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Luxexcel: Creating custom 3D printed optics without design skills


The challenge

Luxexcel, now acquired by Meta, faced a challenge: Creating CAD models for custom lenses was complex and required professional designers. This slow, specialist process clashed with their goal of making lens customization easier and more accessible for customers.

The outcome

Luxexcel partnered with trinckle to develop a web-based lens creator that allows customers themselves to design their own lenses.

This streamlined the ordering process, reduced design time, and made lens customization more accessible, with customers now able to create their own designs without relying on professional designers for support.

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Location

Eindhoven, Netherlands

Industry

Optics and lenses

Size

50

Product

Custom solution

<5 days

lead times

From design to customer, no CAD experience needed

100%

automated workflow

Customers do the design work in a browser as part of the order process

10 minute

design time

Enabling fast, easy product personalization for customers

Optimizing production flow with design automation

3D printed lenses may sound like science fiction, but Luxexcel’s innovative technology is making it a reality. Known for revolutionizing optics production, Luxexcel leverages additive manufacturing to significantly reduce costs and improve efficiency in small batch production and prototyping.

However, creating a CAD model for lenses was a challenge that required professional designers. To overcome this, Luxexcel partnered with trinckle to simplify the design process, making it easier for customers to create and order custom lenses, aligning with their goal to democratize optics production.

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Solving the challenge of design

Now customers can easily create their very own design. All they need to do is use the web-based lens creator on Luxexcel’s website. They input the relevant parameters, like focal length and lens diameter, and can immediately preview their lens. Once the design is approved, the customer can proceed to ordering in a single click.

Simple interface to save on design hours

With the perfect application of a trinckle design automation app, Luxexcel has removed a major barrier to creating custom products: design time and complexity.

Based on parametric design principles our software automates the design process and relieves engineers and designers of many manual tasks.

Product customization continues to grow in importance across all industries. Additive manufacturing, in combination with design automation , makes it possible for businesses to address the specific needs or tastes of each customer.

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“With our new design tool, we want to take the next step in opening up the world of optical development. Lowering the bar to make use of optimized optics for its application, and eliminating the limitations of standard stock products will be a game changer for many designers that use optics in their products. The trinckle 3D customization software is an integral part of that development.”
Peter Paul Cornelissen

Head of Marketing and Online Business Development

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