Product Applications

LightTools is a software product targeted to a technology: optical illumination. Many end-products across a large and diverse set of industries have and continue to benefit from LightTools use. Some examples follow, highlighting features within LightTools that are of particular interest to the industry cited.

Some useful LightTools features: Surface treatments, including 2D patterns and 3D textures

Backlight design tools supplied with LightTools

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Some useful LightTools features: interactive construction and parametric editing of complex shapes

Complex light pipe of radio button illumination

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Some useful LightTools features: LED and filament sources; CAD import/export

Dome light example

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Some useful LightTools features: Macro control of spline, sweep, and patch surfaces

LightTools  designed and analyzed fog light

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Some useful LightTools features: Reflector construction and automatic pattern-generation tools

Variety of MR16's designed with faceted reflector utility

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Some useful LightTools features: Coatings, polarization, and colorimetry

Digital projector plus illumination, RGB checker board color plots of the different and conbine channels

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Some useful LightTools features: Surface and volumetric sources with user defined  angular, spatial, and volume distributions - coupled with 3D Boolean geometry permits LightTools to create almost any source.

Source models and output

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LightTools solar design utilities enable engineers to virtually prototype and analyze solar collection systems.

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