1. New Features and Enhancements

This section describes the new features and enhancements introduced in Speos for Creo Parametric 2024 R2 release.

General

  • Better management of Speos for Creo Parametric to avoid incompatibilities with installations using Open SSL programs.

Materials

  • New Surface State Plugin feature available:

    The Surface State Plugin feature allows you to define custom models that characterize specific optical properties, for instance specific diffusion models, coatings, etc.

    Those models need to be coded in a dedicated plug-in dll, *.sop file, that can be used when defining:

    • Surface optical properties of parts' optical properties

    • Face optical properties

    • Optical properties of texture mapping feature

    In addition, Lumerical Sub-Wavelength Model (LSWM) can be used with the corresponding *.json file.

Sources

  • Ray File Source: New Pattern option available.

    Arrays of LEDs are the new standard in lighting systems. These were usually achieved by duplicating the source multiple times with several manual operations affecting Speos Tree visibility.

    The Pattern option allows you to create and orientate multiple instances of a same Ray File Source into a single feature, so that you do not have to create the same source multiple times in Speos for Creo Parametric and overload the Speos tree and so its readability.

Components

  • Speos Light Box:

    Speos Light Box is a data exchange component used to define sources and geometries.

    Even though Speos Light Box is encrypted, the component offers the possibility to fully secure intellectual property by black-boxing its content:

    • No detail about sources and geometries inside

    • Only the bounding box of the complete system is displayed in the 3D view

    • Ray tracing does not expose the impacts happening inside the Speos Light Box, without changing the optical path.

    Conventional ray tracing with a Speos Light Box

    Ray tracing with a Speos Light Box having Black box enabled

Sensor

  • The Optical Library now provides you with a FLIR Thermal Camera package containing five complete sets of FLIR Thermal Camera, a Thermal Camera Wrapper, and a Thermal Camera Editor. Thanks to this full new workflow you can generate thermal maps out of Speos Irradiance maps, and analyze them using Virtual Photometric Lab.

Simulation

  • In case of a Direct Simulation, the saturation effect limitation on pixels which could have led to incorrect results has been lifted.

  • Performance improvement on the initialization of simulations containing a SOP assigned to a lot of faces.

  • Default Smart Engine value has been set to 15 (previous value was 11) when setting the Ray tracer precision to Double.

  • Better management of Ray tracer precision: now when the Geometrical Distance Tolerance is too small to be handled by the Single Ray tracer precision, Speos for Creo Parametric automatically switches the Ray tracer precision to Double to prevent from generating unexpected result with high error rate.

Results

  • The HTML Simulation Report generated after a GPU Direct or Inverse Simulation now provides GPU simulation result and data and has been aligned with the HTML Simulation Report generated with a CPU Simulation.

Speos Core Simulation Compatibility

To launch a Speos for Creo Parametric simulation using the GPU resources, you must run it through Speos Core.

  • Camera Sensor: Simulations using a Camera Sensor based on a *.OPTDistortion Binary file are now compatible with GPU Simulation.

  • Better support of coated files during GPU simulations when the spectrum is in the non-visible (infrared, ultraviolet).

Documentation

  • The documentation regarding the Meshing has been revamped to provide more relevant and useful information.

  • The documentation regarding the Integration Angle has been revamped to provide more relevant and useful information.