Photopia™ Releases - 2021 to 2015

photopia 2021


My Photopia webpage

photopia | for Rhino

The Next Generation of Photopia is inside Rhinoceros. Photopia users will have access to a full featured modern CAD system, allowing quicker optical designs and better interchange with Inventor, Creo Parametric, SolidEdge, Catia and other CAD systems.

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New Plot Options in SOLIDWORKS and Rhino

Photopia for SOLIDWORKS and Rhino can now display grayscale, true color and false color plots, including legends, on both flat and curved surfaces. Plots can be of traditional metrics like illuminance, but also irradiance and many other custom options, including Delta u'v', allowing you to visualize the numeric color difference.

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My Photopia webpage


Fluence Spheres

Fluence Spheres

Smooth Lenses | Equation Driven Lenses

Within Solidworks you can now define smooth spherical lenses by their equation properties. The raytrace then uses this high resolution lens geometry to ensure that rays are traced along their true paths, avoiding the approximation with a meshed model of the lens.

One application of this tool is to create a projection image of your luminaire to analyze LED blending and also compute luminance across your luminaire.

Smooth Lens Tutorial

Complete Luminance

photopia 2020.1


My Photopia webpage

My Photopia | Online Licensing

With our new online licensing, there are no more Site Codes and Authorization Keys, waiting for emails, or only being able to use one computer. My Photopia is your new online licensing system. With your email address and password you can download the latest release and install on any computer and be up and running in a matter of minutes, anytime of the day or night.

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UVC Disinfection | New Lamps, Materials and Fluence Tutorial

UVC disinfection is a popular topic and so we've made many library additions to Photopia 2020.1 for use in that area, including 20 UVC light sources and 7 UV specific materials. We've also created a tutorial that shows you how to compute Fluence in a Photopia project. Fluence is used to quantify the energy incident on particles in a volume and a common metric for UV disinfection.

Complete Lamp Library List

Complete Material Library List

Fluence Tutorial

Fluence Spheres


Color Rendering

More Color Materials

We've added 113 reflective materials that have full spectral data. This complements the wide range of color filter transmissive materials we also have in the Library. These materials are the 99 samples from the IES TM-30 CES and the 14 samples from the CIE 13.2 1974 CRI sample set. When combined with a full spectral lamp model, you can predict the color shift of light reflective off these materials.

photopia 2020


Solidworks 3D IP Tooth Light

Blue LED fiber optic illuminating a 3D model of a tooth

3D Illuminance Planes

Now in Photopia for Solidworks illuminance planes are no longer limited to planar rectangles. You can create illuminance planes on any surface, allowing you greater flexibility in assessing your optical design.

Solidworks 3D Surface Illuminance on Airplane Wing

Leading edge of airplane wing showing illuminance on surface

photopia 2019


Type A and B Photometry

Type A and B Photometry

Photopia for Solidworks and photopia™ | reports™ can now generate and open Type A and B photometric files, commonly used for floodlighting, aerospace, automotive, marine and signal lighting. There are new reports for these photometry types, including axial intensity plots, iso-candela plots, a floodlight summary, and standard automotive, aerospace, marine and floodlight reports types.

photopia 2018


dynamic stats

Raytrace Helper window

Raytrace Helper

In Photopia (and coming soon to SOLIDWORKS), the new Raytrace Helper window identifies common setup mistakes and suggests solutions.

✔ Uplight and Downlight

✔ Horizontal symmetry

✔ Number of reactions

✔ Geometry issues


LDT Support and UGR tables

photopia™ | reports™ can now open LDT files and also generate UGR tables.

UGR table

UGR table in photopia™ | reports™


64bit Batch Raytrace

Photopia can now make use of a new 64-bit batch raytracer when memory becomes an issue. This will help run your largest simulations.

photopia 2017


Jungbecker cdp 15

example of anisotropic transmissive material

Anisotropic Transmissive Materials

Transmissive materials with anisotropic behavior can now be measured and used in simulations thanks to our new high resolution BSDF measurement device.

✔ Bright View Batwing diffusers

✔ Bright View Elliptical diffusers

✔ Jungbecker CDP, CDP 15

✔ Jungbecker LDP, DDP


New Plots

Photopia 2017 contains new highly configurable polar plots.

✔ Full style control

✔ Full control of data plotted

✔ Vector based, export for marketing

✔ Export at high resolution for web

candela plots

example of new candela plots


Photopia for SOLIDWORKS Toolbar

Solidworks Interface in Chinese

Languages

Photopia for SOLIDWORKS 2017 supports your local language inside of SOLIDWORKS. We currently have translations for:

✔ German

✔ Simplified and Traditional Chinese

✔ Japanese

✔ French

✔ Brazilian Portuguese

photopia 2015


Color Filters

Materials with spectral reflectance and transmittance can be modeled in Photopia 2015. This enables you to raytrace color filters and colored reflective materials.

✔ color gels

✔ painted reflectors

✔ dichroic glass

✔ cold and hot mirrors

color filters

example of color filters being illuminated with a white laser


color conversion

example of a remote phosphor material

Color Conversion

Materials that absorb light at one wavelength and emit at another wavelength can be modeled in Photopia 2015.

✔ remote phosphors

✔ quantum dots

✔ any custom material


Dispersion

Photopia 2015 will trace refraction with varying index and extinction per wavelength, modeling the behavior of dispersion, which can lead to color separation in your optic.

✔ beam color separation

✔ variable extinction

Diamond Dispersion

example of a diamond illuminated with a white laser


photopia spectrum

Energy Units

Photopia 2015 allows you to run simulations with lumens, radiant watts, μmol photons/sec or μmol photons/sec from 400-700nm (PAR), getting you directly the output statistics you need in your units of choice.

✔ lumens for lighting

✔ Radiant Watts for UV and IR and wideband

✔ μmol photons and PAR for horticulture