Hello, I created a ZPL (ZPL02.zpl), it seems to work if I run it directly through Programming>Edit/Run, but not inside the merit function.PRINT "worst case : ", worst_colorOPTRETURN 0, worst_colorThose two lines do not give the same value. The first one gives a correct value. In addition, when I call this ZPL through the merit function, it does not update the output value.What should I do?Thanks in advance for your help,  

Is there a list of ZPL reserved terms, such as.…$FILENAME()$DATE()I know that these are not high priority terms like the optimization operands, but they are useful when crafting output text.    Others might be PATH,  and some of the System Parameters. Thanks  

I want to use operand ZPLM to write code. Please create a code that optimizes the semi-diameter of all lenses to be less than the number I set as the target. Also, what numbers should I use for Mac# and Data in ZPLM? 

Hi! I’m trying to write a little for-loop that loops through various field angles, stop when vignetting occurs on any surface, however, somehow it doesn’t seem to ‘register’ vignetting. I’m confused why this is the case and how I should go about trying to solve it. Would appreciate any comments/suggestions/advice on this. Thank you!My observation: For any max field in the loop > 179.9 deg, FLDY(1) and MAXF() would both give me 179.9 degrees. For any max field <= 179.9 deg, FLDY(1) and MAXF() would give me a value that correspond to the max field. Regardless of the max field in the loop, RAYV() would be printed as 0. I’ve tried it with RAYE() and I would get 0 regardless too.  [Mod note: moved to more appropriate forum for ZPL-related discussions.] 

I want to get phase and amplitude infromation from huygens psf on some lens. However, in huygens psf, only the information of the last surface=image surface are provided. In that case, if i ignore the last surface in lens data editor, the lens just before the last lens is assigned as an image surface. I want to operate this process in zpl, but i cannot find any command related to ignoring the lens. I'm writing to ask for your help. Thank you all

The NSRA operand is very powerful since you can get almost all ray data about a given segment without saving a ZRD.  However, access to which face a segment hit is impossible without saving a ZRD to disk and then parsing the ZRD; the ZOS-API single & batch ray trace for non-sequential mode piggyback on the old DDE structs which are limited to 18 data values, which is why the IRayTraceNSCSourceData is limited to 18 outputs (and Face Data is not one of those outputs).This severely limits ray/object analysis in non-sequential mode.  The quickest solution to programmatically access Face Data would be to simply add Data 40 to the NSRA operand so you can test which face a segment hit and then get the needed information by using the other Data values.

Hello ! I am making a comparison of surface overlaps for surfaces that repeat in more than one configuration using a ZPL macro. This task would be much easier if I know a command to specify the active surfaces in every configuration. I searched the Zemax help  in zpl macro programming . I could not find a solution. Any suggestion from your end would be valuable.  Kind Regards,Santhoshi

Hi all,I want to save data and images of detectors automatically with ZPL.  So I made the ZPL code as below. For n = 2, 6, 1    ####### get Detector viewer in img.    winnum = n+1    OpenAnalysisWindow "Dvr", cfgpath$    ExportJPG winnum, imgfile$        ####### get Detector viewer in dat.    #ModifySettings cfgtxt$, DVW_SHOW, 1 # extraction middle row data from 2d data    GetTextFile datfile$, "Dvr", cfgtxt$ , 1    ConvertFileFormat datfile$, 1   #Unicode to ANSINext Once I open all detector viewer windows, I tried to save images and data in detector number order. However, I couldn’t save each detector data/image because it cannot recognize the number of detector in this code. What should I do? Or, are there better method to do it? Please help me. Thanks in advance. 

Hello! I am new to ZPL Programming. I currently have the task to extract clear aperture values from Zemax (not according to surface number but the surface names ) using a ZPL macro. I am currently struggling to find the right command.  It would be great if someone could help. Kind Regards,Santhoshi

In otpicstudion I am using, there are two way to get edge spread function. One is gemetric ESF, and the other is FFT ESF. I guess that FFT ESF are based on FFT, but don't know how the geometric ESF is calculated. Is it based on raytrace method rather than wave property of light?

Hello community,I am looking for an example of OPEN / READ / WRITE a binary file in ZPL.Many Thanks!Hans-Jürgen 

Hi, I have a question of how to extract the reference height or distortion in percentage with ZPL? I was using RAYY to get the real height but I’d like to extract the other two col data as well. Thanks! 

Hi,I want to save data from 100 detectors (ZRD file) to .DAT or .SDF files using ZPL macro or something similar.  Can anyone help with a code?  It is tedious to manually save one by one.  Thank you very much!

Error in converting from CodeV file to Zemax. Maximum length for a string variable is exceeded.  Please shorten string and try again    SEQ Command: VUX   0.2862643455614489e-9 -0.002507618428442271 -0.01007430775580165 -0.02275146039691922 -0.04038529897597765 -0.06242137400922543 -0.08826487454143517 -0.1181757056085635 -0.1349076575530941 -0.152878222887056 -0.1719304103266932 -0.1914365142446497 -0.2096016968531782 -0.2187861418214183 -0.2257120003786426   How to debug this. Please let me know

I am wanting to use a macro to automatically run and store image simulations using a ZPL Macro. Does anyone have example code? 

Suppose I have a source (surface 1) and a detector (surface 2) in NSC mode. I’m trying to make a macro that shifts the detector along Z-axis using the command SETNSCPOSITION but it doesn't seems to work.The syntax is SETNSCPOSITION surface, object, code, valueCan someone please explains each keyword and how to use it?   The surface is the detector surface - 2 ?   What is the object?   code = 3 for Z   Value is the new position?\ THANKS 

Hello,          Is there a way to query the LDE in NS mode to get the column ints, doubles, or strings?  Additionally, query the column name of the row number? [Mod note: moved to more appropriate forum for ZPL-related discussions.] 

How do I retrieve coordinate break value (Tilt About X) from a particular surface number using GETVARDATA operand in a ZPL macro?

Hi,  I'm quite new to Zemax and was wondering if someone could assist me with processing some volume detector data.   I'm currently trying to reconstruct some data from the volume detector and display it in 3D using the Voxel Maker macro. However, the process tends to be quite slow and often crashes with large models.   I've written a Matlab script that will pass a binary array and compute the 3D voxelization. However, I need a way of exporting all of the detector cross-sections from Zemax, so that they can be passed by the script.   Does anyone know of a way I can do this? I know I can save the individual images seperately within the detector viewer, however, these images will contain the legend and axis titles. It will also be very time-consuming doing this for 100+ cross-sections.   Any help would be greatly appreciated!   Regards,  Callum   Here's the link to the macro I was using for reference:    How to show Detector Volume data in 3-D · MyZemax    

Can I judge that the ray coordinates of EXIT PUPIL from the Ray Tracing command in Zemax have all three information: Lens DistorStion, Ralative Illumination, and PSF?

How can only OBJECT's Clear Semi-Diameter be enlarged? I mean, I want to increase the size of the object's Clear Semi-Diameter without changing the size of the remaining Lens Surface. Can I know how with below System Explorer Setting? 1. Aperture Type "Float by Stop Size"2. Ray Aiming is "Paraxial"3. Convert Semi-Diameters to Circular Properties in the Lens Data Editor4. Change the field type to 'Object height'.  

Hello together,I’m trying to save Ray Database ZRD to a file in a loop for each angle in the following script:...for angle, -10, 10, 2                x = NSDD (1,0,0,0)                 SETNSCPOSITION 1,2,6,angle                PATHRAY$ = "Rayfile_" + $Str(angle) + ".ZRD"                NSTR 1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,PATHRAY$,"h133",1                 UPDATE ALL                PAUSE THREADSNEXT This just a part of my script, and exactly this part, namely the saving of ray database is not working. How can I save it, so I could have a few Ray Database files for different angles and open it later with the Ray Database Viewer? What is wrong here?Thank you in advance!CheersMax. 

Hello, I would like to use a macro to save images from Geometric Bitmap Image Analysis for different configuration.I wrote this macro in ZPL to save the images obtained for different configurations but it doesn’t work:! Read the # of configsNCONFIG = NCON()!Read pathsettingfiles$ = "...\Zemax\Configs\IMB.CFG"! Execute for each configFOR i, 1, NCONFIG, 1    ! Set config    SETCONFIG i    img_file$ = $STR(i) + ".png"    MODIFYSETTINGS settingfiles$, GBM_OUTPUT, img_file$    OPENANALYSISWINDOW "IBM"    PAUSE THREADS    NEXTPRINT "DONE!"The configuration changes and the Geometric Bitmap Image Analysis window opens up and displays the right image but nothing is saved. Moreover, the output file name keeps the initial name and it isn’t modifying for each configuration. Do you have any idea to save those images ? (the folder path doesn’t matter) I also wrote another ZPL macro which works and saves the image of the opened window following the different configuration but it still not really what

HiI'm trying coding a ZPL script to create an automatic optimization wizard table.My target optimization wizard table was show as below picture.   Here is producing optimization wizard table by running my ZPL script.Unfortunately, they have three differences by comparing the two created optimization wizard tables and making numbers on the above pictures. Here is a list of the parameter value for differences. This is show the partial screenshot of my ZPL script, the code also attached to set Merit Function.zip. What kind the command settings/paraments were missing in this ZPL script? That can be fixed for the three differences.

zemax有没有对序列的面和非序列的物体有没有唯一索引。 目前只有面号，物体号做索引，这个不唯一，当用户删除该面前面一个面号时，这个索引就不正确了。 zpl api都有这个问题