Hello  David,

Yeah I did in Non sequential editor. Yeah could be David 

Thanks

David

Hello David,

Thanks Sandrine for letting me in . I have tested in OS build 21.2 and it seems working fine . On clicking on Material column it opens correct material .

Sahil

Hi David

I can't seem to be able to reproduce the issue. If I am on the material column, then opening the Materials Catalog opens the right material. I am testing in 21.2 too. I'll ask someone else to have a look. I might be missing something.

Sandrine

Hi David

It seems to work for me in non-sequential mode too. Would you mind checking again?

Sandrine

To obtain POP image on shaded view, you can:

1. Open the POP settings to save the .ZBF file at all surfaces, please make sure that the .zbf file you save has the same name as the .zmx

2. Select the surface you want to show, go to the physical optics-> check draw fiber coupling on shaded model

3. Open shaded model plot

Thanks, Angel!

I'll probably use both of these settings!

-- Greg

Re: Open the settings before running an analysis: Show Options First

Posted 28 days ago by Sandrine Auriol, Zemax Senior Optical Engineer

'When an analysis takes some time to update, it can be frustrating to wait and especially when the settings are not yours.

But there is a setting in Setup... Project Preferences...Graphics...Show Options First. When it is ticked, the settings box will appear before any analysis graphic or text is computed and displayed.'

I will try this immediately!!  I hate waiting for a long analysis to start running when I re-open a file, and having to remember to try to interrupt it with TERMINATE.  But...

Couldn't you guys just make 'Auto Apply' UNCHECKED be the default condition on opening an analysis??

Hi Sandrine,

I couldn't find the file 'OpticStudio_new_shortcuts.CFG' inside the zip.

To complement what Berta was saying about arithmetic operations in a cell. If you want to subtract a number X from a cell, you should type plus, minus, and then your value X.

Otherwise, I think it just puts the value minus X into the cell.

Apologies David. Copy is indeed ctrl+c and paste is ctrl+v. Thanks for pointing that out. I've corrected my post. 

Don't forget copy/paste!

The editors in OpticStudio are essentially spreadsheets, so if you need to enter multiple similar rows into an editor then using standard copy/paste functionality can be a real time saver.

For example, if you'd like to calculate the chief ray height at multiple surfaces in the MFE then you can simply set up the required operand for a single surface.

Then copy and paste multiple instances.

Then all that is needed is to modify the surface number on each line.

For added speed this is best done by using th ctrl+c (copy) and ctrl+v (paste) keyboard shortcut, although it is also possible with the mouse by left-clicking the row number to highlights and then right-clicking the row number to bring up the context menu.

The attached video shows the whole process. This technique will work in all OpticStudio editors. It will also work with blocks of operands/rows, so in the example above you could initially setup lines for both the chief and marginal rays height and copy/paste simultaneously.

Easily identify parameter numbers

Many operands and ZPL commands require you to put in the 'parameter number' of a surface you are interested in.

Let’s say as an example, I wanted to find out what the parameter number is for 'Tilt About Z' on a Coordinate Break.

The easy way to identify the parameter number will be to insert a standard surface above the Coordinate Break and compare the column headers as you switch back and forth between the two surfaces.

We can see from this that when the Standard surface is highlighted, the column header will change to ‘Par 5’. So, Tilt About Z corresponds to Parameter 5.