K2realm Extensions News & Announcements
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.
Read moreMany 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our multiple glass lists feature is included in the new K2 extension bundle. Try it out now with our free trial offer.
This K2 Extensions update offers the ability to:
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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Schedule A DemoWe’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.
Want to change your optical design models more efficiently? Try the interactive viewer with K2realm’s Extensions for CODE V.
Imagine tolerancing your optical design 10X faster!
See how K2realm’s Extensions help CODE V users reduce a 20-hour tolerance run to 1-2 hours!
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.
