Optical Research Associates' CODE V 10.2 Delivers Designed to Enhance Ease of Use

By DE Editors

CODE V 10.2, the newest release of the optical design software from Optical Research Associates (ORA), delivers a number of enhancements designed to simplify its use and provide greater flexibility.

CODE V 10.2 introduces improved ray tracing algorithms that the company says increase robustness when designing optical systems with extreme aspheres, hyper-hemispherical fields of view (fisheye lenses), and highly tilted components. Custom macro writing has also been simplified in CODE V 10.2 to allow users to specify an external program as the default text editor. 

CODE V 10.2 delivers expanded graphical output options, including the use of defaults for producing optical system drawings with the View Lens feature. File conversion enhancements allow all CODE V plots to be directly saved in a number of common graphics file formats.

CODE V 10.2 is also designed to make solving tolerancing problems easier with an expanded range of built-in performance metrics. These metrics can be used as is or customized.

For more information, visit ORA.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.