Daylighting and Natural Light Optimization

Optimizing the use of natural light allows you to reduce your building’s energy consumption while increasing the sense of well being for the building’s users.

« OPTIS light simulation solutions enable you to optimize a building’s use of natural light before it even exists.”

Accurately simulate your 3D building, incorporating the sun as your light source and taking into account the building’s location on the earth, orientation and surrounding structures.

Integration in CATIA V5 means you can use your existing CAD files directly within our OPTIS solution.

Using OPTIS CAD-integrated simulation solutions, predict the amount and intensity of natural light entering the building, take into account time of day, date and test your building under various weather conditions.
Optimize your use of natural lighting by virtually trying out different materials, colors, surface qualities on the outside and inside of your building, all within the OPTIS software using its extensive and constantly growing online libraries.

Use OPTIS solutions to optimize the positioning and specification of light pipes, roof windows and external reflectors.

As well as obtaining quantitative results for any point on your building, OPTIS realistic rendering capabilities let you actually visualize your building’s interaction with natural light, colors, and materials and share these visualizations with your customers way before the building even exists.

Take into account and analyze the thermal impact of using natural daylight and use it to the building’s advantage, for heating or solar energy.

Manipulate multiple light sources, both natural and artificial, to obtain the optimum combination of daylighting and artificial lighting, in order to meet light level requirements for specific rooms and areas.

You can even imagine turning the façade of your building into a giant solar panel.

GE GLOBAL RESEARCH are using the OPTISWORKS software by OPTIS to optimize solar cells embedded in facades of buildings - a huge potential of surface for green energy generation.

OPTISWORKS was the ideal solution being integrated in our existing SolidWorks CAD program. Its performance, added to its unique capability to simulate fluorescence, made our choice even easier.

Thanks to OPTISWORKS, GE GLOBAL RESEARCH optimize both the energy-capturing
properties of the façade and its aesthetic integration into the building and environment.

OPTIS has adopted the International Color Consortium (ICC) standards, and applied them to its range of SPEOS Technology-based software.

The SPEOS technology is integrated in 3 of the world’s most widely used CAD software : SOLIDWORKS^® and CATIA V5^® by Dassault Systèmes, and Pro/ENGINEER^® by PTC.
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Related links :
> Photometry
> Visual Ergonomics
> Libraries

Stand-Alone Software
> SPEOS
> OptisWorks Studio

CAD-Integrated Software
> SPEOS CAA V5 Based
> SPEOS for Pro/ENGINEER
> OptisWorks (SolidWorks)