Huge companies in the Silicon Valley started their business in a small garage, with one to three people. Then their innovative products made them successful companies. It is quite the same story for our partner Optis. 21 years ago, Jacques DELACOUR launched Optis in a container and now the company has 65 employees with offices in North America, Germany and Japan.

Jacques DELACOUR has been awarded the prestigious distinction of Chevalier de L’Ordre National du Mérite, the National Order of Merit, awarding his success as CEO.

The medal was presented to DELACOUR by Bernard CHARLÈS, on behalf of the French President.The National Order of Merit is the second highest award accorded to civilians by the French Republic, behind the Legion of Honour.

Leadership sharing

J. Delacour, is also invested in several organization both locally in the Var region (Management progress association, Toulon Var Technologies) and nationaly (Richelieu comity, OSEO Excellence)

Optis is now working for huge companies like Airbus, Audi, Jaguar, Thales, Bombardier, ... doing light simulation based on physics, integrated into PLM Process for ergonomics and safety.



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At the heart of the 48th Paris Airshow at Le Bourget.

Despite the rain, we had some great in flight demo yesterday, including the latest Falcon 7X, the A380, the Antonov AN148 and, on the military side, the Rafale and F-16.
On the ground, you can enjoy a close look at the Boeing B777F from Air France, the Airbus A380 and A321, the Dassault Falcon family but also some impressive equipements from the US Air Force (including the huge C-17).

GE90 blades on Air France' Boeing B777F © Paul Marais-Hayer

But Paris Airshow is not all about planes made of composite and heavy metal! I really encourage you to take some time to visit the different booths and chalets where you will find some of our PLM MarketPlace partners: Airbus Cimpa, ESI Group, Optis and Samtech. All of them would be really pleased to welcome you on their booth and tell you more about their solutions.

Are you planning to visit them before enjoying a flight demonstration? OK, it's an advice from an aviation enthusiast, but listen: Paris Airshow is a unique opportunity to mix business and pleasure, so don't hesitate anymore and join us!

Well gotta leave: I've got a slot to visit my future bizjet

Anthony [live from Paris Airshow]

Modelling optical performance of devices in conventional CAD packages has proved either impossible or extremely time-consuming. However, managing light and lit appearance are crucial for lighting systems, style signature and human machine interfaces.

OPTIS has announced that its 3D Textures application will soon be available into SPEOS CAA V5 Based, the CATIA V5 integrated version of OPTIS’s SPEOS light simulation software. SPEOS enables engineering designers to model complex integrated mechanical and optical engineering tasks seamlessly within CATIA V5.

Using 3D Textures For SPEOS CAA V5 Based, a designer can easily create tens of millions of modelled points on surfaces, directly inside CATIA V5, in view to manage the way light is propagated and comes to the final user’s eye.

With the integration of LED sources in more and more systems such automotive tail lamps, luminaire design, lit buttons and backlights in electronics including PDAs and mobile phones, it becomes necessary to generate 3D Textures motifs applied on complex compound surfaces.

SPEOS 3D Textures enables a 3D model to include tens of millions of patterns thanks to a memory requirement optimization (150Mb needed for 1 million patterns), a rapid loading time and fast simulation time (16min for 4 million patterns). It also offers fully optimised multithreaded and 64bit operation, which other packages cannot match.

3D Textures For SPEOS CAA V5 Based will offer advanced optical design capabilities, including modelling CAD patterns onto any possible CAD shape and surface and modelling based on mixing diverse materials of construction.

With this unique 3D Textures function, SPEOS CAA V5 Based will enable both improved design functionality and time-saving in challenging applications such as modelling backlit displays, and the latest designs of automotive lights.

The OPTIS Team