2021 International Optical Design Conference: A Fully Virtual Event
For a while, the OSA thought the 2021 IODC conference would be hybrid, with both an online and in-person component. However, in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, it will instead go entirely virtual this year.
That means no more excuses for missing the conference. It also means no excuses for missing an important session: you will be able to either attend sessions live online or view recordings of them later.
Many CODE V Power Users eventually gravitate to writing scripts or macros to refine their projects. If you’re already writing scripts in CODE V’s Macro+, you know how useful it can be. But you also know that it can be incredibly time-consuming; you’re probably so used to the lengthy, iterative process that it’s second nature to you.
Spend Less Time on Macros & More Time on What Matters to You!
But CODE V users can now access a new editor through K2 Extensions, and our current users are seriously excited. They’re discovering that the debugger reduces macro writing time, which frees them up to focus on what truly matters to them—finding optical design solutions—rather than spending all their time sorting through code.
Less Time Checking Code, More Time Developing Your Lens Design.
CODE V’s Glass Expert provides essential features for optical designers
Glass choice is one of the central components of lens design. Yet lens design can be anything but straightforward. Further, lens material selection is a tedious task, and a human can only focus on it for so long before missing options.
Built-in optical design tools like Glass Expert are now well known to be able to save time and energy during glass selection. They automate the process, and glass selection algorithms are able to find more lens material combinations than a human can.
Creating different lists for different elements in Glass Expert
CODE V’s Glass Expert allows you to automatically select optimal lens materials. It lets you create a single master list of glasses from any combination of available glass catalogs for your given set of parameters. Now, however, designers can work even smarter by defining multiple lists for different elements.
Whether you are working on mobile phone cameras, self-driving cars, or aerospace applications, you may have different requirements for glass materials for different elements in your optical system. This once meant you would have to run Glass Expert multiple times. And running Glass Expert multiple times means that glass selection takes longer.
At least, that’s how it used to be.
CODE V Optical Design Software’s Glass Expert with K2 Support
At K2realm, we love the power of Glass Expert. In an effort to better support the program, we met your requests to create a feature that will allow you to define multiple glass lists in a single Glass Expert run.
We know that your lens designs can have added requirements due to environmental or fabrication concerns. K2 Extensions allows Glass Expert to incorporate these additional requirements in a single, efficient run.
Specify different glass lists for one or more elements
Use a subset of glass materials that are suitable for molding aspheres
Use one list for elements that may be exposed to the environment, and another for elements protected within housing
Use a separate list of glasses available in large pressings for larger elements
A Closer Look at K2realm’s multiple glass lists feature
Mitigate differences in environmental conditions
K2 Extensions can handle differences in environmental conditions. If, for instance, you have a system in which only the front lens is exposed to air, you’d have to either run Glass Expert a second time to create a glass list for that element or manually change the glass out. K2 Extensions automates this in a single run.
Work with differences in terms of fabrication requirements
Aspheres and moldability
Aspheres may go through a molding process for which the glass choices are limited. In this case, you may want the ability to specify a different list for elements that are aspheres.
Large elements and availability
Meanwhile, some large elements require a larger pressing, and there are limited glasses available in larger pressings. You may want to create a separate list for any lenses requiring a large pressing.
K2 Extensions lets you get specific and stay in control when it comes to fabrication requirements.
Other K2 support for global optimization: Our Glass Map and athermalization interface
We’ve been working with Glass Expert for years now. It’s an essential, powerful tool that optical designers use all the time to help with color/dispersion correction. Our goal is to streamline the user experience for lens designers as much as possible. Here are some of the other K2 Extensions features we offer:
The Glass Map for glass selection in optical system design
Glass Expert allows you to choose glasses from any catalog, in any combination. We have added a way for you to use a visual interface — an interactive glass map — to choose glasses. The glass map allows you to control selections by either clicking on the map or through the use of advanced filters. For many K2 Extensions users, this convenience makes Glass Expert use more streamlined.
Interface for the athermalization of optical systems
Of all optical design software packages, we find that CODE V introduces the best capabilities. And to bring those capabilities to the user, we provide tools that streamline workflow and increase productivity. To this end, we are very proud of our athermalization interface, which works with the ENVPIK macro, a fantastic algorithm from the Optical Solutions Group.
ENVPIK automatically simulates the thermal expansion of seated elements in machined housing. K2 Extensions packages ENVPIK’s numerous inputs into a clean, simple UI. It checks any needed glass data for you, which is crucial when optimizing with Glass Expert.
CODE V’s athermalizing feature has long been the most powerful one out there. In conjunction with ENVPIK and K2 Extensions, it’s now also the tool that’s easiest to use.
Work smarter. Optimize better.
We offer a free trial download of our optical design software because we think you are going to love our extension. Try K2 Extensions out today.
We’ve recently taken a more in depth approach to K2realm Extensions feature Automatic Reports. In this Enewsletter learn more about our Automatic Reports feature. By adding this automation to your optical design workflow that can save you time and meet any deadline. This feature will copy / paste selected optical design analyses charts into a Microsoft Word, PPT, or Excel export. Select your choice of export type by clicking on the icon button in the top menu bar. Read more
Want quick access to the most important optimization data for your lens design?
The Optimization Dashboard visualizes the per cycle data in sortable tables and charts to highlight key variables and constraints, to help you make the best design decisions.
Try the Extensions for CODE V today for an optimized experience.
New plug-in for Synopsys’ CODE V software users adds functionality in 3D interactive modeling, analysis, tolerancing, and optimization integrated with CODE V’s core environment
Los Angeles, CA — August 6, 2018
K2realm.com, a third-party optical design software company, has launched a new product called Extensions Pack for CODE V. The product is a subscription-based plugin for Synopsys’ CODE V® optical design software that accelerates the design process through intuitive interfaces for data access, automated design tasks, and multi-core Monte Carlo tolerancing. Read more
As the launch and release of K2realm’s Extension Pack for CODE V approaches, we will be offering live demos at several trade shows throughout 2018. Read more
We are close to releasing our first commercial version of K2realm Extensions for CODE V. If you would like to contribute to the release content, download a trial version, and let us know what you need. We would love to get your feedback.