shows, permanent installations and in other fixed environment scenarios Remote Player is a network-based player allowing the control of multiple servers from a single point on the network. The internal encoder means Cue Lists can be allocated to separate applications. Connect your Elgato Stream Deck to that maximizes workflow and direct access to sources and outputs as needed. MediaMaster Pro ships with the new Video Mapper Extension which allows easy mapping of video onto irregularly shaped surfaces and through multiple outputs. The philosophy behind all ArKaos’ control solutions focuses on making video surfaces, screens, etc., work just like moving lights. The goal is to empower lighting designers, programmers and operators and help make the integration of video and pixel light sources seamless with lighting in their visual designs via DMX control and without needing to utilize a separate video controller.Starting Price: €139 per week -
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DIALux
DIAL
DIALux is the world's leading software for lighting design and marketing tool for luminaire manufacturers. DIALux is free of charge and available in 25 languages. More than 750,000 professional users worldwide, including engineers, electricians and lighting designers, plan, calculate and visualize light for indoor and outdoor areas with DIALux, using real products from more than 190 renowned luminaire manufacturers. From entire buildings and individual rooms to car parks or street and emergency lighting. Create a unique atmosphere with genuine products from our DIALux members and convince with an individual lighting project. Become a DIALux member now. Increase your brand awareness, expand your reach and generate quality leads by connecting with potential customers during the digital planning process. Benefit from the special advantages of DIALux membership. Plan, calculate and visualize light for indoor and outdoor areas.Starting Price: Free -
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LightCalc
LightCalc
Let's face it, lighting is difficult to learn and, once learned, cumbersome to perform. Interior designers, architects, kitchen and bath designers want to take control of their lighting plans, but don't always have the necessary technical lighting background, not to mention the time to perform the tedious calculations. LightCalc was created to solve these problems. No longer is it necessary to know any of the math! The program works with information the designer has ready access to; ceiling height, room width and length, counter height, color pallette, etc. Upon entering the above type of information, 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.Starting Price: $39.95 one-time payment -
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set.a.light 3D
elixxier Software
set a light 3D revolutionizes the way modern photographers and filmmakers plan their setups. It gives creative people the opportunity to express themselves faster, bring their ideas to life and saves them from guessing. From a simple portrait shoot to a complex photo production - it's all possible. Dive into a world full of possibilities and push your projects further. It has never been so easy to achieve breathtaking results. It's for you - for cinematography and photography! We have created a place that solves these problems through the power of community. The community connects all set a light 3D users and helps you to get the best out of your work. One of the most important points in the development have been the models. The avatars look extremely real and harmonize perfectly with the new light calculation.Starting Price: $71 one-time payment -
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Capture
Capture
Bring lighting, media and motion into your visualisation. Our rendering engine's outstanding colour accuracy and amazing performance will impress you right away! With a complete library of lighting fixtures, trusses, LED panels and video projectors you have everything you need to make your ideas come to life. When your design is complete you can render it to high quality image and video files. You can also export Capture's unique, stand-alone, presentations which deliver full interactivity with your design. Our DirectX and Metalnative rendering engine uses a wide colour ACEScg pipeline to ensure that the rendering and all colours are as reliable as technically possible. Get more out of the communication with your lighting console such as DMX talkback for fixture focusing, fixture selection for programming and patch exchange for setup.Starting Price: Free -
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Landscape Lighting Software
Landscape Lighting Software
Our programs are Windows-based but work on a Mac with Virtual environments like Parallels/Windows making it easy to switch between macOS and Windows in a single click, giving Mac users the best of both worlds. Be sure to review the FAQ Page. Manufacturer option be added on the Landscape Lighting Site. Customized Software just with one manufacturer fixtures. Our easy-to-use lighting tool allows you to draw light at any width or intensity or spread the light out. Be sure to watch all the training movies.Starting Price: $260 one-time payment -
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TracePro
Lambda Research Corporation
Combines Monte Carlo ray tracing, analysis, CAD import/export, and optimization methods with a complete and robust macro language to solve a wide variety of problems in illumination design and optical analysis. Using TracePro’s user-friendly, 3D CAD interface you can create TracePro models by importing lens design or CAD files, or by directly creating solid geometry. TracePro uses a true solid modeling engine to ensure consistent and robust models. TracePro’s ray tracing engine is fast and accurate. Exact ray tracing to all surfaces even imported splines ‒ no missed intersections or “leaky” rays. Analysis Mode ray tracing, unique to TracePro, is a very powerful capability that creates an interactive environment. With Analysis Mode you can analyze every surface and object both visually and quantitatively. -
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Light-in-Night
Light-in-Night
Application for the design of street lighting and open areas. A mobile tool for designers and lighting specialists. Helps buyers of lighting equipment with the choice of fixtures. Set the parameters of the illuminated site or road. Choose fixtures and how to install them. After the calculation, you will receive a visual 3D model of the scene with a display of the illumination distribution. You can save the results of the lighting calculation and the parameters of the scene objects in the report. Sample projects made by professional lighting technicians will allow you not only to evaluate the possibilities of the program, but also to design your own lighting objects based on them.Starting Price: Free -
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LightStanza
LightStanza
LightStanza is trusted and accurate software. Users can now easily and accurately predict light in a variety of applications. Quickly communicate with team members and support with instant messaging embedded in your design. Import or start fresh, drop ies files in, and run your calcs. You can be up and running in minutes. Calc complex geometry without slowing down your computer and keep working. Explore a variety of daylight products including skylights, translucent glazing, dynamic glass, automated shading systems, and more. Highly customizable, point in time, annual metric, daylight factor, energy map, and glare calculations. euse Room and Space tags; plus add your own calc grids for verticals, slopes, stairs, exteriors and other areas. Dynamically choose and send families to LightStanza to cut back or add detail to your model.Starting Price: $900 per design per year -
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LucidShape
Synopsys
Quickly and easily create reflector or lens geometry with LucidShape FunGeo. It leverages proprietary algorithms that automatically calculate and construct optical geometries based on user-defined illuminance and intensity patterns. This unique, functional approach gives you the freedom to focus on overall design objectives rather than the implementation details of complex optical components. Accelerate LucidShape illumination simulations with GPUTrace and experience a quantum leap in speed. LucidShape is the first optical simulation software to take advantage of graphics processing unit computing to deliver simulation speed increases by orders of magnitude compared to multithreading capabilities. Use LucidShape's visualization module to demonstrate luminance effects when light sources in a model are illuminated and depict all interactions between system geometry and light sources. -
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Rayfront
schorsch.com
Rayfront is a platform-independent toolkit that provides a graphical user interface to the lighting simulation software Radiance. It can be operated as an extension to Autocad or Intellicad, together with the 3Dsolar building modeller, or as a standalone program. Radiance is the industry standard raytracing engine for physically correct lighting simulations (see comparisons). While Radiance can be downloaded for free from LBNL, only a toolbox such as Rayfront enables people like you and me to use it effectively on desktop computers and in your local network. You can also use Rayfront together with many other CAD and modelling programs, as it reads all DXF files, and translators for a large number of other data formats are included. Just select the free or commercial geometry modeler of your preference, and there will be a way to use it's output data with Rayfront. -
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Lighting Reality
Lighting Reality
LR Studio is a new, comprehensive suite of lighting design software tools for suppliers & designers of exterior lighting projects. We’ve spent a great deal of time over the last 2 years, listening to you, our customers, telling us what you need and want from lighting design software to improve your productivity, reduce costs & make your lives easier. Reality roadway and outdoor are being upgraded with added functionality and a fresh new user interface. New modules assist with automating & simplifying workflows so you can release more time to work on other things. Whether you are a manufacturer preparing tender submissions, developing new optics, or a designer working on major LED upgrades or a simple scheme. At the heart of LR studio is our all-new calculation engine. Not only does it provide a 50-fold increase in calculation speeds, but we have also rigorously tested it to ensure it meets the same standards of accuracy that you have come to expect from lighting reality. -
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LITESTAR 4D Litecalc
OxyTech Srl
LITESTAR 4D Litecalc is the lighting design module including the following functions: 2D and 3D design and management of the indoor areas, outdoor areas (large areas and areas for sports), roads and tunnels, management of materials with the definition of characteristics such as reflectance, transparency, specularity and roughness and the possibility of adding textures to surfaces, management of the results of the calculation with visualization of the various parameters, of isolevel curves (isolux or isoluminance) and of pseudo colors diagrams, visualization by means of the rendering and ray-tracing module of photographic quality and printing of project data, results of calculations as well as of graphic visualizations and renderings. -
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KeyLIGHTS
Transoft Solutions
KeyLIGHTS is a highway lighting software package for creating working drawings of proposed highway lighting schemes. It includes its own illuminance calculation engine, a Roadway design tool, and a fully integrated Highway Power Calculation (HPC) module. KeyLIGHTS also provides for you to design all the civil works for the installation of your street lights. With full support for BIM and 3D meaning you can now share the data-rich designs with other software such as Navisworks or maintenance inventory. KeyLIGHTS includes a powerful fully featured lighting calculations engine. Light levels are dynamically generated from the photometric data files specified for your luminaire symbols, Transoft Solutions support services include user group meetings and upgrades, to keep you up to date with standards and legislation. -
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AGi32
Revalize
AGi32 is first and foremost, a calculation tool for accurate photometric predictions: A technical tool that can compute illuminance in any situation, assist in luminaire placement and aiming, and validate adherence to any number of lighting criterion. However, there is so much more that can be done to enhance the understanding of photometric results. Visualization is extremely important to comprehend changes in luminance for different materials and surface properties and predict the effect of various luminaire designs in real-world, light and surface interaction. With the ability to see results clearly for an entire project, AGi32 becomes a mock-up substitute that can save time and money by creating a virtual model of a proposed design. It can reveal characteristics and effects that would be hard to detect in anything short of the completed installation.
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