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Upgrade Your Illumination Designs
Is the performance or cost of your illumination system critical to the success of your products? LightTools will increase your engineering productivity, enable faster time-to-market, and give you the competitive edge you need.
Solve Design Challenges
Whatever your ultimate design goal is — better energy efficiency, brighter illumination with fewer sources, or optimized light distribution — LightTools provides you with an industrial strength toolkit to make it happen. Every release offers innovative new capabilities.
Automatically Get The Best Design Solution
Our groundbreaking illumination optimization capabilities are fully integrated, making it easy to define your performance criteria and let LightTools do the heavy lifting to find the best design solution.
Easier Visualization
Focus on design, not typing numbers into spreadsheets or constructing complicated macros. Jumpstart your system design and predict performance with LightTools’ application-specific tools to save hours or even days of setup and analysis time.
Quickly Handle Complex Geometry
LightTools helps you engineer solutions for getting light through a system and model unusually shaped optical components or geometrically complex fixed portions of the system.
Accuracy You Can Count On
Count on designs completed with LightTools to have accurate as-built performance, helping you get manufactured products to market faster.
Increase Productivity
LightTools’ advanced design and analysis capabilities, combined with its ease of use, will help you get more done in less time.
The Best Support In The Industry
Our customer success team is anchored by highly skilled optical engineers who are LightTools experts. If you ever need help, our team is available, along with videos, documentation, tutorials, example models, and more.
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LightTools Brochure
Design, optimize, analyze, and deliver innovative illumination systems. Create better optical designs with less effort and time.
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Why Choose LightTools?
If the performance or cost of your illumination system is critical to the success of your products, then you can depend on LightTools illumination design software.
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Applications
Applications
LEDs, displays, general lighting, solar, automotive, stray light simulation, and projectors.
Product literature
Download success stories, technical papers, and other product literature to learn about LightTools’ capabilities.
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Case Study
Case Study: ERCO, the Light Factory
ERCO used LightTools to design their sophisticated Spherolit reflectors for accent lighting, washlighting, and wallwashing applications.
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LightTools in CAD Environments for Freeform Optical Design
View the key features in LightTools for important analysis and optimization of freeform optical designs.
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Save Time and Money with LightTools
LightTools introduces valuable new tools to help optical engineers and stray light analysts pinpoint and correct stray light issues early in the product design process, saving time and money.
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Datasheet
LightTools 9.1 New Features Datasheet
Find out how to upgrade your illumination optics designs with the latest version of LightTools.