Hi Mark,

Thank you for your question to Zemax Support. The CAD Part Zemax Part Designer option for objects is available in Premium but not in Professional versions of OpticStudio. You may upgrade to Premium into order to get this and a few other CAD Part object options.

Best regards,

Kevin Scales

Hello,

I am reading the Feature Comparison for subscription licenses at Zemax website https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0539/4959/5825/files/osdoc_subscription_compareeditions_a4_20-3_092020-en-us.pdf?v=1622161489  

It is said here that “Part designer – static parts” is available in professional versions, but “Part designer – dynamic parts” is not. Could someone please explain what the static parts and dynamic parts are and what is the difference between them?

Thanks!
- Maria

I suspect that dynamic parts mean CAD Part: Zemax Part Designer components. These are parts you can draw in the Part Designer and can make aspects of them parametrizable for the Merit function. 

Hi, I’m new to this forum and just signed up to join it.

My question is how to view the coordinate in the sketch mode of Part Designer screen? For example, when I draw several lines to create prism or some polygon section with mouse I don’t see x, y coordinates displayed. Is there setting to display the coordinate of points or mouse location?

@jsung

For new questions, please consider creating a new topic

In the menu bar of the Part Designer, you will find a square icon looking like a crosshair. I think it is the feature you are looking for:

I hope this helps.

Take care,

David