Did you know TracePro lets you make your mistakes and correct them in a software environment, before you commit to hardware and physical prototypes?
Making physical prototypes can be expensive, not just in terms of money but also time. This type of development process usually involves an initial design and then a first prototype. This first prototype then needs to be tested and if it does not meet the specification, the reason needs to be understood, a new design developed, and then a second prototype will need to be built and tested. This process may take several iterations.
Some examples of mistakes could be putting an cold mirror in a location that it focuses the IR light back on the lamp, not taking into account reflections from a detector in an optical system, not enough baffling in a spectrometer to block scattered light from a mirror, or using a point source model for the light source rather than modeling the actual source.
Optical design and analysis software such as TracePro allows you to design, test, and refine the design in a virtual environment. In this process multiple designs can be evaluated in a short period of time, saving both development time and money.
TracePro allows you to make a 3D solid model or digital twin of the system in TracePro or import the model directly from a CAD program. You can then apply appropriate properties and define the relevant light sources. Ray traces can then be run and the results analyzed using the full suite of analysis tools available in TracePro. If the initial design does not meet specifications the CAD model can be updated, properties changed, and light sources modified if need be. This process can be repeated tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times in a short period of time and before any physical prototypes are produced.
TracePro also features optimization tools that can reduce this development time even further.
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TracePro lets you make your mistakes in a software environment, saving time and money in the design and development process.