Design and analyze imaging and illumination systems with CAD interoperability

ASAP® is powered by the ASAP non-sequential ray-tracing engine — known throughout the optics industry for its accuracy and efficiency. Rays can encounter surfaces in any order and any number of times, with automatic ray splitting. Optimized for speed, ASAP will trace millions of rays in minutes.

The standard edition of ASAP includes a license of the SolidWorks® Parts Only 3D Modeling Engine — an intuitive 3D-design environment optimized for use with ASAP. Write ASAP geometry files from within SolidWorks, import XML files, or use BRO's proprietary smartIGES™ system to import system models from any CAD package while maintaining fast, efficient ray trace speed.

Use ASAP to model complex imaging systems, illumination systems, and light-concentrating devices. Create highly accurate source models using source images, point sources, ray grids, and fans. Model incandescent bulbs, LEDs, CCFLs, and HID arc lamps, or import from the BRO Light Source Library. Perform the analyses necessary to validate your designs without experimental prototyping.

ASAP includes a distributed-processing capability allowing you to complete big design jobs in a fraction of the time required by other tools — spawn up to 5 additional ASAP sessions on your Local Area Network (LAN), without leaving your desk.

Key ASAP Features

• Build system models requiring large numbers of objects and sources
• Model optical and mechanical system components
• Model imaging systems, illumination systems, and light-concentrating devices
• Model visible, ultraviolet, and infrared radiation in optical systems
• Model surface (BRDF) and volume scatter (pre-defined or custom)
• Model radiometry of complex systems, including radiance
• NEW Visualize, analyze, and monitor light distributions using conformal radiometry
• Render system geometry, raytraces, and light sources
• Perform numerical and graphical CIE/Chromaticity analyses
• Optimize optical systems with the ASAP Optimization interface
• NEW Save, review, and resume optimizations in progress with ASAP .osf files
• Tolerance optical systems in the ASAP Builder interface or scripts
• Import measured source data such as Radiant Sources™
• NEW Import data from images using the BRO Digitizer™
• Use the SolidWorks Parts Only 3D Modeling Engine (license included)
• Write ASAP-specific GTX files from within SolidWorks
• Assign object and layer names in SolidWorks
• Write ASAP-specific IGES files from within Rhinoceros®
• Import/Export IGES files using the ASAP smartIGES translator
• Import geometry and optical properties using the XML file format
• Integrate scripts in Python, VBscript, Jscript, and other languages
• Use pre-defined LED, CCFL, incandescent, and arc sources
• Drag-and-drop sources, lenses, glasses, scatter models, and coatings
• Begin your simulation with one of 600+ example files
• NEW Perform distributed processing tasks using the enhanced REMOTE
• Create your own custom workspace within ASAP

Pricing and Platform Information

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