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AllieZemax Staff

AllieZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: Build a lens from spec with the API

Topic: Build an initial lens design from a provided spec sheet using the APILive solution reveal and Q&A: June 22nd, 8am - 9am PDT (See the attachments for a calendar invite)Engineer: @Allie - Senior Application Engineer at Ansys Zemax Ask an Engineer is LIVE again this month! Try out the challenge below to learn more about the API, then come back on June 22nd to discuss. Submit your solution or questions as a reply to this thread. Challenge opens: June 9thSubmit your code as a reply by: June 21st, EODChallenge: Any new project for an optical designer comes with a set of required criteria. The job of the designer is to create a system which meets the requested specifications. To do this, the designer will begin with a generalized starting point, then optimize and tweak the system until it meets (or even exceeds) spec. Often, specification data is provided in the form of a data sheet which must then be translated into the optical simulation software of choice. An example of a thor

6 months ago

AllieZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: Gaussian Beam Propagation

Join us for our monthly “Ask an Engineer” event! On January 19th at 8am PST, Hui Chen will be answering your questions about Gaussian Beam Propagation. This event will be hosted on this thread in text form with a focus on the spotlighted topic… Topic: Gaussian Beam Propagation in OpticStudioDates: January 10th - January 19thLive Discussion Time: 8am - 9am PST, January 19thEngineer: @Hui Chen - Senior Application Engineer at AnsysSubmit your questions for Hui as a reply to this thread between now and the end of the event. Questions added to the discussion will be answered starting at 8am Pacific on January 19th. Once the event is concluded, the thread will be closed.If your question pertains to a particular file, the question may be moved to a private support case. In that situation, your license support status will be considered. Do you have a topic you want to see during these events? Let us know here: Ask an Engineer proposed topics.

11 months ago

AllieZemax Staff

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Code Exchange - a new and exclusive forumNews

Members of Zemax staff are now sharing coding solutions they have written or vetted within the forum category Code Exchange. This includes DLLs, API script, and ZPL code. All of these will be provided alongside a general ReadMe document so you can quickly understand and utilize the solutions. This forum category is visible to supported users only. This means that you must be logged in and associated with an active Zemax license in order to see this category.For more information, see this article: New to the Code Exchange? Read this! Read this update in Chinese: 新增论坛类别：代码交流Read this update in Japanese: 新しいフォーラムカテゴリー：コード交換

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Hui ChenZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: Modeling Fiber Coupling

Join us for our monthly “Ask an Engineer” event! On February 17th at 8am PST, Hui Chen will be answering your questions about modeling fiber coupling in OpticStudio. This event will be hosted on this thread in text form with a focus on the spotlighted topic… Topic: Modeling Fiber Coupling in OpticStudioDates: February 3rd - February 17thLive Discussion Time: 8am - 9am PST, February 17thEngineer: @Hui Chen - Senior Application Engineer at AnsysSubmit your questions for Hui as a reply to this thread between now and the end of the event. Questions added to the discussion will be answered starting at 8am Pacific on February 17th. Once the event is concluded, the thread will be closed.If your question pertains to a particular file, the question may be moved to a private support case. In that situation, your license support status will be considered. Do you have a topic you want to see during these events? Let us know here: Ask an Engineer proposed topics.

11 months ago

Hui ChenZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: STAR module for STOP analysis

Join us for our monthly “Ask an Engineer” event! Submit your questions between now and March 17th. The event will be hosted on this thread in text form with a focus on the spotlighted topic: Topic: STAR: Bring structural and thermal analysis results into OpticStudioPredicting the optical effects resulting from mechanical stresses or thermal variations is an important step in creating a valid digital prototype. Ask your questions about modeling surface deformations due to mechanical stress, expansion or compression of components due to temperature changes, temperature gradients or changes across a system, and effects of temperature on index of refraction. Dates: March 4th - March 17thLive Discussion Time: 8am - 9am PST, March 17thEngineer:@Hui Chen - Senior Application Engineer at Ansys ZemaxSubmit your questions as a reply to this thread between now and the end of the event. Items may be added in any supported language (English, Japanese, Chinese). Questions added to the discussi

10 months ago

Alissa WilczynskiZemax Staff

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The Zemax 22.2 Release is Live

Table of ContentsThe Zemax 22.2 release is here! Learn from the experts in the 22.2 release webinar Our Community Manager’s Take The Zemax 22.2 release is here!The 22.2 release is available now, and we’ve got a series of events and information designed to help you make the most of the latest and greatest. Highlights include…Ray Aiming Wizard (OpticStudio) - Easily and accurately determine the optimal ray aiming settings to ensure that rays pass through your system. Export to Speos Lens System (OpticStudio) - Create a reduced-order model of the current optical system to be used in a Speos simulation, enabling accurate optical sensor simulation in a realistic environment. Performance Analysis (OpticStudio STAR Module) - Find out how temperature changes and deformations contribute to a change in system performance. Ray Footprint Boundaries (OpticsBuilder) - Interactive ray footprint boundaries allow the use of CAD tools to measure, position, and analyze the effects that mechanical compone

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Gernot.BlobelZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: How do I import a CAD component in sequential design into OpticStudio?

Event DetailsTopic: Utilizing a custom CAD component within Sequential Mode in OpticStudioLive demo and Q&A: August 24th, 8am - 9am PDT (See the attachments for a calendar invite)Engineer:@Gernot.Blobel - Senior Application Engineer, Ansys Zemax Ask an Engineer is a once-monthly live event. The meeting is a small, informal gathering wherein our technical staff will take the time to educate and answer questions on the featured topic. We highly encourage new users - especially students - to join and learn a bit more about the software!Take a look at the topic and resources below, then join us on August 24th to connect with our engineer. Live event: August 24th, 8am PST (the calendar invite may be found in the attachment link at the bottom of this post)Topic:It is often the case that our optical systems utilize unique parts or objects designed in-house. For example, a vehicle’s windshield shape (an important component of a HUD system) may be proprietary information that we would nee

5 months ago

Tom PickeringZemax Staff

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Zemax Product Team wants to know: Working with stock optics

My team is currently looking into improving our stock optics features, and we want users’ feedback to help direct our efforts. If you use off-the-shelf optical components in your design, we’d like to hear from you!Please comment below with a summary of how you use stock optics in your design. In particular, I’d like to know your answers to the following:What are the types of systems you design using stock optics? Within those systems, which types of stock optics do you use (e.g. lenses, filters, prisms, splitters, etc.)? Describe your design workflow. At what point in your design do you start considering stock optics, i.e. do you start with specific optic(s) you already have in hand or do you wait until the final design and then search for the optics closest to your specification? After you have identified the optics you need for a system, how do you search for each component (for all types of components, not just lenses)? Do you tend to order from one specific vendor or shop around mu

10 months ago

AllieZemax Staff

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New here?F.A.Q.

Welcome to the Zemax Community! This is a gathering place for all things optics. Within this community, you will be able to find out more about your Zemax products. You will also be able to chat with other industry professionals about the latest trends. Use this space to ask questions, help others, and learn! Now that you're here, there are a few steps you should take to make the most of your experience! 新人入门？(Chinese Version)はじめてですか？ (Japanese Version) First Steps: 1. Subscribe to User News & AlertsWhen you subscribe, you will be kept up-to-date on news that affects Zemax’s user community, like new release functionalities, opportunities to learn and network, or critical issues. 2. Configure your profileLog into the platform and navigate to your profile settings here. Each of your profile elements (except your last name) will be visible to all community members. We encourage you to be descriptive: tell others about your areas of expertise and professional interests. 3. Introduce

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1 year ago

Flurin HerrenZemax Staff

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Ask an Engineer: OpticStudio-CAD interoperability and OpticsBuilder

Join us for our monthly “Ask an Engineer” event! Submit your questions between now and April 14th. The event will be hosted on this thread in text form with a focus on the spotlighted topic: Topic: OpticStudio-CAD interoperability and OpticsBuilderTo turn optical designs into reality, teams of optical and mechanical engineers need to coordinate their individual expertise around one common goal. In order to convert optical designs into CAD Zemax offers different approaches. I am happy to answer question about that in this month`s "Ask an Engineer" Event. Please ask your questions on Zemax OpticsBuilder, CAD Files Export tools, CAD Parts in Zemax OpticStudio and optomechanical workflows in general. Dates: March 30th - April 14thLive Discussion Time: 8am - 9am PST, April 14thEngineer:@Flurin Herren - Application Engineer II at Ansys ZemaxSubmit your questions as a reply to this thread between now and the end of the event. Items may be added in any supported language (English, Japan

9 months ago

Sandrine AuriolZemax Staff

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August 2022 Community Updates

WelcomeWelcome to the August edition of the Zemax’s Community newsletter!This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful from the last month! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Featured Community Posts: Heads-Up Display (HUD) Knowledgebase Updates Ask An Engineer: How do I import a CAD component in sequential design into OpticStudio? Zemax-er Spotlight: Mathilde ContyIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below!Featured Community Posts: Heads-Up Display (HUD)Heads-up displays are optical systems which allow information to be displayed to a user in a manner such that the user does not have to look away from their current field of view. These types of systems are particularly prevalent in the automotive industry wherein data (such as speed or remaining mileage) can be shown to a driver as a part of their windshield view. HUD systems are easily modeled in Ansys software. For example, you will see i

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AllieZemax Staff

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November 2021 Community UpdatesNewsletter

WelcomeWelcome to the November monthly Community update. In this newsletter you will find:Featured Community posts: this month we’re focusing on DLLs, a powerful set of tools to customize a range of features in OpticStudio. A list of Knowledgebase articles which are new or have been significantly updated in the last month. Information on the new Aspheres and Freeforms learning plan on OpticsAcademy. Mini interview with our highlighted user Nicolas Azais: get to know Nicolas, an OpticStudio expert.Let us know in the comments below if you there’s anything you’d like in this newsletter in the future or if you have any other feedback. We want to make this monthly post as useful to you as possible! Featured Community postsThis month we’ve seen lots of questions about Dynamic Link Libraries (DLLs), both on the Community and in questions to Zemax support, so we thought it we should pull out some of our favorite posts on this topic.DLLs are a really powerful way to extend and customize feature

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AllieZemax Staff

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The Zemax 21.3 suite is live!Release News

The latest major release of the Zemax suite of products is now live! The newest versions of OpticStudio, OpticsBuilder, and OpticsViewer are available to download as of the September 21st. Check out the company blog for highlights, or read the release notes below for full details: OpticStudio 21.3 Release Notes OpticsBuilder 21.3 Release Notes OpticsViewer 21.3 Release Notes Here at Zemax, we are excited about the ability to change the position and angle of any optical object with the classification type of Compound or Boolean in OpticsBuilder. We’ve spoken with @Flurin Herren* about these latest updates. *Flurin Herren joined Zemax this year as the Optomechanical Engineer for the European Customer Success Team and specializes in CAD and CAM. He handles questions on OpticStudio and all things about the STAR Module and OpticsBuilder. Connect with Flurin on his introduction post here: Hello World! | Zemax Community. What’s a new feature in the 21.3 release that you’re excited about?

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1 year ago

AllieZemax Staff

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December 2021 Community UpdatesNewsletter

WelcomeWelcome to the December edition of the Community update! This newsletter provides information and updates on technical content that is most relevant to you, the user! In this newsletter you will find:Featured Community Posts Knowledgebase Updates Tech Tips Tuesday Zemax-er Spotlight: Benoit Moulin Is this list missing something you want to see? Let us know in the comments!Featured Community PostsThe wavefront is an important feature to evaluate the quality of an optical system. Understanding how OpticStudio computes this criterion is key to a good evaluation: OpticStudio has different settings and assumptions and the more you know them, the better. Questions and discussions on this topic have led to modifications and clarifications in the help files. So, we’ve decided to shine some light on the subject. Have a look at the posts below to find out more about it:Issue when Zernike coefficients are calculated at the image plane (Reference OPD = Absolute 2) - @Sandrine explains how t

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Sandrine AuriolZemax Staff

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July 2022 Community Updates

WelcomeWelcome to the July edition of the Zemax’s Community newsletter!This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful from the last month! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Featured Community Posts: Tools for the eye 中文论坛日本語フォーラム Knowledgebase Updates Ask an engineer: How do I model my laser beam in OpticStudio? Zemax-er Spotlight: Gábor ErdeiIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below! Featured Community Posts: Tools for the eyeThis month we have selected forum posts around vision and eye modelling. Feel free to reply on these posts if you have some suggestions or feedback! We also had some activities on the Chinese and Japanese forum. And our lovely colleague @yuan.chen translated this popular post for English readers: 中文论坛用OpticStudio模擬微結構薄膜產生摩爾紋 (Moiré) | Zemax Community 日本語フォーラムノンシーケンシャルモードでの、レンズ起因の光芒・光条のシミュレーション方法 | Zemax Community室内照明(シーリングライト) 室内が人間の目にどう見えるかシミュレーションする方法 | Zemax Commu

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AllieZemax Staff

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January 2022 Community in ReviewNewsletter

WelcomeWelcome to the January edition of the Zemax Community update! This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful! In this article, we will call out forum posts you may have missed, new Knowledgebase articles, and will honor a Zemax user who has made a contribution to their peers! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Featured Community Posts Knowledgebase Updates Zemax-er Spotlight: Jeff WildeIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below!Featured Community PostsDid you know our technical teams are working every day to bring you new and exciting content? In addition to providing support, our team also makes guides, forum posts, webinars, and more! This month alone, we’ve posted all kinds of new items. Check them out below! Finally for our Chinese readers, this post will give a better insight on Tolerance Criterion. Knowledgebase UpdatesWhere to find more help & information@AllieWhet

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AllieZemax Staff

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August 2021 Community UpdatesNewsletter

WelcomeWelcome to Zemax's first installment of our monthly community newsletter. In these newsletters you will find:Featured Community posts, based on what you, the user, are searching for. So let us know what you want to learn more about! A list of new or updated Knowledgebase articles. Mini interviews with our highlighted users. Each month you'll be introduced to some of these power users, so keep an eye out for them on the community!If you want to see something added to this list, reply in the comments below. This is your space, so help us to make it useful to you! Featured Community postsThere's no denying it: diffractive optics are popular right now. Are you one of the many Zemax-ers looking for ways to efficiently design HUD and AR/VR systems? You may be interested in the conversations happening on the forums:OpticStudio grating tools beta function update history - Zemax’s @Michael Cheng has been instrumental in designing diffraction DLLs (such as the RCWA DLL). Find his version

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AllieZemax Staff

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June 2022 Community Updates

WelcomeWelcome to the June edition of the Zemax’s Community newsletter!This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful from the last month! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Featured Community Posts: Tools for visualizing your system OpticsBuilder is now on OpticsAcademy! Knowledgebase Updates 日本語ナレッジベースを拡張中! (The Japanese Knowledgebase is expanding!) Zemax-er Spotlight: Paul K. ManhartIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below!Featured Community Posts: Tools for visualizing your systemThis month we have selected forum posts that present ideas or macros to improve visualization. It can be visualizing the entrance pupil on a layout, seeing the propagation of a gaussian beam through an optical system or plotting the MTF in object space. Feel free to reply on these posts if you have some suggestions or feedback! OpticsBuilder is now on OpticsAcademy!New to OpticsBuilder, or want to increase your

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6 months ago

AllieZemax Staff

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Post your questions for our "Ask an Engineer" event

Topic: Image SimulationDate: Friday, December 10thTime: 8am - 9am PSTEngineer: Hui Chen - Senior Optical Engineer at ZemaxJoin us for our first “Ask an Engineer” event! On December 10th at 8am Pacific, Hui Chen will be discussing the Image Simulation tool, and answering questions related to the analysis. This event will be hosted on the Community in text form with a focus on the spotlighted topic. Questions may be submitted as a reply to this thread between now and the end of the event. Once the event is concluded, the thread will be closed. If your question pertains to a particular file, the question may be moved to a private support case. In that situation, your license support status will be considered. Do you have a topic you want to see during these events? Let us know here: Ask an Engineer proposed topics.

1 year ago

Sandrine AuriolZemax Staff

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November 2022 Community Newsletter

WelcomeWelcome to the November edition of the Zemax’s Community newsletter! This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful from the last month! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Featured Community Posts: AR/VR Chinese forum Japanese forum Check out the newly-released 22.3 suite of Zemax products! Knowledgebase Updates Zemax-er Spotlight: Ty AdairIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below! Featured Community Posts: AR/VRThis month, Yuan has been busy updating summary posts about the AR/VR topics.On the Code Exchange side, Yuan and Michael created a ZPL and Python scripts that can fit a non-sequential object like a CAD object into a built-in sequential surface. The scripts build a merit function and make a surface ready to be optimized! For example, that could be interested to describe a windshield in sequential mode. For more information, check the links below: Chinese forumAR/VR相关资料整理Japanes

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AllieZemax Staff

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Notice: Equations missing from 21.3.1 OpticStudio Help

Hi all,The 21.3.1 releases of OpticStudio and OpticsViewer include product Help documentation that is missing equations. We are sorry for this inconvenience to our customers, and we are correcting this error for the next software release. If you are working with 21.3.1 and would like a copy of the Help with the equations included, please login to your Zemax.com account and open a support ticket. Our staff will provide you with a fixed document.

1 year ago

Sandrine AuriolZemax Staff

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October 2022 Community Newsletter

WelcomeWelcome to the October edition of the Zemax’s Community newsletter! This newsletter provides updates for you, the user, on items you might find interesting or helpful from the last month! Check out each of these items below:Welcome Where is September Community Update? David reaches the Luminary rank Featured Community Posts: Converters Chinese forum Japanese forum Knowledgebase Updates Zemax-er Spotlight: Alissa WilczynskiIs there something else you’d like to see? Let us know in the comments below!Where is September Community Update?You haven’t missed anything! We felt it was a bit awkward to publish our newsletter at the end of the month. So we skipped the September month and are starting afresh with the October one. There hasn’t been any Ask An Engineer event this month as we are working on a new format. David reaches the Luminary rankLast month, David reached the Luminary rank. He is the 1st to reach that rank. Congratulations @David.Nguyen and a massive thank you for all you

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Ask an Engineer: How do I model my laser beam in OpticStudio?

Ask an Engineer: Build a lens from spec with the API

Ask an Engineer: Gaussian Beam Propagation

Code Exchange - a new and exclusive forumNews

Ask an Engineer: Modeling Fiber Coupling

Ask an Engineer: STAR module for STOP analysis

The Zemax 22.2 Release is Live

Ask an Engineer: How do I import a CAD component in sequential design into OpticStudio?

Zemax Product Team wants to know: Working with stock optics

New here?F.A.Q.

Ask an Engineer: OpticStudio-CAD interoperability and OpticsBuilder

August 2022 Community Updates

November 2021 Community UpdatesNewsletter

The Zemax 21.3 suite is live!Release News

December 2021 Community UpdatesNewsletter

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January 2022 Community in ReviewNewsletter

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Notice: Equations missing from 21.3.1 OpticStudio Help

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