LucidShape Enewsletter

Key Improvements Include:

Source Modeling and Positioning

• Using the Surface Light Source, create sources with complex shapes by adding light emitting properties to the surface of any shape.
• Select from multiple axis system types for sources and create copies of the source at mutliple locations with the Axis System Pattern.

Geometric Modeling

• Easily adjust tessellation parameters on individual actors for high-accuracy simulations while optimizing overall simulation performance.
• Define a MacroFocal reflector or lens base grid with the Grid of Curves feature by selecting vertical and horizontal curves from CATIA.

Advanced Analysis Capabilities

• Interactively analyze a light distribution to see if your system meets requirements model by performing measurements on points, splines, polygons, or CATIA Curves.
• Analyze multiple lamps at one time by combining multiple UV Data files and taking measurements on the results.
• Save measurement sets to reuse on different UV Data files.
• Export measurements to a table for later review.

Sensor Modeling

• Select the surface on which a generated ray file will be recorded from the Ray File Sensor.
• Select from multiple axis system types for sensors.
• Illustrate qualitative lit appearance using the Light Flow Sensor.

Light Guide Design Module Improvements

• Use the new Surface light guide option to create prisms as a single surface that is split from a solid light guide. This approach is similar to the LucidShape PrismBand feature and creates the prisms faster than the default Boolean approach.
• Try the new Texture light guide option (an Alpha feature) to optimize laser-etched texture surfaces (where each surface is modeled as a LucidShape combo actor) along a light guide to achieve uniform lit appearance of the optical property and zones.
• Construct user profiles more easily with new tools that allow you to use sampled points from a user curve projected into the reference plane and rotated according to a starting point and the direction that you specify.

SmartStart Library

• Use newly added measured BSDF materials and media available in the SmartStart Library from MoldTech, Vergason, and others.

Usability Enhancements

• Compatible with CATIA V5 R30 (without service packs)
• New source and sensor glyphs
• GPU performance improved to enable the use of NVIDIA's latest technology