Did you know TracePro features an Interactive Optimizer? The Interactive Optimizer allows you to automatically optimize your designs to meet a user defined goal or goals. The Interactive Optimizer can be used to optimize lenses, reflectors, light guides and more. The Interactive Optimizer can optimize a single optical element, or a system with multiple optical elements. It can also be used to optimize the position and rotation of optical elements and sources in existing TracePro models. The Interactive Optimizer also has a Monte Carlo tolerancing feature that can be used to perform a tolerance analysis on your designs.
The available surface types in the Interactive Optimizer include symmetric and asymmetric profiles, free BSplines, biconics, XY polynomials, spline and conic reflectors, and radial and slice-type freeform surfaces. 2D and 3D paths are also available.
These surfaces and profiles can be easily converted to solid objects using rotation, extrusion, and sweeping along a 2D or 3D path. Lens objects can also be made with different profiles on each side of the lens. This is a powerful option when designing freeform lenses for illumination applications.
Optimization operands include flux on a target surface, irradiance values and irradiance profiles, intensity values and intensity profiles, CIE color coordinates, uniformity, spot size, beam width, luminance, and more.
The Interactive Optimizer features three different optimization options, the Downhill Simplex Method, Variable Scan, and Tolerance Analysis.
The Interactive Optimizer is available in the Standard and Expert editions of TracePro.
The Interactive Optimizer in TracePro gives you the ability to quickly and easily optimize an optical system to meet a wide range of design goals.