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Enhanced charting
The LightTools LumViewer, an interactive charting capability, has been significantly enhanced with a new look and many additional features to customize illumination simulation results to meet personal, company, or industry standards, Users can rotate and zoom 3D charts, change fonts and colors, view data on a logarithmic scale and make many other customizations as needed. Users can also save charting customizations in a template to reload for later use, or to set as a default for all LightTools charts. |
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Expanded Beam statistics
Detailed beam statistics have been added to LightTools simulation output to provide lighting designers with access to beam and field width information for analysis and optimization. These statistics are useful for determining the angular or spatial spread of a beam pattern generated by an optical system, such as luminaire. Designers also have the ability to automatically optimize the optical system to match a specified beam spread. |
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Cad file element
With the new CAD file element, LightTools entities can be associated with an externally created CAD file, so that users can update geometry with the click of a button without losing optical properties, names, or relations with other elements of the LightTools model. CATIA, IGES, SAT, and STEP formats are accepted. This capability simplifies the process of using CAD geometry in LightTools and ensures data integrity throughout design iterations. |
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Native Compound parabolic concentrator objects
3D compound parabolic concentrators (CPCs) and CPC reflectors are now available as native elements in LightTools. The CPC objects are useful in luminaire and solar design for collimating light from a source or concentrating light onto a receiver. The elements are fully optimizable; for example, users can automatically optimize a CPC's size and angle to match a target illumination distribution, intensity, total power, or flux on a receiver. |
