RayViz™ is Lambda Research Corporation’s Add-In for Solidworks® for visualizing light rays and ray paths.RayViz™ is fully integrated in Solidworks® and allows Solidworks® users to work in a familiar environment while giving them the added capability of assigning optical properties and raytracing directly in Solidworks®.
RayViz™ gives Solidworks® users the ability to apply optical properties from the TracePro® property database directly in Solidworks®. These properties are then saved as part of the Solidworks® model. In addition to applying optical properties, users can define light sources and run raytraces in Solidworks® to see the rays and ray paths. This can be very helpful in the early stages of product design for tasks such as beam path verification, checking for vignetting by mechanical structures, looking for light escaping from bends in light guides, and many other applications. RayViz™ includes catalogs of LED sources as well as sources with Gaussian and Lambertian beam widths of different values.
The biggest benefit of RayViz™ is that it allows the user to easily harness to power and capabilities of both Solidworks® and TracePro®. RayViz™ allows users to save the Solidworks® model in a TracePro® file format. This file can then be opened in TracePro® for a full optical analysis. Since the optical properties and sources are defined in Solidworks® and saved as part of the Solidworks® file, the user just needs to open the file in TracePro® and run the raytrace. If changes are made to the Solidworks® model, there is an Update from RayViz™ option in TracePro® that will update the model in TracePro®.
RayViz™ is developed by Lambda Research Corporation from Westford (MA,USA), partner of OxyTech, but also in cooperation with NASA for the study of the backlit panels of orbital stations.
RayViz™ Licenses
There are two licenses of RayViz™:
- Single Computer License
- Floating Network License
that can be used:
- through a USB dongle USB (USB)
- through an activation code (Soft)
Look at the presentation of RayViz™
Look at the demo of RayViz™
Further information about RayViz™
Support Tools
Lambda provides a series of tools and documents (tutorials, examples, videos, etc.) in the Support section.
Access RayViz™ Section
Manual
Download RayViz™ Manual
Download
Download RayViz™
Look at the presentation of TracePro®, RayViz and Oslo
Look at the video Start to Finish Optical Design Using OSLO, RayViz, and TracePro