Question I would like to change the colors of the rays that are drawn in the standard lens drawings. By default, green, blue, red,...etc. is chosen. How do I assign rays specific colors? Synopsis Changing the ray colors in a lens drawing Solution Note that fans of rays in lens drawings are drawn...
Question I want to temporarily turn the graphics scale bar off in some of my graphics drawings. When I set the OSLO preference "graphics_labels" to be "off" using either: set_preference graphics_labels off; or, stp glab off; the graphics scale disappears from the shaded solid drawings, but it...
Petzval is a starting design for a large aperture narrow-field photographic lens. The Petzval design has been around for more than one hundred years, and is still widely used. The Petzval lens is a very old design form ( > 150 years!) that is still a mainstay in lens libraries. The original Petzval...
Question I would like to get paraxial PY and PUY at different surfaces as well as real ray trace values. How do I extract ray data within a CCL or SCP macro command? Please note that OSLO contains two macro-programming languages:
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Question "It is possible to save the ray data of a ray trace as a text-file. I wonder, is it possible to load (import) the ray data again? This would be very important for me because I want to manipulate the rays with DOE's (diffractive optical elements). Since there is not such a function in...
This is the first video in the Basic OSLO EDU Exercises series, a hands-on introduction to OSLO using the free OSLO EDU edition. If you're a student meeting lens design software for the first time, or an engineer evaluating OSLO's workflow, start here.
