NOTE: In order to try LensForge you must request a demo license using the form available HERE.
LensForge is the first lens design program for Mac OS X. LensForge is a great utility created for professional and amateur lens designers, amateur telescope makers, and others.
Already the features of LensForge make it valuable for exploring telescope and eyepiece designs.
Spot diagrams, ray fans update in real time. Built-in glass library. New features are being added.
Here are some key features of "LensForge":
General features:
· Object-oriented foundation
· Universal Binary
· Macintosh native user interface
· Drag and drop
Support:
· E-mail support
· New features
Surface shapes:
· Planar
· Spherical
· General conicoid
· Aspheric
· Bivariate polynomial
Sources:
· Vignetting factors
Automation:
· Solves and pickups
· Sliders
· Merit functions
· Optimization
Coordinate system control:
· ZEMAX-style coordinate break
Glasses:
· Extensive built-in library
· Import glasses from AGF files
· Define new glasses
· Plot index vs wavelength
Graphics:
· Planar view
· Solid view
· Queriable plots
· Multiplot
Diagnostic plots:
· Ray fan
· OPD fan
· Distortion
· Field curvature
· OSC fan
· Spot diagram
· Geometrical OFT & MTF
· Thru-focus GOFT & GMTF
Aberration analysis:
· Seidel aberrations
· Spherical aberration
· Coma
· Astigmatism
· Field curvature
· Distortion
· Axial color
· Lateral color
File Formats (for supported surface types):
· CODE V (read)
· OSLO (read)
· ZEMAX (read and write)
· ZEMAX glass catalogs
· ZEMAX lens catalogs
Requirements:
· G3/G4/G5/Intel
Limitations:
· Saving is disabled.
· 30 days trial period.
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Bug fixes:
· Wave setting for spot diagram was not saved.
· GUI lag when switching between Field and Beam source types on spot diagram.
