Lighttools v2024.03

LightTools Illumination Design - A complete design, optimization and analysis solution for illumination optics

LightTools enables you to quickly create illumination designs that work right the first try, reducing prototype iterations. Increase your productivity and decrease your time to market using LightTools' intelligent, easy-to-use tools.

Sophisticated solid modeling with full optical accuracy

State-of-the-art ray tracing speed, with full user control of accuracy and resolution requirements

Create a light source from any geometric model, for unlimited flexibility to create custom sources

Application-specific utilities to help you quickly build a complete model

Extensive source and materials libraries, including LEDs and BSDF measurements

Robust data exchange support for mechanical CAD data

Interactive, dynamic link with SOLIDWORKS

Multiple immersion for modeling the embedded phosphor in an encapsulated LED

Full integration with LightTools 3D solid modeling ensures that the optimizer delivers practical, realistic solutions that yield the best possible system performance, in a fraction of the time it would take to accomplish manually

Backlight Pattern Optimization for automatic design of backlight extraction patterns for LCDs, cell phone key pads, and automotive instrument clusters

LightTools’ interactive user interface is easy to learn and includes many features to boost your productivity as you create and modify illumination system elements.

Angular and spatial luminance analysis

Simulations of real-world conditions, including surface effects like polarization, scatter, reflection, refraction, and the performance of thin film coatings. Material effects such as dispersion, volumetric absorption, volume scattering, and color filtering can also be included.

Fast and robust forward and backward Monte Carlo ray tracing

Get accurate, fast predictions of your illumination system’s color performance.

High-fidelity transfer of models from CODE V for illumination, ghost image, and stray light analysis