Automakers and their suppliers are under pressure to get new, innovative car designs to market quickly ― but also cost-effectively, and in compliance with regulatory and functional requirements. Interior and exterior lighting systems represent key elements of any car design, but they can take significant time and effort to develop today, thanks to the disparate teams and disconnected processes involved. However, all that is about to change. A new solution called Ansys VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation brings together advanced technologies f rom two industry leaders ― Ansys and Autodesk® ― to support a seamless, connected development workflow via Autodesk VRED®. By providing lighting designers and optical engineers with shared data, a common workflow and a unified development process, VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation cuts enormous time and costs from the design-and-verification cycle, while also increasing accuracy and product confidence. Today, the majority of the world’s automotive lighting development teams are already using industry-leading technologies f rom Ansys and Autodesk. Now, for the first time, they can apply these solutions in close alignment to achieve an even greater return on investment, in a single connected workflow. The combination of Autodesk VRED and VRXPERIENCE Light Simulation delivers physics-based, engineering-grade light simulation to studio designers.