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SPIE Optical Systems Design
November 27-29, 2012
Light Tec
Barcelona, Spain
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February 2-7, 2013
Booth 2017
The Moscone Center
San Francisco, California
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February 12-14, 2013
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LightTools 8.0 RC Available Now
We are pleased to announce that the Release Candidate (RC) of LightTools 8.0 is available for download.
LightTools 8.0 RC is an early version that we are making available to customers who would like to begin using its new capabilities now. This version has already undergone extensive testing, and we feel that the quality of this software is high. If you encounter any problems in this version, we encourage you to notify us. We will address critical issues before we ship the final LightTools 8.0 early in 2013. LightTools 8.0 RC is available only by download from the links provided below.
32-bit version:
https://opticalres.thruinc.net/ExDn.aspx?id=031ISMABGCG
64-bit version:
https://opticalres.thruinc.net/ExDn.aspx?id=031PA34RAIL
LightTools 8.0 RC License Files
Your LightTools 7.3.0 license file is valid to use for LightTools 8.0 RC. If you do not have a LightTools 7.3.0 license file, you can obtain one from the Synopsys SolvNet site: https://solvnet.synopsys.com.
Key Features in LightTools 8.0 RC
LightTools 8.0 delivers many useful enhancements, including these key new features:
Multi-CPU support enables forward simulation processes to take advantage of all CPUs or cores on a computer. This can dramatically improve the speed of simulations, as well as analyses and optimizations. The multi-CPU feature is built into LightTools, so it performs automatically whenever you run a forward simulation.
New 3D objects are now available in LightTools: revolved solids, extruded solids, revolved sheets, extruded sheets, and freeform sheets. These new objects expand the range of shapes you can create in LightTools for designing state-of-the-art lighting components.
Display of simulation results in the 3D Design view has been enhanced to provide more display options. For example, you can now display illuminance results for all dummy plane receivers in a model at once, or display results in true color as well as false color.
Improvements to parametric controls include the ability to save user notes and data in string and grid parameters, as well as new ways to move and group controls. These enhancements help you to more easily manage the parameters that control the geometry, position, and function of each component in a LightTools model.
The Source Array Utility is new in this release. This utility allows you to convert a given surface of a solid to an array of sources whose parent source is a native LightTools source or a ray data source.
The Street Lighting Utility has been enhanced with many new capabilities, including the addition of a Theoretical Intensity Distribution, in which you can define a distribution (illuminance or luminance) that is either Gaussian or uniform across the roadway. For details about all of the updates to the Street Lighting Utility, see Chapter 5 in the LightTools Utilities User’s Guide or watch the videos linked below.
For More Information
For more information on these and other enhancements in LightTools 8.0 RC:
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