Issue link: https://resources.randsim.com/i/1492189
OVERVIEW Ansys Speos continues to push the innovation envelope to deliver accurate, high performance simulation capabilities for optics designers. The 2023 R1 release delivers powerful capabilities that speed time to result, improve simulation accuracy, and expand interoperability with other Ansys products. Productivity Enhancements • Texture Mapping Preview provides ease of use for texture application and elevates the use of multilayered materials. Textures in Speos allow improved material realism for visualization use cases and provide a powerful way to stack and blend optical properties (like serigraphy, brushed metals, composite, grating). Creating and applying textured properties previously required expert skills since any setting could be checked only through simulation. With the new Texture Mapping Preview Tool, texture is now displayed directly on ASP geometry allowing the size and orientation to be seen. This display automatically updates while editing texture definition to show the impact of any modification and the texture or normal map can remain displayed for ease of setting multiple textures or simply to identify the applied material at a glance. • Virtual Lighting Animation Tool (Beta) helps post processing simulation results by defining timelines for each source's power ratio and directly producing animation videos out of them. As automotive lighting functions, such as turn indicators, are more and more animated, TIER-1 suppliers can now provide videos highlighting the temporal variation of the sources' power using this tool. • Optical Surface/Optical Lens Defined by Excel makes it easy to control each facet's parameter using a spreadsheet providing more flexibility and efficiency. Users can now use formulas to smoothly vary a parameter along the surface, use a spreadsheet as a template for other design, handle one file rather than multiple groups and easily optimize thousands of patterns. Speos GPU Acceleration • Speos 2023 R1 Release marks the end of beta for Speos GPU. The Speos GPU Solver is now an officially supported solver! Live Preview and GPU-Compute are release features now and users no longer need to enable beta to benefit from GPU. Users will also benefit from GPU solver improvements in this release including Human Eye Sensor support on GPU, Retro-reflective BSDF support and Multi-Sensor Support for Direct Simulation. Ansys Integration • Ansys Cloud integration enhancements provide support for flexible queues to easily adjust the number of cores available for Speos simulation, automatic download of results when Ansys Cloud Simulation is complete and new HBv3 queues for faster simulation - thanks to 960 available cores, simulation is up to 400x faster than a 16-core workstation. • Workbench launcher with Speos environment integration provides a new shortcut to launch Workbench with Speos environment. Users can now drive parameters of scripts creating Speos features allowing easer Design of Experiment for advanced design optimization. Optics Products 2023 R1 Update