24.1 Release Notes
January 11th, 2024
1 Announcement
1.1 Zemax OpticsBuilder is Retiring
24.1 will be the last release of Zemax OpticsBuilder.
The last OpticsBuilder release with new functionality will be 24.1. After this release, there will be no further releases or defect corrections. While we appreciate the role that OpticsBuilder served in enabling optomechanical packaging and analysis, we are confident that this role will be provided through new functionality and enhancements to be developed for Ansys Zemax OpticStudio and Ansys Speos. Integrated, streamlined workflows between OpticStudio and Speos enable comprehensive optomechanical design capabilities that ensure customer’s continued ability to bring products to market faster with the use of Ansys Optics tools.
Lease license sales have stopped but paid-up licenses may be purchased up to July 1, 2024. These paid-up licenses will come without development support, but ACE support will still be available. Users with a paid-up license of OpticsBuilder can continue to use this product in perpetuity with any version of Creo that is supported by OpticsBuilder (Creo 4 - 9). Please reach out to your Account Manager for further details.
2 Tools, Features, and Capabilities
2.1 Offline legacy license activation
Activate, update, and transfer all your licenses offline.
A new Zemax License Manager release is included with OpticsBuilder or available as a separate download. This release adds an offline section with a built-in offline softkey license activation and license transfer process.
This means these operations no longer need to be done via a separate application. Since we are now issuing Ansys licenses, this also prepares Zemax legacy applications for the future discontinuation of the legacy online license servers.
