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增加了不少新功能,特别是现在可以直接评价afocal系统了,不需要再加paraxial面。
还有一个就是可以用multi-configuration对中间进行评价和计算 。
September 19, 2005
New Features
We have launched the new ZEMAX Knowledge Base! The KB includes numerous application articles and tutorials to help you make the most of ZEMAX.
New afocal system mode! ZEMAX can now analyze, optimize, and tolerance systems which are afocal (collimated light) in image space without the need for an auxiliary paraxial lens surface. ZEMAX supports radians, milliradians, microradians, degrees, arc-minutes, and arc seconds for transverse aberrations. All defocus features now support diopters for afocal systems. The new feature is fully integrated into all ZEMAX features as appropriate. .
Optimization operands ANAR, ANAX, ANAY, ANAC, ANCX, and ANCY have been added to optimize afocal systems for radial, x, and y aberrations in cosine space, using either chief or centroid references.
Afocal mode default merit functions and tolerance criteria have been added.
The tolerance feature now supports an option to ignore all compensators.
Tolerances on Semi-Diameter values may now be defined using operand TSDI.
Tolerance settings may now be saved and loaded in a file with a user selected name.
The TOLR optimization operand now accepts an integer indicating which tolerance settings file should be used. Multiple distinct tolerance setting files may be used within the same merit function.
Three new tolerance criteria are available for tolerancing angular aberrations for afocal systems.
The Default Merit Function dialog now supports the choice of all or any one configuration.
Optimization operands MTHA, MTHS, and MTHT have been added to compute Huygens MTF.
The DENC and DENF optimization operands now optionally support use of the Huygens PSF.
New optimization operand BFSD computes best fit sphere data.
A new Multi-Configuration tool creates a configuration that models a subset system from a reference configuration. The subset system is defined by selection of an object, stop, and image surface from the reference configuration. This feature is very useful for optimizing and analyzing the image performance between any two surfaces of a larger system.
Multi-Configuration operand TCEX has been added to control the thermal coefficient of expansion on surfaces.
Multi-Configuration operand AFOC has been added to control the new afocal mode feature.
The polarization pupil map can now sum the electric field from selected configurations. This is particularly useful for analysis of birefringent systems. The handedness of elliptical polarization states is now indicated on the pupil map drawing with a small arrow.
The Y-Ybar diagram now indicates the surface range, labels the surface vertices, and supports a text listing.
The various Spot Diagram features now all support drawing of the Airy Disk reference simultaneously with the scale bar, box, cross, and circle scale options.
When using a file for the fiber mode in POP analysis, the surface vertex may now be selected as a reference point.
The detector viewer plots now will not override the user defined maximum scale for the plots, regardless of the magnitude of the data.
Detector volume objects are now drawn on the shaded model plot.
The maximum number of rays to hold in memory for source file objects is now a user definable parameter.
The editors now support lower case text for comments.
The tilt and decenter tool has new options to specify coordinate break surface colors and comments.
The tool which converts sequential to non-sequential systems now converts optical coating data.
Pickup solves in the Lens Data Editor are now automatically renumbered when cutting and pasting groups of surfaces.
ZPL now supports comments after any valid line using the new "#" comment symbol
All surface and system properties may now be set using the greatly expanded SETSURFACEPROPERTY and SETSYSTEMPROPERTY keywords.
User defined NSC object DLLs now support a "safe data" initialization.
The maximum number of User Defined Operand data items has been increased from 51 to 1001.
ModifySettings extension command has been added to modify settings file parameters.
Extensions may now use the application names "ZEMAX1" and "ZEMAX2" to distinguish between multiple copies of ZEMAX running at the same time.
Bug Fixes
The geometric encircled energy reference point was not being computed correctly when "middle" was selected as the reference.
Use of the relative reference for the inside of column in the NSC editor could cause a program crash.
The TCE pick up solve was not renumbering correctly when surfaces were inserted or deleted.
The Seidel aberrations were not considering the ignore surface setting.
Some problems with the auto-thermal tool erasing PRAM operands has been fixed.
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