OptisWorks is the only lighting simulation software that is fully integrated within Dassault Systèmes’ SolidWorks® 3D CAD software. OPTIS users become a part of the SolidWorks collaborative workspace in a unique PLM concurrent process. Integrated technology means you use exactly the same CAD software for your mechanical design, lighting analysis, optical design, and rendering. A unified data model simplifies and accelerates the design process, protects data integrity, and enables engineers to collaborate transparently. The average OptisWorks customer reduces the time and subsequent cost of design by 65%!

With twenty years of practical application, OptisWorks is the most full featured and realistic tool to create, analyze, and virtually validate innovative lighting systems. OptisWorks is differentiated by its ability to simulate human perception and the lit appearance of products and systems, so you can optimize the visual ergonomics of human-machine interfaces.

OptisWorks provides three powerful add-ins in SolidWorks: visual ergonomics, light modeling, and architectural lighting.

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Geometries

• CAD import (IGES, STEP, DXF)
• Geometry modeling
• SolidWorks Geometries

Libraries
Access comprehensive libraries of measured data on materials, surfaces, light sources, and industry standards.

Materials

• Optical material
• Volume diffusing, volume tinted
• Fluorescent
• Infrared
• Advanced editor

Surfaces

• Mirror, polished
• Diffusing, absorbing
• BSDF
• Coating
• Advanced editor

Sources

• LED, automotive, or other lamp
• Emissive geometry

Simulation

• Full set of photometric simulation tools in the visible spectrum
• 3D ray tracing
• UV and IR
• Laser
• PC cluster calculations
• Smart simulation engine executes fast, accurate photon propagation algorithm
• Multithreading enables use of the software while running simulations

Spectrum generator

• Interactive user-defined spectrum emission for sources
• Real measured BRDF and BTDF properties
• Volume absorbing materials editor
• Spectral absorption in materials

Analysis

• Virtual photometric lab
• Human vision
• Colorimetry
• Light expert

Validation

• Full virtual prototype
• Standards compliance
• Aspect visualization
• Environmental integration