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Businesses looking for a powerful lighting and controls design solution

About Visual Lighting

The Visual programs are comprehensive lighting software designed for industry professionals. The desktop applications, Visual Lighting and Visual Controls, increase your productivity and accuracy with an intuitive software to automate your design process. Visual Lighting is an intuitive software tool to develop a lighting design for interior and exterior spaces. This powerful modeling software combines lighting and energy calculation tools to create lighting designs and provides comprehensive intelligence and analysis for advanced lighting projects. Visual Controls is a comprehensive design software for creating lighting controls design for a space. The software is easy to use and provides product recommendations, assists with product placement, and automates the design process.

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Overall 2.0 / 5
ease 1.0 / 5
features 3.0 / 5
design 2.0 / 5
support 2.0 / 5
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Acuity Brands
United States
www.acuitybrands.com/resources/technical-resources/visual-lighting-software

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  • Markus M.
    Staff Engineer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 26 - 99
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    "Bad Review"

    Posted 2026-07-15

    Pros: I liked how you can add calculation zones to different layers. That is helpful.

    Navigating around the model is pretty fluid.

    The different views in the top toolbar are pretty helpful.

    Cons: The software is incredibly slow.

    The Properties tab does not work half the time. I'll be in the Statistics tab and right click on one of the calculation zones, and it will not go into the properties of the calculation zone. That bothered me a lot. I was especially difficult when the calculation zones are hidden but not in the default calculation zone.

    Visual Print Editor is by far the WORST software I have ever used. I am not angry; I feel that it must be emphasized how difficult and non-user-friendly the software is to use. The scaling feature is incredibly laggy. When using tables, the table placement is not measure in rows; its measured it some unit, mm maybe, but still incredibly frustrating.

    Thankfully I do not have to use this software all the time.

    Overall: Its an inconvenience using Visual Lighting and I dread using it.

    I liked how you can add calculation zones to different layers. That is helpful.

    Navigating around the model is pretty fluid.

    The different views in the top toolbar are pretty helpful.

    But, the software is incredibly slow.

    The Properties tab does not work half the time. I'll be in the Statistics tab and right click on one of the calculation zones, and it will not go into the properties of the calculation zone. That bothered me a lot. I was especially difficult when the calculation zones are hidden but not in the default calculation zone.

    Visual Print Editor is by far the WORST software I have ever used. I am not angry; I feel that it must be emphasized how difficult and non-user-friendly the software is to use. The scaling feature is incredibly laggy. When using tables, the table placement is not measure in rows; its measured it some unit, mm maybe, but still incredibly frustrating.

    Thankfully I do not have to use this software all the time.

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