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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.
Is it possible to calculate the 'field Type' 'Angle' (Code 0) from the 'field Type' 'Real Image Height' (Code 3) with a ZPL script? It is basically what the Zemax 'Field data editor' offers with the 'Convert to' option. However, I do not need to *convert* the field type, but just have to determine the value. With 'Single Ray Trace' as well as with the operand 'RAID', I only get one angle. But I need the two angles as defined for the 'field Type' 'Angle' Thank you and best regards, Christof.
Does anyone have an OpticStudio macro which converts the disortions written out using the DISA and DISG commands into radial distortion coefficients (k1, k2), which are typically used in camera systems?
Sometimes, we may design the system starting from the 'image' back to the 'object'. For example, this is often the case for those systems that are designed to be viewed by eye, like AR/VR, HUD. In this case, normally, if we want to check the relative illumination, we need to reverse the system to check because the tool 'Relative Illumination' only calculates that on last surface in the system.Here we will provide another way to calculate it using a macro so that you don't need to reverse the system.Note here we at the same time is also demoing how you can verify the calculation theory of the RI. RI is actually much easier to calculate if the system is reversely designed! First, by reading the following forum post, we know that relative illumination at each field is exactly linearly dependent to the area of the beam in cosine space in image space.So, here is the plan. We want to write a macro to calculate the beam area in cosine space for each field, normalize it, and then get the the R
I will share examples of using ZPLM as a workaround to solve some problems that I see/ you may experience in my daily support 😀.
Hi everyone,In the spot diagram, how it automatic calculate 5 fields? And how it get the five coordinates on the IMA?Thanks,Xiaolei
Hello. I guess my question is fairly straight forward. However, I am not very used to any optimization procedures, so any help will be appreciated. Assuming I have a source and a detector, and some surfaces inbetween in a non-sequential setting. I need to write a merit funtion that maximizes flux on the detector - but only for rays hitting a specific surface in between source and detector. While this is easily done by filter strings in a simple detector view, I was unsure on how to implement this in the optimization. Therefore Zemax provided some help a while ago in form of this ZPLM operand detector = PVHX() clear = NSDD(1,0,0,0) NSTR 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 'Test.ZRD', 'H4' ZRDPLAYBACK 'Test.ZRD', 1, detector, 1 X = NSDD(1, detector, -3, 0) OPTRETURN 0, X So I specify my detector in H(x) and then clear all detectors, run a raytrace with the filter string applied (in this case hit surface 4) and point it back to the detector. So now this returns the rays hitting the detector under con
A user asked why when using ZPL macro to save the Cross Section Row Coherent Irradiance data from Detector Viewer, the .txt file he got does not match the information displayed in the Text tab of the Detector Viewer. Instead of seeing a 2-column data of X position versus Irradiance, he kept seeing 3-column data displaying “Spatial Frequency, X and Y” This is because in his code, the Configuration file is saved with the settings displayed in the Graph tab of the Detector Viewer, where the Cross Section Row is data value #4 in the “Show As:” dropdown list, (the index starts at 0). However, the GETTEXTFILE keyword is retrieving data from the Text tab of the Detector Viewer, where there isn’t a data value #4 in the “Show As:” dropdown list, so OpticStudio simply saves the data from the last available data value #3 which is the “Geometric MTF”. In order to save the data for the Cross Section Row irradiance, you need to use MODIFYSETTINGS
I use Detectorviewers in text mode to export the results of my simulations to disk.Futher processing is done via python, where the plain textfile gets parsed.I prefer to not using the ZOS API as this limits me in the python verison i use. Problem is: The Detector Viewer numbers are really error-prone as sometimes i close a window and open another one and the numbers i have to put into SAVEWINDOW keyword are just wrong by then.I would prefer using the detector number instead using SAVEDETECTOR keyword. But this saves in some binary format i did not find any specs upon for reading that in. Is there any description on the DDR/DDx file format?Is there any way to obtaining the detector data into python? Best regardsOlli
Hi guys, I am new to learning ZPL. I have a list of macros that I am tasked to write at work. Here are the list below with their purpose. I was hoping anyone have written similar macro, p[lease share or give me tips on how to write them. Thanks.Compute the paraxial ABCD matrix between 2 surfaces. Bend a lens. Given one radius, compute the other radius to maintain the focal length. Macro to plot and optionally list the distortion over the full image format Calculate relative or absolute dn/dT values based on the Schott equations Draw the aperture(s) associated with a surface. Define a macro function to compute the clearance between two surfaces, including the sags of the two surfaces Compute the angular boresight error in object space of the system due to the decentration of a surface or a group of surfaces. Compute the edge thickness between two surfaces at a specified x,y location Plot the FOV points Tabulate the focal lengths of each component in the specified surface range. A compon
Hello all,I am a student in internship and I need to use ZPL to automate my system. I have a system with LED, which I am optimizing. After this optimization I have to measure the power received on the detector for different Z positions (34 positions).I do not know how to make a list of my different Z positions, how to change the value of the Z position for my detector and how to retrieve the value of the power received on my detector.Thank you in advance,Léo
I have a very simple question. How could I define a source Gaussian out from a single mode fiber, which core size is 4 micro, NA =0.12. I know the beam size (diameter) should be set to be MFD, how to put the parameter for position? should I put the parameter of the position as Rayleigh distance Zr? or should I use MFD/(2*NA)? Thanks for your answer in advance.
I would like to create a new text file from inside of a ZPL macro for saving data while the macro runs. I see the OPEN command, but it requires the file to already be created. I do not see any keyword for creating the new file. Is there a way to create new files from inside of a running Macro? Thanks Chris Buchholz
This code calculates grid distortion based on centroid. The advantage is it works for systems where the chief ray cannot reach image surface. Note that, although chief ray doesn't need to reach image surface, there should still be some rays reaching the image surface. This only works when the field type is either Angle or Object Height. Another useful points of this tool is it shows data on image coordinate, not object coordinate as in the native Grid Distortion analysis.In the generated layout, you can see red and blue marks.Red marks are the centroid position of each sampled field. Blue marks are the 'reference' that serves as definition of 'no distortion'.Note Red marks are the ray-tracing result of your system and cannot be changed. However, the blue marks is defined by ABCD matrix, which can be user-defined. In other words, there is no a standard of 'no distortion'.The macro will automatically find a reasonable ABCD matrix just like the native Grid Distortion, but you can definit
How does one do a bulk raytrace in ZPL, similar to pressing the “Ray Trace” button in regular, non-sequential mode. From the help files, it looks like RAYTRACE and RAYTRACEX only traces one particular ray, which is not useful for determining the total illumination on a detector. Thanks!
Good morning, I am designing a broadband spectrometer (currently in sequential mode). I think someone may answer the following questions way faster than I can. I am interested in measuring the spot size in the dispersion direction (therefore not as a general RMS parameter, as it is usually given). Is there a way in Zemax to automatically measure it through the merit function? I know that the optimization wizard allows to choose a X Weight and an Y Weight. Is there any reference I can read of the topic? Can you advice any specific reference on how to relate the calculated RMS spot size in Zemax to the spectrometer resolution? Thank you very much, Cinzia
Dear support team, I am working with a complex off-axis optics with several stray-light baffles. I need to determine the vignetting as a function of the two field coordinates. The first surface of my afocal system is the aperture stop. With vignetting I mean a geometrical quantity defined as the number of rays from one field that reach the image divided by the number of rays that pass my aperture stop. I think this is basically what the Zemax 'Vignetting Plot' does. But: 'This feature is appropriate for rotationally symmetric lenses and fields' only. The Footprint Diagram determines the 'percentage of rays through', which should be the same. Is this correct? Is there an Operand available, that calculates the vignetting according to what these two plots do and which I can calculate over a 2D-field with ZPL? I found the IMAE Operand: 'The IMAE operand estimates the efficiency of an optical system by launching many rays into the entrance pupil; computing the fraction of rays t
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
Hi! I’m calculating the energy inside a surface with LEDS with different detectors: volume detector, sphere as detector, volume pipe as detector… but I can’t get the same values across them… I don’t know why if I hace the same system…From objects as a detector I get total power, but from volume detector total flux (all of them in mW); is this the same?When I take a value from the matrix in volume detector, what is this? flux, power¿?This is my file, I calculate the three detectors individuallyThanks in advance,Carmen
Hello OS-community,how to write a ZPL-code printing elements of a single or multi-dimensioned array (ie. Array(i), Arrax(i,j)) in one line in the output of the text viewer?Thanks
I am wanting to use a macro to automatically run and store image simulations using a ZPL Macro. Does anyone have example code?
Hello, I'm looking for a way to write to a .csv file. I found the keywords for OPEN and READ to work with a data file, but did not find how WRITE to a csv file. Can someone help please? Raphael Levy
