Question When I attended the recent TracePro training course, there was mention of references that related surfaces cleanliness levels (specified by MIL-STD-1246C) to cleanroom classifications (specified by FED-209D).What I am looking for is research that was published on how to link MIL-STD-1246...
Question As an inexperienced optical designer, I have little idea what degree of smoothing (i.e. what range of waist radii) is generally appropriate to provide the most realistic answers. I'm sure there's no one right answer, but are there any rules of thumb one can use to determine an appropriate...
Virtual servers provide several advantages for managing data: company personnel set up their software to work with the virtual server the virtual servers can be moved to different physical servers to manage storage the company personnel are not disrupted by these server moves, the reference to the...
Question "I have performed a Grid Raytrace in my model, and TracePro is reporting multiple "overlapping object" error messages. I have looked over the geometry, and there are several coincident surfaces, but no overlapping objects. What is causing these error messages, and how can this be...
Question I edited a Texture file in Excel, saved it as a text file, then tried to use it in TracePro, but I get an error message that TracePro fails to read the Texture File. How can I resolve this? Synopsis Texture file fails to read Solution Open the Texture File in a Text Editor application...
Question I am unable to change the color of an object I imported into TracePro from a CAD file. How can this be resolved? Synopsis Unable to change the color of an object imported from a CAD file Symptoms OBSERVATION
Question Would you please explain the coherence between the saved total lumens and the number of ray traced. It could give some problems when you use the file in a calculation program. (See attached file: halfrun.ies)(See attached file: fullrun.ies) Synopsis Analysis results after cancelling...
Question I want to make a surface which has some scattered transmittance. So I made a Fresnel type surface with varing BTDF ratio. Comparing the ray tracing results of different BTDF ratios, I found all the results are the same. Please let me know how should I express the nature of the rough...
Question When running long scheme macros, I get the error message "out of heap space" or "free store overflow" in the Message/Macro window, and the macro fails to run to completion." How can I resolve this? Synopsis Scheme Memory management - resolution of "out of heap space" and "free store...
Question I imported a CAD file into TracePro, but the local origin defined in the CAD Program is lost. Now I want to scale and rotate objects relative to each other, but it doesn't work right. How can I resolve this? Synopsis Orientation is lost for objects imported Symptoms When objects are...
