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Description
The first ever SolidWorks CAD-INTEGRATED solution 
 
- Providing:
Photometric & light simulation
Optimized opto-mechanical design
Physics based photo-realistic rendering

- Bringing many benfits for designers:
• COLLABORATIVE WORKSPACE FOR OPTICAL & MECHANICAL DESIGNERS           
• DESIGN TIME & COSTS REDUCED BY 70%
• EASY & UNLIMITED VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE GENERATION
• PARALLEL OPTICAL & MECHANICAL PARAMETERIZATION

- Perfect for lot of applications:
• luminous button • optical mouse • display • compact disc player • remote control • photocopier • video projector • bar code reader • luminaire • headlamp • tail lamp • dashboard • scanner • pda • watch • camera • keypad • mechanical system for laser • zoom • traffic light • microscope • projection system • telescope…

Features and benefits

Light Modeling :
• Interactive rays propagation from a point source or an emitting geometry
• Real source emission
• Multithreading
• Non sequential propagation - Photometry
• Interactive maps for illuminance simulation (Intensity distribution-3D irradiance map)
• Photometric optimization
• Virtual Photometer Laboratory :
    - Illuminance and Intensity distribution
    - False color level
    - Automatic cross section views and 2D/3D illuminance
    - Surface integration ratio
    - Standards compliance

Optical Design :
• Sequential propagation
• Optical calculation (Spot diagrams, aberrations, MTF, PSF, Paraxial data...)
• Optimization (more than 25 targets for changing optical and mechanical parameters)
• Multi-configuration
• Free form optics (CAD Spline tool)
• Changing one component automatically pilots updating of surrounding parts
• Rays treated as 3D sketches

Photo realism :
• Physics based approach
• BRDF-, spectral- and measure- based libraries
• Multithreading and one shot process
• Lit and unlit appareance

Options :
• Colorimetry - spectral/colorimetry-chromaticity coordinates (xyY, Lab, Luv…)
• Radiometry

Benefits :
• 100% integrated with SolidWorksฎ
• Free shape optics
• Easy to use
• Supplied with source, material, surface, optical components libraries
• Enables verification of the compliance with standards
• Over 70% of time saved on your prototypes
• Allows you to simulate multiple scenarios early to improve the lighting system quality and efficiency

Library
Surfaces : scattering, mirror…
Materials : plastics, glasses, metal…
Sources : automotive lamps, fluorescent, LED, arc lamps…
Optical components : Melles Griot, Geltech, Newport...

Maintenance
Maintenance gives you access to :
• new editions of the software published by Optis
• Hot line for help

Hot line is available in
• English
• German
• French
• Japanese

Licensing

Operating requirements
Hardware configuration :
• See SolidWorksฎ requirement first
• Pentium II/III or AMD K6 and higher based processor.
• Depending on the system you are using please check the size of the memory.

Table memory
Operating system . . . . . . . . . . Required memory
Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 Mb
Windows 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 Mb
Windows NT 4.X . . . . . . . . . . .128 Mb
Windows 2000 / XP . . . . . . . . .128 to 256 Mb
Where the memory is concerned please refer to Microsoft documentation about how to configure and to optimise the virtual memory system.
• Large hard drive (~2 Go is a minimum) with 100 Mb of free space.
• A graphic card that support the Open GL layer. Please check that you have the lastest version of the graphic card driver. Please download this from the supplier’s internet site. If your graphic card is not Open GL compliant you may have some problems when displaying a 3D view. It is recommended to have 8 to 16 Mb of memory on this card. It must be configured with 16 millions of colors and 800 x 600 (minimal) resolution. (1024x78 recommended).
• A network adpater

Software configuration :
• Windows NT (SP5 or 6), 2000 or XP families (95 and 98 also supported but not recommended).
• Installation of IE 5.0 or higher installation is necessary.
• OpenGL component must be installed properly and latest drivers installed..

Some references
Cubic Defense
Excil
GELCore
Roblon Fiber Optics
Teknoware
Vision Quest Lighting
>>complete references list