Question I want to change the thickness/position of a group of surfaces (or a component group) without affecting the surfaces after the group. When I try to do adjust the first surface of the component group, all surfaces after that initial surface are affected. How do I restrict the thickness...
Question I want to use the status bar to show the result of a special calculation that I create. How can I do this? Will the status bar be updated on a continuous basis? Synopsis Using the status bar to show the results if user calculations Symptoms This is certainly possible to do in OSLO. There...
Question When I attempt to add a Coordinates Pickup or Coordinate Return on a surface, OSLO either crashes, hangs or does bizarre things. I am using OSLO 6.4.4. What is wrong? Synopsis OSLO crashes or becomes unstable when changing Coordinates data Symptoms This is a known problem in OSLO 6.4.4 and...
Question The OSLO License works OK when logged onto PC as Administrator. Why does it fail when logged in as a User? Synopsis OSLO License works OK when logged onto PC as Administrator, but fails when logged in as a User Solution Each time OSLO is launched, it attempts to read the license...
Question How do I constrain the angular magnification of my system during optimization? Synopsis Method to constrain the angular magnification during optimization Solution The most direct way to constrain the system's angular magnification is by selecting the System Operand "amag" and entering the...
Question I notice that the a_menu.ccl file defines the OSLO menu and toolbar structure. This means that it can be altered by any user. I also note that there is a special text window toolbar and graphics window toolbar, each named _USER_TOOLS_ . How do I get these toolbars to appear and how do I...
Question We were trying to import a WYKO .int file for a customer. Our older WYKO 6000 interferometers did not have an option to output a file that OSLO would read. Our new WYKO RTI6100 interferometer, which runs WYKO Vision32 (2.303) does have ASCII file output, but not for OSLO, only CODE V and...
Question Whenever I trace a chief ray, it appears as though the radius of my reference sphere is calculated to be infinite even though I have set the position of the reference sphere to follow the location of the exit pupil. What is wrong? Synopsis Reference sphere radius always calculated to be...
Question What is the definition of DN? I notice that if I load N-BK7 from the Schott catalog, convert it into a model glass, and mark the dispersion (DN) of the glass as a variable, the initial DN is calculated as DN = 0.246045 while the VNBR = 64.16641. How do you calculate one from the other? ...
Question I have OSLO Premium 6.2.2a installed and I know notice that some of my menu options are missing. What is the problem? Synopsis OSLO Premium shows OSLO Standard menus Symptoms "There are 4 items (instead of 6 items) shown in the "Tolerance" menu (even disabled items are counted). The second...
