Altair Case Studies Automotive Lighting Enhances Rear Lamp Design and Rendering with solidThinking Evolve

	Automotive Lighting Enhances Rear Lamp Design and Rendering with solidThinking Evolve Altair

Automotive Lighting Enhances Rear Lamp Design and Rendering with solidThinking Evolve

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Sensors - Optical Sensors
Applicable Industries	Automotive Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Smart Lighting Vehicle-to-Infrastructure
Challenge	Automotive Lighting, a global leader in exterior automotive lighting, faced a challenge in delivering brand-specific styling and rendering of rear lamps. The rear lamps are not only crucial safety components but also serve as strong brand indicators, incorporating important styling elements that define the appearance and identity of a particular vehicle model. The company needed to ensure these safety and brand elements received precise attention to detail. The complexity of the components, including metallic reflectors, light bulb or LED sources, embossed and transparent elements such as polycarbonate lenses, made the rendering process challenging. Furthermore, the rendering process had to consider the dual usage of automotive lamps, which are switched off during the day and switched on during the night. Read More
About Customer	Automotive Lighting is a leading company in the research, development, production, and sale of a complete range of technologies for front and rear lighting, fog lights, headlamp cleaning systems, leveling systems, electronic components, and central high mounted stop lamps. Formed in 1999 from a joint venture that merged the lighting technology divisions of Robert Bosch GmbH and Magneti Marelli Spa (Fiat Group), the company has grown to be a global leader in exterior automotive lighting. Today, it produces more than 66.4 million pieces per year, including headlights, rear lamps, and other lighting components, with over 10,000 employees, nearly 1,000 of whom are involved in R&D. Read More
Solution	Automotive Lighting adopted solidThinking Evolve’s free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering to address these challenges. The software was used in three phases of the product development cycle: ideation, development, and visualization. In the product concept phase, Evolve’s free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering functionalities allowed for quick styling of rear lamps. The software provided the ability to reliably exchange data with engineering software such as Catia V5, enabling the creation and pinpointing of new style solutions. The best-in-class ConstructionTree history feature of Evolve saved time when making changes to the design. Additionally, solidThinking Evolve’s rendering engine acted as a validation, analysis, and visualization tool, helping to accurately render the complex aspects of the automotive lamps. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Sensors - Optical Sensors

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Equipment & Machinery

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Smart Lighting

Vehicle-to-Infrastructure

Challenge

Automotive Lighting, a global leader in exterior automotive lighting, faced a challenge in delivering brand-specific styling and rendering of rear lamps. The rear lamps are not only crucial safety components but also serve as strong brand indicators, incorporating important styling elements that define the appearance and identity of a particular vehicle model. The company needed to ensure these safety and brand elements received precise attention to detail. The complexity of the components, including metallic reflectors, light bulb or LED sources, embossed and transparent elements such as polycarbonate lenses, made the rendering process challenging. Furthermore, the rendering process had to consider the dual usage of automotive lamps, which are switched off during the day and switched on during the night.

About Customer

Automotive Lighting is a leading company in the research, development, production, and sale of a complete range of technologies for front and rear lighting, fog lights, headlamp cleaning systems, leveling systems, electronic components, and central high mounted stop lamps. Formed in 1999 from a joint venture that merged the lighting technology divisions of Robert Bosch GmbH and Magneti Marelli Spa (Fiat Group), the company has grown to be a global leader in exterior automotive lighting. Today, it produces more than 66.4 million pieces per year, including headlights, rear lamps, and other lighting components, with over 10,000 employees, nearly 1,000 of whom are involved in R&D.

Solution

Automotive Lighting adopted solidThinking Evolve’s free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering to address these challenges. The software was used in three phases of the product development cycle: ideation, development, and visualization. In the product concept phase, Evolve’s free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering functionalities allowed for quick styling of rear lamps. The software provided the ability to reliably exchange data with engineering software such as Catia V5, enabling the creation and pinpointing of new style solutions. The best-in-class ConstructionTree history feature of Evolve saved time when making changes to the design. Additionally, solidThinking Evolve’s rendering engine acted as a validation, analysis, and visualization tool, helping to accurately render the complex aspects of the automotive lamps.

Impact #1	The use of solidThinking Evolve has significantly improved the product development process at Automotive Lighting. The software's free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering functionalities have enabled quick and flexible concept development, allowing the company to deliver brand-specific styling of rear lamps. The ability to exchange data with engineering CAD tools has streamlined the design process, while the ConstructionTree history feature has saved time when making changes to the design. Moreover, the rendering engine of Evolve has provided a realistic rendering of daytime and nighttime conditions, acting as a validation, analysis, and visualization tool. This has ensured that the rear lamps not only meet safety requirements but also effectively display the vehicle’s brand-specific styling.

Impact #1

The use of solidThinking Evolve has significantly improved the product development process at Automotive Lighting. The software's free-form modeling tools and integrated rendering functionalities have enabled quick and flexible concept development, allowing the company to deliver brand-specific styling of rear lamps. The ability to exchange data with engineering CAD tools has streamlined the design process, while the ConstructionTree history feature has saved time when making changes to the design. Moreover, the rendering engine of Evolve has provided a realistic rendering of daytime and nighttime conditions, acting as a validation, analysis, and visualization tool. This has ensured that the rear lamps not only meet safety requirements but also effectively display the vehicle’s brand-specific styling.

Benefit #1	Fast and flexible concept development for customers
Benefit #2	ConstructionTree history feature saves time
Benefit #3	Data exchange with engineering CAD tools

Benefit #1

Fast and flexible concept development for customers

Benefit #2

ConstructionTree history feature saves time

Benefit #3

Data exchange with engineering CAD tools

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Automotive Lighting Enhances Rear Lamp Design and Rendering with solidThinking Evolve

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