What's new in Photopia?

We're always updating Photopia, adding features that we think are important and items that our customers have suggested. If you have something you'd like to see in Photopia, just let us know and we'll put it on our list.

December 2011 - Version 3.2.7

New Features: Simplified Display is now a property for arrays and groups, Copy In Place using Enter, expanded Revolved Surface Control, Warning for Expiring Licenses, removed Array Limits, added Refractor Scattering.

Fixes: Licensing stability in non-English versions of Windows, better licensing error detection, easier Client setup, corrected an issue with PODT lens scaling being saved.

September 2011 - Version 3.2.6

New Features: Percent Control Inside now property for each section, improved LibrarySync notifications, Ctrl+Z is now Undo (as well as Ctrl+U), proper localization of polar coordinates, new thumbnail icons for each window.

Fixes: Improved Optical Design View updates including aiming string and bulge, improved extended ASCII support, precision settings affecting raytrace, photometric report angle sets, InspectorPhotopia expansion including repairing permissions and time logging, improved project recovery, fixed network license issue during long raytraces, improved reflector linking based on precision.

May 2011 - Version 3.2.4

New Features: Parametric refractor lofting, Network licensing with check in/out.

April 2011 - Version 3.2

New Features: Lofting for Parametric Optical Design Tools, Network licensing with check in / out ability and LibrarySync, Windows 7 compliance

July 2010 - Version 3.1.5

New Features: Support for Solids from AutoCAD files, multiple lamps are listed in the output IES file, simplified daylight components, mesh objects respect SurfTab1

Fixes: refractor orientation calculation, unnamed layers causing import issues, switching from steeped to smooth stability, saving to network locations is more robust

April 2010 - Version 3.1.4

New Features:Absolute photometry report type, support for AutoCAD 2010 files, IES files contain all lamp types in a project, can select multiple illuminance planes to view at once

Fixes:fixed some errors with Regional settings, Windows 7, and AutoCAD 2010 support, fixed some oddities in parametric refractor profile display and aiming

January 2010 - Version 3.1.1

New Features:Parametric Refractor Design Tools object are now exported to DWG/DXF files

Fixes:full plane polar plot colors, symmetric refractor surface orientation, mirrored or arrayed PODT objects can be exported

January 2010 - Version 3.1

New Features:Parametric Refractor Design Tools, BUG Ratings from TM-15-07 Addendum A, Lamp and Ballast/Driver Watts are now editable

Fixes:full plane polar plots are now more conventional,

September 2009 - Version 3.0.6

New Features:automatic trimming of PODT reflectors now works with symmetric extruded reflectors

Fixes:corrected issues with Luminaire Import Wizard that affected STL file imports as well as resulted in inactive lamps, floodlight report now shows correct beam and field angles when peak intensity is not on the X or Y axis, Type B photometric angles are now limited to the regions defined by the IESNA documentation, corrected issued with exporting a PODT reflector profile

July 2009 - Version 3.0.5

New Features:LED collimator design tutorial, parametric half-arcs, PODT automatically trims, physical dimensions added to EULUMDAT files, added more horizontal angles to the Luminaire Luminance Table

Fixes:improved network license reliability while raytracing and saving, better handling of corrupt photometry files and corrupt geometry, corrected text display in LCS plot, lamp import progress bar now estimates progress correctly, now keeps settings during a re-installation, SCALE command de-selects after done, aiming string in Reflector Design View, added cursor coordinate readouts, corrected display of illuminance plane SAILS, corrected illuminance plane coordinate display and rounding

April 2009 - Version 3.0.4

New Features:IES File format is now LM-63-2002, Photometric file landing page

Fixes:Alternate decimal delimiters in command line, Ray emanation for CFL lamps

March 2009 - Version 3.0.3

New Features:IES File Headers can be changed under Settings, Link to Lamps.xls in Help menu, Refractor error rays now displayed on unique layer,

Fixes:International STL Issues, Cplane Grid display,

December 2008 - Version 3.0.2

October 2008 - Version 3.0

We're happy to release Photopia v3.0, which contains numerous improvements to the CAD system, the design tools, and the raytrace process, in addition to an even larger lamp and material library. Here's a list of the major new features of Photopia v3.0. Photopia v3.0 has been mailed to customers who have a current Annual Design and Upgrade Package (ADUP). If your ADUP has expired and you would like to receive the upgrade to Version 3.0, you will need to renew your ADUP.

January 2008 - Beam Angles

We added automatic calculation of beam angle to the indoor photometric report, which should make your life a little easier when you're trying to achieve a specific beam angle.