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THE ZEMAX 22.2 RELEASE IS LIVE

 * 5 months ago
   1 June 2022
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 * Alissa Wilczynski
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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 * The Zemax 22.2 release is here!
 * Learn from the experts in the 22.2 release webinar
 * Our Community Manager’s Take

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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 components have on the ray set.

Read the release notes linked below for full details: 

 * OpticStudio 22.2 Release Notes 
 * OpticsBuilder 22.2 Release Notes 
 * OpticsViewer 22.2 Release Notes 

 

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LEARN FROM THE EXPERTS IN THE 22.2 RELEASE WEBINAR

Join the product managers for OpticStudio, STAR, and OpticsBuilder to learn more
about all the new advancements in the 22.2 product major release. This thread
will be used to collect questions before the webinar, and to answer any
questions we received during the webinar. Feel free to post your questions! 

Be sure to subscribe to this thread if you want to see additional discussion
regarding this topic. The thread will be open to comments through Thursday, June
23rd.

This event has concluded but can be viewed at this link.

Date: Thursday, June 16th

Time: 6:00am PST & 11:00am PST

Presenters:

 * Tom Pickering, Manager Product Management
 * Esteban Carbajal, Senior Product Manager
 * Lisa Clauson, Senior Product Manager

 

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OUR COMMUNITY MANAGER’S TAKE

Our awesome senior engineer and community manager, @Allie, will tell you a bit
about her favorite new feature.


ALLIE, WHAT FEATURE ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT FOR THE 22.2 RELEASE?

I worked on a feature called “Convert ZRD or ZBF to TSV” to replace the existing
“Convert to MAT” functionality that is found in the “Convert file formats”
menu.  The old functionality would take a ZBF or ZRD and turn it into a
matrix inside Matlab, but it was missing some important data like wavelength for
each ray segment. 

The new “Convert ZRD or ZBF to TSV” creates a tab-delimited text file that can
be read into any post-processing software and contains a full data set for ZRD
and ZBF files.


HAVE ANY CUSTOMERS YOU WORKED WITH IN THE PAST REQUESTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS?  

I have worked with users who wanted this type of data in Python and Excel, so
they needed a more platform-agnostic solution. Beyond mathematical
post-processing, this also allows users to export ZBF details including the
complex electromagnetic field directly in a text format for import into other
systems like Lumerical. 

I worked with a customer previously who needed to predict and mitigate stray
energy in the form of X-rays. Their system was working outside the visible range
and had potentially negative health effects on operators and neighboring labs.
They were able to export their ZRD data to Matlab, where they identified rays
that hit a particular object and then needed to evaluate the ray landing
coordinates and intensity to determine risk.


IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE? 

I think the ZRD capability is really cool because we’re seeing an increasing
interest in stray light analysis across our customers. To perform the stray
light analysis, you need detailed information about each ray’s path. 

I built this feature entirely with the API - no developers needed! The team is
doing projects like this and sharing them in the Code Exchange section of the
community, so be sure to check it out (to see the full solutions, you have to be
logged in as a supported customer). We also have a KBA that describes how to
make a user analysis with the API and bring it into OpticStudio as your very own
custom button in the UI.

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 * 4 months ago
   17 June 2022

The webinar has concluded but the on-demand recording can be watched anytime at
this link:

https://www.zemax.com/blogs/webinars/what-is-new-in-zemax-22-2-product-release

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 * 4 months ago
   17 June 2022

@Ronald.Taylor

Q: Does the export to Speos tool handle lens models that have multiple black box
models?

A: Yes, the Export to Speos Lens System tool supports systems with multiple
Black Boxes. If you do however run into any issues with this, please contact our
support team.

 

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 * Tom Pickering
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 * 4 months ago
   17 June 2022

Q: Hi, how the ray bunch is generated in case of randomn bunch and the same
simulation (non-sequential, for ex. interferometric calc). What's the limit of
ray number ? Thank you for replay

A: In non-sequential mode, if you choose “Sobol” for the source sampling method,
you always get the same rays. But if you choose “Random”, it changes which rays
are traced each time. You can see this if you set a source to “Random” and then
update the layout plot over and over again - it chooses different rays every
time.

The Maximum Source File Rays In Memory parameter in the System Explorer sets the
maximum number of rays for each Source File object that will be held in memory.
The recommended value is 1,000,000 rays; the minimum value is 5,000 rays.

If you set this number too high in a non-sequential file, OpticStudio will have
to start writing the rays to disk and reading them out again, which causes
everything to slow down significantly. This number however depends on how much
RAM you've got.

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 * Esteban
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 * 4 months ago
   17 June 2022

@Andrey.Pravdivtsev 

 

Q: Are you going to add polychromatic spot diagrams as a criterion for
performance analyze?

 

A: We will look into adding more performance criterions as customers provide
feedback. Currently, you are able to set which wavelength and which field to
monitor the various metrics individually. 

Question? Email me: esteban.carbajal@ansys.com

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 * BOWEN
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 * 3 replies
 * 1 month ago
   15 September 2022

I’m looking at the page of updates:

https://community.zemax.com/opticstudio-release-notes-71

I’m confused - two separate listings seem to give a similar list of bug fixes. 

One is titled:  “Ansys Zemax OpticStudio 2022 R2.01 Release Notes” and the 2nd
is  “Optic Studio 22.2.1 Release Notes”.  Are these the same thing?  Are they
referring to differently licensed software?

thanks,

John

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 * Alissa Wilczynski
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 * 1 month ago
   15 September 2022

@BOWEN  You are correct that these two release notes are for separately licensed
software options. The “Ansys Zemax” content is for software purchased with the
new Ansys product packaging (available since July 2022), while the “OpticStudio
22.2.1” content is for those customers who have licenses for the Zemax packaged
products. A majority of our users will have the Zemax packaged products. If
you’re not sure, check your current software’s Help > About page.

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