Hi Kida-san,

I am not sure if you will lose your forum access once your license becomes  unsupported. That would be counter productive for ANSYS as people without current license can:

1- still contribute to technical discussions and,

2- see if Zemax new features discussed here would make it worth enough to renew their license.

There are sometimes a few Zemax topics discussed on the reddit optics forum. It’s only partially overlapping with Zemax forum, but you might find some help there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Optics/

@Hideki.Kida, I don’t think you’ll loose access to this community. If you read this post:

This is what @Nicholas Herringer said:

Regarding the topic of a paywall, we don’t intend to change the access standards we currently have in place for content hosted on legacy Zemax platforms (namely the forum and knowledgebase). We want to at least maintain (but ideally enhance) the experience we have in place today, and part of that means not adding paywalls to already public content. That said, to post on the forums, users will, of course, need to have an account and be logged in.

You need an account on the community forum, which you already have, and that’s it. It isn’t tied to your license status as far as I’m aware. And I truly hope they keep it that way.

Take care,

David

David-san and Nick-san,

Thanks for the reply.
The information that there will be no Paywall is very good news for me.
I am not very good at English, but I will actively use this FORUM in the future.
Thank you very much.

KIDA