Hi Kotya!



Thanks for your post here. Currently, for an already-open Shaded Model window, there is no way to reset your cutting plane location or orientation without using the mouse controls. What you'll have to do as a workaround is to open a new Shaded Model window or "Clone" your window when no cutting planes are selected.



However, this is a request we have heard from other users before, so I would be happy to add a vote under your name for including this functionality. I should note that these feature requests are not a guarantee that it will be added to a future release. These requests are weighed based on impact to our users, difficulty to implement, and the number of users who request it. Still, we truly appreciate your input here as it really does help direct the future of OpticStudio!



Please don't hesitate to follow up here if you have any more questions on this, and thanks again for your time!

Hi Kotya, 



Good question. Currently, we don't have feature requests available to the public, but this is actually something that I've discussed with our Product Management Team. With the new MyZemax platform, we have a long list of things that we'd like to implement to give customers better access to resources and knowledge of what's going on at Zemax. I personally think that creating a sub-platform where customers can log feature requests and vote on them would be a great way for us to see what's important to customers. We're not yet to the point where we've really dug into this, but this may happen in the coming months. I will make sure to keep you updated if this is something that we move to implement.



Thanks, and let us know if you have any other questions here!

Hi Kotya,

Thanks for your follow-up post here! At this time, we don't have anything new to announce on this feature.

Regarding your specific question here, what kind of testing are you doing? Is there a reason why this testing needs to be done inside of a 3D Shaded Model viewer? Are you looking to see how a fan of rays travel through a slightly off-set plane that is parallel to the YZ plane? Perhaps having a bit more detailed understanding of what you're trying to accomplish could help us make some other recommendations.

If it absolutely needs to be done in the Shaded Model, one idea I can think of is to use the Tilt/Decenter Elements tool, and intentionally 'decenter' the entire lens system (between the Object and Image surfaces). Then, when you apply the cutting plane initially, it will be placed at the YZ plane. Any decentering of the lens system along the X-axis will therefore cut it at a 'different' YZ plane, equal in off-set to your decentering in the Coordinate Break surface:

 

 

Would an approach like this work out for you? Let us know either way, and we can dig deeper if need be!

~ Angel

Thank you Kotya! We'll make sure to report this to the product team.