LightTools. is a unique optical engineering and design software product that
features virtual prototyping, simulation, and optimization of precision
illumination applications. The software has adapted solid modeling technology
to accommodate the inherent accuracy required to simulate ray paths of light
as they traverse through and within optical elements and mechanical structures.
The software is straightforward to use, accurate, has the most advanced
capabilities commercially available, and supports the tasks of design and
engineering iterations in addition to analysis.
LightTools' unique power lies in its complementary strengths of design and
analysis. The analysis gives you the status of how well your design is working
against spec, and the design features help you quickly and efficiently improve
the design, in both the initial concept phase and during engineering iterations
and refinements. It is this coupling of benefits (design and analysis) that makes
LightTools really pay off in terms of productivity improvement, faster time to
market, and better engineered products.
While analysis requires only the initial creation or importing of geometry,
practical design requires quick and simple geometry modifications. You can
perform easy design modifications because LightTools' implementation of Boolean
operations and trimming operations retains the parametric information about how
the geometry was created. Surface and material properties are also maintained
as you edit the model, allowing quick analysis of multiple design forms.
LightTools' basic 3D solid primitives, sphere, ellipse, toroid, block, cylinder
(including cone), extrusion and rotationally swept polyline, can be
parametrically edited and inserted with any size, in any location, and at any
angle. Complex objects previously defined using Boolean operations can be edited
at any time (even after the object is complete); the object does not need to be
deleted and recreated. Each solid can be combined with any other solid (native
or imported) using the Boolean operations, union, intersection, and subtraction.
This allows the creation of complex, as-fabricated, models, such as segmented
reflectors and multifaceted lightpipes. Note that the complex elements can be
optical, mechanical, or structural components.
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