LucidShapeG is a powerful software tool for the design of ighting systems and optical components. This special edition for general lighting combines versatile state-of-the-art lighting tools with an intuitive design interface and extraordinary accurate photometric raytracing capabilities.
LucidShape 1.9.1
Highlights (details see below)
- Interactive edit of curves on surface
- Improvements in verios dialogs for simulation and geometric modelling
- new feature in lens and reflector calculations
- improved ray trace speed and extensions in materials
- the default save method is now binary
Simulation
- improved speed in Monte Carlo ray trace in accurate (Nurbs), fast (triangle), and triangle/Nurbs; by up to 10%
- rework & simplify Dialog for Luminance Camera
- direction-coding colour for rays from ray history sensor
- in dialog “LED point light source” and “LED source libary”; optional to the complete point source, one ray can create only the emitter material
Dialog
- the default storage mode is now Binary for a fast save and load. The ASCII text files can be saved with “Save ASCII”
- have simple angular inputs for AxisSystems like in Light Source orientation rather than vectors or in addition to vectors
- interactive create and edit of polylines, NurbsCurves, ControlCurves and ControlSurfaces
- improve edit dialog for light data object; avoid data copies which are not necessary
- NURBS check box in create regular curve dialogs to create a nurbs directly
- “Set Color” works now well as for rays
- input fields in simulation dialogs MC+LM with number of rays*1000
- Options ->Global Settings->CAD Options: AxisSystems now with name edit
- in the transformation dialog there is now a new tag for simple mirror in X,Y and/or Z
- coloured text enter fields for special types like vertical and horizontal spread in MF dialog
- for big dialog control matrices (like spread block) we have now + and – buttons to increase/decrease the number of displayed rows or columns
UV Data / LucidLite
- import and export for a new photometric file format from FORD.frd
Material
- lambertian refractive material now with optional factor to control the ratio of TIR reflector and transmission
- define emitter material with inverse emitting direction not just in direction of the normal
Streetlighting
- reverse sensor light now also from cd/m^2 sensor and R table
- set lux distribution on the road by LID file and calculate the reverse sensor light
CAD Data import/export
- export AxisSsystems as 3 lines+points
- export rays as lines
Geometric Modelling
- rework dialog for Merit function and Optimizer
- parameter space explorer; Can be used i.e to verify a sequence of source positions to check tolerance
- FF lamp with multi chip rectangle source
back lighting
- prism band with more parameter controlled by curves: delta, gap, height, alpha-prism up, beta prism down, gamma about normal, width1, width2
PS Design Feature
- PS spread curve alone
- S-shape connection step in profile curve
MF Design Feature
- optional lumen exit sensor on calculated reflector on lens to verify how much light goes over the reflector
- Copy Block, “X Mirror Block”, “Y Mirror Block” in MF application
- for big control matrices like spread we can set the number of columns and rows
- S-shape connection patches
- FF lamp with “No lamp forsimulation” option; good for MF application
PCS Design Feature
- new PCS design feature class with improved dialog. The curve can now be also PS curves
LED optics Collimator
- new surfaces types: extruded with round ends, North-East-South. South-West-North