ZPL Macro: Read optimization operand across pupil

  • 16 October 2021
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Allie
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Description

Output of the macro with some additional post-processing in Excel

This macro may be used as a basis for gathering field-by-field ray data in equal steps across the pupil. In this macro, the angle of incidence on a surface is reported but the operand may be changed to any that uses normalized ray coordinates. 

 

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Date Version OpticStudio Version Comment
2019/12/10 1.0 19.8 Creation
2020/09/20 1.1 20.2 Updates for OpticsTalk+Envision.
Cleaning up the output. Additionally, a reformatted version has been made available which splits the calculation into child/parents macros.

 

Allie | Team Lead Application Engineering | Zemax, Ansys

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Julia
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For the same purpose, the ray data can be retrieved through the interactive connection between ZOS-API & Excel.

 

Description:

  1. Set customize ribbon (File>Options) to enable Developer tab in Excel
  2. Open VBA trhough Developer> Visual Basic
  3. It is required to load the ZOS-API assembly at the beginning. The macros can be checked from VBAProject> Modules 

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  1. Open the attached Exel file (with macro included), the Connect button and Surface Data button are linked to different macros. 

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  1. Click Interactive Extension, then the connect button. A message box will pop up and show the connected message. 

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  1. Click Surface Data button, LDE and FDE data of the current active lens file will be extracted 

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  1. Click any surface button from the generated surface button list, incident angles of rays on the target surface that tracing across the whole pupil from specific field will be retrieved and displayed on a newly opened sheet.  

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ZOS-API: Excel

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