Lighting

Precision Lighting Simulation for Every Application

TracePro is known for its versatility, enabling designers to model light propagation accurately across a wide range of applications. Whether it's illumination systems, imaging systems, or specialised lighting designs, TracePro provides designers with precise control over every aspect of light behaviour within a model. These models can be created from scratch within TracePro or imported from a CAD program, allowing for seamless integration into the existing design workflows.

TracePro's powerful ray-tracing algorithms simulate how light interacts with various materials and surfaces, accounting for absorption, specular reflection, transmission, fluorescence, and scattering of light rays. This helps designers fine-tune their systems with confidence that the final product will meet performance goals.

Lighting designers rely on TracePro to analyse every aspect of light behaviour within their systems. Whether you're working on architectural lighting, automotive headlamps, or entertainment lighting, TracePro allows for detailed analysis across key metrics:

• Light distribution analysis: TracePro provides insight into the distribution of light within an illumination or imaging system, helping designers achieve uniform lighting in various applications.
• Lumen calculations: TracePro tracks the amount of light exiting, absorbed, and incident on components, ensuring optimal light utilisation throughout the design.
• Candela distributions: Detailed candela plots help visualise how light is distributed spatially, aiding in the design of effective lighting products.
• Illuminance mapping: Designers can map out how much light is falling on a surface, enabling precise adjustments for brightness and energy efficiency.
• Optical efficiency analysis: Ensure that light is used efficiently by analysing metrics like luminance (brightness) and radiance (emitted power).
• Photorealistic rendering: Visualise the lit appearance of your design with high-quality renderings, providing insight into how the final product will look in real-world conditions.
• Fluorescence effects of phosphors: Understand how phosphors and other materials impact the colour and intensity of light, an essential feature for applications such as LED lighting.

By simulating these properties, lighting designers can avoid costly physical prototypes, reducing the time and expense required to bring products to market.

Confidence in Real-World Performance

TracePro provides lighting system designers with the confidence that their simulated models will closely predict real-world performance. The software's advanced simulation capabilities allow users to optimise their designs, making adjustments that lead to significant improvements in energy efficiency, cost savings, and overall lighting quality. This level of precision ensures that the final product performs as intended, whether it's a consumer LED product or a highly specialised automotive lighting system.

TracePro's wide range of applications makes it an invaluable tool for designing various lighting products. Its ability to accurately simulate light behaviour ensures that designers can meet performance targets while optimising for cost and manufacturability. Some of the key areas where TracePro excels include:

• LEDs: From consumer electronics to large-scale architectural installations, TracePro helps designers create efficient and aesthetically pleasing LED lighting solutions.
• Lamps: TracePro enables designers to optimise traditional and modern lamp designs for both energy efficiency and aesthetic appeal.
• Luminaires and Louvers: Whether for architectural or commercial purposes, TracePro helps designers create luminaires that meet strict lighting performance standards.
• Transportation signs and emergency lighting: Safety-critical systems rely on TracePro to ensure optimal visibility and reliability in all conditions.
• Daylighting: Architects and lighting designers can simulate natural light behaviour within buildings, optimising designs for energy efficiency and comfort.
• Architectural lighting design: From residential to commercial projects, TracePro allows designers to achieve the perfect balance between aesthetics and performance.
• Display lighting: Retail and signage applications demand consistent brightness and vivid colour; TracePro helps ensure uniform illumination for high-impact displays.
• Consumer products: TracePro can model the optical behaviour of light in various consumer devices, ensuring consistent performance and appearance.
• Automotive lighting: Automotive manufacturers use TracePro to design headlights, taillights, and interior lighting systems with a focus on energy efficiency and safety.
• Avionics lighting: For aircraft interiors and control systems, TracePro ensures uniform, reliable lighting across all areas.
• Medical lighting: In healthcare, precision lighting is essential for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. TracePro helps designers meet strict performance standards.
• Entertainment lighting: Whether for stage lighting or immersive display systems, TracePro supports the creation of innovative lighting systems for entertainment applications.

Meeting Aesthetic and Performance Goals

One of the key challenges in lighting system design is balancing functional performance with aesthetic goals. Lighting systems must not only meet brightness and distribution requirements but also provide a visually appealing lit and unlit appearance. With TracePro's photorealistic rendering capabilities, designers can visualise how their lighting designs will look before physical prototypes are created, ensuring that the end result meets both aesthetic and performance standards.

Lighting Design with Fewer Prototypes

Using TracePro's comprehensive suite of lighting simulation tools, designers can streamline the development process by reducing the number of physical prototypes needed. This leads to faster time-to-market, lower costs, and improved product performance. The software empowers lighting system designers to bring their concepts to life with greater precision and efficiency.

For more information on how TracePro can enhance your lighting design projects, explore our product information or contact our support team for assistance.