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LucidShape
Optical design software to design, analyze, and visualize automotive lighting systems
Speed Into the Future of Automotive Lighting Design
The LucidShape product family provides a complete set of tools that enable optical engineers to design, simulate, and analyze innovative automotive lighting solutions. Streamline the design process, then simulate, verify, and optimize those designs before entering testing and fabrication stages. The SmartStart Library also provides designers with materials and media commonly used in automotive lighting system designs. These elements include refractive index and absorption data, as well as predefined volume scatter and bidirectional scattering distribution function (BSDF) materials.
With multiple modules and configurations, products in the LucidShape family provide fast, reliable engineering solutions for design, 3D visualization, and validation. LucidShape empowers engineers to get better products to market faster.
Products in the LucidShape Family
LucidShape
LucidShape allows you to create and analyze automotive lighting designs. It includes modules to streamline shape creation, simulation, and interactive analysis.
- Calculate and construct optical geometries with LucidShape’s proprietary algorithms.
- Accelerate illumination simulations with the GPUTrace module.
- Deliver fast, photorealistic images with the Visualize module.
- Simulate light sources, surfaces, materials, and sensors.
- Access the SmartStart Library for materials and media.
LucidShape CAA V5 Based
Increase productivity with LucidShape CAA V5 Based, the industry’s only complete workflow solution available within the CATIA V5 environment to create and visualize automotive lighting designs.
- Experience efficient design navigation and management.
- Use physics-based visualization tools for photorealistic images and simulations.
- Gain automatic construction, analysis, and optimization of light guides and their extraction features.
- Access the SmartStart Library of materials including refractive index and absorption data.
LucidDrive
LucidDrive night-driving simulation explores the effectiveness of your automotive lighting designs before costly fabrication and testing phases. With this standalone simulation tool, conduct realistic beam pattern evaluations for vehicle headlamps to ensure optimal performance in real-world conditions.
- Switch between lamps, scenes, and viewing positions for immediate, interactive feedback.
- Use automatic driving mode to eliminate the need for steering, accelerating, or breaking.
- Simulate pixel light technology with the adaptive front lighting system feature.
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LucidShape automotive lighting software enables optical engineers to design, analyze, and verify automotive lighting solutions. With three products within the LucidShape family, optical designers can design exterior and interior lighting systems, perform headlight and night driving simulations, and ultimately get better automotive lighting products to market faster.
LucidShape provides multiple modules to help your team build, analyze, and simulate lighting designs, light sources, and illumination systems.
LucidShape CAA V5 Based is the industry’s only complete workflow solution available within the CATIA V5 environment that enables optical designers to create and visualize automotive lighting designs.
LucidDrive is a night driving simulator software that enables optical engineers to test their lighting designs before manufacturing.
All products in the LucidShape product family provide access to the SmartStart Library of materials commonly used in optical design, including refractive index and absorption data.