Authors: Juan C Miñano Pablo Benítez Asunción Santamaría
Publish Date: 2010/06/25
Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 99-102
Abstract
Illumination optics has been the first to benefit from advances in freeform tooling mainly because of its looser requirements on surface accuracy and finishing In the last decade advances in freeform surface tooling have offered the designer possibilities for which there are few theoretical design tools The available freeform design tools are reviewed with special attention to the most powerful the SMS 3D design method Examples of designs done with this method are given
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