Programming Zemax OpticStudio
Articles in this section provide information on all of the programming tools available within Ansys Zemax OpticStudio. OpticStudio provides three main programming languages: the Zemax Programming Language (ZPL), the Application Programming Interface (API), and DLLs (user defined plugins). Programming tools may be used to automate tasks or extend software functionality. Articles in this section focus on using these programming tools for system setup, analysis, or optimization.
- Accessing the Ray Database with the ZOS-API using MATLAB - webinar
- Analyzing hologram construction fringes with a ZOS-API User Analysis
- Automated recurring documentation for optical designs with ZOS-API and LaTeX
- Basic method of performing system analysis in ZOS-API
- Batch Processing of Ray Trace Data using ZOS-API in MATLAB or Python
- Connect to OpticStudio from Python with the ZOS-API Interactive Extension
- Creating a Standalone Application: MATLAB & ZOS-API
- Custom DLLs in OpticStudio: An overview of user-defined surfaces, objects, and other DLL types
- DDE and ZOS-API: Why and how switch to the ZOS-API
- Generate the executable in Python for ZOS-API User Extensions
- Generating a list of output data types for each analysis in the ZOS-API
- Getting started with Python
- How to add radial ripple to a sequential surface using the ZOS-API
- How to call a ZPL macro from within a ZPL macro
- How to compile a User-Defined DLL
- How to connect to the ZOS-API with the Interactive Extension using MATLAB
- How to convert any sequential surface to a Grid Sag Surface using the ZOS-API
- How to create a User Analysis using ZOS-API
- How to create a user defined scattering function
- How to create a User Operand: Thickness control operand
- How to create a User-Analysis: Time-of-flight analysis
- How to create a user-defined solve using the Zemax Programming Language (ZPL)
- How to create a User-Extension: Converting from Chebyshev to Extended Polynomial
- How to create binary IMA and BIM files
- How to debug a DLL or EXE
- How to debug a ZPL macro
- How to open consecutively-named lens files using a ZPL macro
- How to read a static data file into a user-defined surface
- How to set solves from ZPL
- How to update and change the settings of a graphic window from ZPL