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Compare TracePro Editions

Three editions of TracePro are available to cost-effectively accommodate your design needs. Please contact us for assistance in selecting an edition of TracePro that best meets your specific requirements.  The table below has an overview of the features available in each edition of TracePro.
Features
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
User-friendly CAD Interface
Interoperability with commercial CAD and Lens Design Software
Material property catalogs of commercially available glass, plastics, metals, GRINs, fluorophores and biological tissue
Surface property catalogs of commercially available thin film coatings, anodizing, paints
Library of commercially available lenses and filters
Notes Editor
Full-featured Macro Language (Scheme)  
Macro Recorder  
Scheme Editor  
Source Property Generator

 

Surface Property Generator
DMD Texture Generator
IES/LDT Import and Analysis
Texture Optimizer II (Real Geometry)
 
 
Solar Emulator
Interactive Optimizer
 
Geometry Modeler    
Fluorescence Property Generator    
Solid Modeling
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert

CAD File Import/Export

SAT (ACIS) Read/Write

 

STEP Read/Write
IGES Read/Write
Read: Creo - Pro/E, Inventor, SOLIDWORKS, SolidEdge, CATIA 4, CATIA 5, NX, AutoCAD files

Lens Design File Import

CODE V, OSLO, ZEMAX Read

CAD Features

Solid Modeling
Boolean Operations
Healing Imported Files
3D Interactive View
Rendered Objects
Transparent Objects
Measurement Capabilities
Photorealistic Rendering
Properties
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
Surface Property

 

Bulk Absorption
Diffraction  
Bulk Scatter  
GRIN  
Thin Film Stacks  
Polarization  
Diffraction Gratings  
Temperature-Dependent Properties  
Direction-Sensitive Surfaces  
Scatter Models - Symmetric
Scatter Models - Asymmetric  
Anisotropic Surface Properties  
Tabular Scatter Models - Symmetric  
Tabular Scatter Models - Asymmetric  
BSDF Property  
Repetitive Tile (RepTile) Surfaces    
3D Textures for RepTile    
Temperature Distributions    
Birefringence    
Wire Grid Polarizers    
Fluorescence    
Sources
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
Ray Grids
Surface Sources
Image Sources
Primitive Solids
User Defined Shapes
Blackbody/Graybody
Irradiance
Asymmetric Sources
Source Files
Bit Map Source Module
Raytrace
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
Ray Splitting
Analysis Mode
Simulation Mode
Multiple Exit Surfaces (Simulation Mode)
Refraction
Wavelengths
Importance Sampling  
Stratified Importance Sampling  
Reverse Raytrace  
Voxelization of Object Space - enhance speed vs. memory consumption
Analysis
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
Irradiance Maps
Candela Plots (Intensity)
Flux Reports
3D Irradiance Maps
File Output
Ray Sorting
Path Sort Table
Analysis Toolkit (Spectral, Road Luminance, Beam Illuminance, RCG, LCS, and DHI Analysis, & more)
Lighting Toolkit (Specifications: ECE, SAE, FMVSS, StVZO, ABYC, User Defined)
Irradiance/Illuminance Viewer
Display Selected Rays (Ensquared Flux)
Display Selected Paths (Ray Display, Irradiance Map)
CIE (xy), CIE (u’ν’), RGB
Luminance/Radiance
Polarization Maps  
Volume Flux  
TracePro Applications
  TracePro LC TracePro Standard TracePro Expert
Arc Lamps
Lightpipes
Ghost Analysis
Narcissus Analysis
LED Systems
Laser Diode Systems
IR Imaging
IR Detection Systems
Lithography
Medical Applications
Conventional Optics
Fiber Optic Design
Unusual Optics and Lenslet Arrays
Beam Splitter and Prism Systems
Illumination and Display Systems
Projection Systems
Life Sciences
LCD Projection
Stray Light Analysis