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ZPL Macro for Picking up 'Before surface tilt/decenter'

  • January 26, 2025
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Lydon Wong

Hello Optics Team!

 

I meet a question when writing ZPL. There is a mirror-reflected system and I would like to do the sensitivity analysis on some tolerances. When it comes to decenter, I found that it was difficult to pick up a surface’s ‘Before surface tilt/decenter’. There is a function of picking up ‘After surface tilt/decenter’ (SURP 66) but no such a function for ‘Before surface tilt/decenter’.

Anyone have some experience about it? Thank you!

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Lydon Wong
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  • January 26, 2025

Also, if someone knows how to set the before surface tilt/decenter pickup in Zemax itself (not Macro), that’s also very helpful for me. Thank you!


David.Nguyen
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  • January 28, 2025

@Lydon Wong 

 

I don’t know the answer to your question. It might just not be available in ZPL yet.

However, you can also tilt and decenter your surfaces with Coordinate Break and there is might be easier to setup ZPL pickups.

From the Help File:

But also:

I hope this helps and take care,

 

David

 


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