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OptiTwin Beta

Your optical system, alive inside the CAD model

OptiTwin keeps beam envelopes, ray paths and performance metrics live inside the mechanical assembly. Move a bracket and the optical consequence appears immediately – no re-export, no separate optical review cycle.

Design-partner programme open · limited places

Assembly · beam paths in CAD
Beam paths and a detector analysis inside a CAD assembly

Designed and traced in 3DOptix, delivered and displayed in CAD

The problem

Optics and mechanics fail at the handover, not in the design

Most opto-mechanical defects are found on the bench, weeks after the mechanical design was frozen. The optical model and the CAD model simply stopped agreeing with each other somewhere along the way.

Without OptiTwin
Optical model and CAD assembly drift apart
Clipping and vignetting found during assembly
Tolerance studies re-run by hand, rarely
Late design changes cost hardware iterations
With OptiTwin
One model – optics live in the assembly
Beam envelopes checked against every part
Tolerance and thermal studies on demand
Optical consequence visible while it is cheap
Capabilities

Validation that runs with the assembly

Live optical–CAD sync

Optical elements are bound to mechanical parts. Move, rotate or replace a part and the trace follows it.

Beam envelopes in context

See the real light cone against brackets, baffles and housings – clipping and vignetting become geometry problems you can see.

Tolerance analysis

Perturb positions, tilts and part dimensions within their tolerance bands and see the performance distribution that results.

Environmental effects

Thermal expansion, mounting stress and vibration – track focus shift and boresight against the operating envelope.

Stray light in the housing

Non-sequential tracing over real mechanical surfaces finds the bracket edge that puts a ghost on your detector.

Foundation for AI-first opto-mech

A machine-readable link between optical intent and mechanical form – the substrate agents need to iterate on designs.

Who it is for

Teams shipping optical hardware

Opto-mechanical engineers

Own the packaging without waiting on an optical designer to confirm every bracket revision.

Defence & aerospace primes

Environmental and tolerance evidence for qualification, with on-premise deployment for classified programmes.

Instrument manufacturers

Keep a validated digital twin of every product variant, and qualify a change before cutting metal.

OptiTwin is in beta – we are picking design partners now

Bring us an assembly you are worried about. We will model it with you and show what the optical twin reveals.

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Available on January 30th, 2023