LucidShape is an intelligent 3D CAD system for optical engineers. Bring your exterior lighting products to market ahead of your competitors.
The LucidShape 2024.09 release includes many new features to advance automotive lighting design:
- Creation of Micro Lens Masks: Micro-Lens-Arrays are used in projection systems for icon projection for both, interior and exterior automotive lighting applications. For an optical engineer, the illumination design task is to find a suitable mask geometry to achieve the desired illumination distribution. To alleviate this burden on the user, we have automated the mask computation process.
- New ways to generate small facets using the MacroFocal tools: Design trends are creating lenses with thousands and tens of thousands of facets. The MacroFocal tools have been expanded to make working with these large numbers of facets easier.
- Configure facets using a CSV file. Instead of working with a grid of settings in the LucidShape interface, export your settings to a CSV file that you can edit in a spreadsheet tool, and then import back into LucidShape.
- MacroFocal Reflector and Lens tools expanded to include mini pillows. You can now add micro-facets to each facet of your MacroFocal design.
- Update facets independently. Instead of recalculating hundreds of facets to see a change that only affects one facet, you can now recalculate facet by facet, speeding up your design process.
- New and revised benchmark and regulation tools supporting adaptive driving beam (ADB) design:
- US-NCAP Benchmark Tool
- FMVSS 108 ADB Tool
- Regulation Checker
- C-IASI Benchmark Tool
- C-NCAP Benchmark Tool
- Advanced Analysis improvements:
- Support for bitmap images, allowing you to analyze and compare data from photographs or other renders of a design.
- New preprocessing options include adjusting the UV range, adding a gradient, and automatic headlamp aiming.
- Ability to add an aiming wall
- New measurements for centroids
