A full fixture symbol set
Recessed downlights, surface and pendant fittings, track, wall-mounted and landscape fixtures, plus switches, dimmers, and occupancy sensors.
Add a Lighting Plan to Your Floor Plan
Upload a floor plan and describe fixture positions, switch locations, and dimmer zones room by room, and the tool draws standard lighting symbols over it — a planning aid to take to your electrician or lighting designer.
- Browser-based
- Standard symbol set
- Planning aid, not a permit set
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Plan Your Lighting Layout
Upload a floor plan and describe the fixtures, switches and zones to add.
Example prompt
Six recessed downlights on a 1.2m grid in the living room, three pendants over the kitchen island, and dimmers by the hall door.
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PNG or JPG up to 10MB
Work out the ceiling before the ceiling closes
Fixture positions are cheap to move now and expensive to move later.
Layer onto your own plan
Upload a PNG or JPG of your floor plan, up to 10MB. No plan yet? The floor plan creator generates one from a description first.
Spacing set in the prompt
Give a count or a grid per room, such as six downlights on a 1.2m grid, and regenerate until the layout reads sensibly against the furniture below.
Switching and control zones
Say which fixtures share a switch, where three-way switching is needed, and which groups get dimmers — the decisions that get forgotten until it is too late.
An image to brief from, not a CAD file
Each result is one raster image, saved to your designs and viewable full size. There is no DXF or vector export, so an electrician or lighting designer works it up into a proper reflected ceiling plan.
How to make a lighting plan
Start from a floor plan
Upload a clear PNG or JPG of the plan, up to 10MB. Clean line work and readable room labels give the symbols something to line up with.
Describe the fixtures
List downlights, pendants, and wall fittings room by room in the prompt, thinking about what each one is lighting.
Add switching and zones
Name the switch positions, the control zones, and where you want dimming, then generate the layout.
Review it with a licensed pro
Check the result, regenerate if a fixture is misplaced, then take the image to a licensed electrician or lighting designer to turn into the drawings that get installed.
Lighting Plan Maker FAQ
Still have a question?
Browse the Help Center or open a support ticket from your account.
Visit the Help CenterA drawing showing where light fixtures, switches, dimmers, and lighting circuits go in a space. It is often drawn as a reflected ceiling plan — a view of the ceiling as if mirrored on the floor — and it tells the installer what goes where.
A planning aid: not a construction document, not code-compliant or permit-ready, and no substitute for a licensed professional. A licensed electrician or engineer must prepare and sign off the final lighting drawings, checked against local code, before you apply for a permit or start work.
Working out how many fixtures a room wants, where the switches should fall as you walk in, and which groups need dimming — then handing that to your electrician as a clear brief rather than a conversation.
It depends on ceiling height, fixture output and beam angle, surface colours and the task in the room, and many places set minimum lighting levels and energy limits by code. Have a professional confirm the count rather than trusting a figure from a web page.
A lighting plan is about the ceiling — fixtures, switching, and control zones. An electrical plan covers power distribution more broadly, including outlets, circuits, and the panel.
Yes — upload a site plan instead of a floor plan and describe the path lights, spots, wall washers, and uplights, along with the low-voltage runs and transformer position you intend.
Sort the lighting before the plaster goes up
Describe the fixtures and switches for your plan, generate the layout, and review it with a professional.