for EIKONAL.WORKS Workbench

At EIKONAL.WORKS, We believe that user feedback - especially negative prompts are worth gold. We closely collaborate with our customers in order to rapidly respond to user needs.

Roadmap
Initial release

This was the first functional release, where it was already possible to completels design a refractive PMMA lens for an LED in a simple housing.

Fully featured CAD UI
Integration of Opencascade CAD engine
Able to load STEP, IGES & BREP files and create various primitives
Boolean operations on CAD meshes
Edit functionality: Position, Rotation, Alignment, Pattern features
Create Rayfan type (deterministic) sources
Create simple surface sources (disk, rectangle), with various distributions
Create RAY file sources by loading TM25 Ray files - fully compliant
Create Far Field Detector, save result in IES/EULUMDAT/TM15 formats
Create Illuminance/Irradiance Detector on flat faces
Basic surface types: Smooth Optical, Simple Mirror, Lambertian/Gaussian Scatter, Absorber
Basic material library: generic PMMA & PC, PlexiGlass 8N
Fully functional raytracing engine using NanoRT library (CPU only) or Vulkan hybrid (Ray-triangle intersection on GPU, interaction on every CPU core)
Rays support Stokes + Direction vectors
Surface interaction, source ray generator, material properties - all extendible with DLL
All functionality is accessible through a macro language
Sep 2025

0.1.1.0

Major functionality upgrade

Improving usability for mass adaptation for lighting & illuminant engineering

Source Library with 8 LED sources fully defined
Material Library with 6 common materials
BRDF/BTDF/BSDF surface types, supporting SSDD, LightTools and Zemax formats
Surface Library with 17 commercial surfaces
Fully supported LightTools, ASAP and Zemax Ray file sources
Solidworks link - automatically updating linked mesh when saved in Solidworks
Colorimetry calculations - CRI, CQS, TM-30, COI, Academy SSI
UI on 8 languages
Dec 2025

0.1.3.0

Luminance Detectors

Implementing luminance detector with hybrid (reverse + forward) raytracing

Photometric and Radiometric detectors
Human vision rendering correction with veiling luminance of glare sources
Implement material volumetric scattering
Q1 2026
Major CAD integration release

Full support for major CAD interoperability

Rhino, Fusion, Onshape & FreeCAD link
Q2 2026
Freeform surface optimization

Release of first plugin for EIKONAL.WORKS Workbench. Allows the automatic optimization of a freeform surface to match a defined luminous intensity distribution or irradiance pattern

Q3 2026
Major functionality upgrade

In response to user feedback and feature requests

Non-flat surface sources
Non-flat Illuminance/Irradiance detectors
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Q4 2026
Imaging optical systems

Implementing support of optical surfaces with accelerated RT for hybrid imaging and stray light analysis

Non-tesselated optical surfaces
Zemax interoperability
OSLO interoperability
Q1 2027