Advanced Systems Analysis Program
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| File:ASAP Screenshot.png ASAP 2006 on Windows XP | |
| Stable release | 2006 Version 1, Release 3
/ February 26, 2007 |
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| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Optical Design Software |
| License | Copyright(c) 1982-2006, Breault Research Organization, Inc. |
| Website | http://www.breault.com/software/software-overview.php |
ASAP The Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP®) is the industry standard in optical engineering software, and has been for over 20 years. The popularity of ASAP is due to the software's comprehensiveness and accuracy. ASAP has the functionality to solve the toughest problems for any industry using optics as an enabling technology. ASAP accurately predicts the real-world performance of automotive lighting, bio-optic systems, coherent systems, displays, imaging systems, lightpipes, luminaires, and medical devices.
The product of more than 20 years of continuous development, ASAP is able to simulate the physics of more optical systems than any other program available. ASAP unites geometrical and physical optics with full 3D models of optical and mechanical systems. Built-in graphical tools allow visualization of model geometry, ray-trace details, and results analysis. ASAP handles it all, including scattering, diffraction, reflection, refraction, absorption, polarization, and Gaussian beam propagation.
ASAP is now interoperable with many CAD programs. ASAP can be configured to open native CAA V5 CATIA® files from the program by Dassault Systemes, to write ASAP-specific GTX files from within SolidWorks®, the program by SolidWorks Corp., to write ASAP-specific IGES files from within Rhinoceros®, the program by McNeel & Associates, and to import IGES files from other CAD programs — numerous options for accurate, seamless geometry transitions into ASAP.
See also
- SolidWorks and SolidWorks Corporation - Has a formal partnership with Breault Research Organization
- Ray tracing - Method used by ASAP for simulation