LensForge 1.2.1

LensForge 1.2.1 is an effective program for professional and amateur lens designers, experimental physicists, telescope makers, and others for Lens design.

Major Features:

1. General features
   • Object-oriented foundation
   • Universal Binary
   • Macintosh native user interface
   • Drag and drop
2. Support: E-mail support
   • Surface shapes
   • Planar
   • Spherical
   • General conicoid
   • Aspheric
   • Bivariate polynomial
3. Sources: Vignetting factors
4. Automation
   • Solves and pickups
   • Sliders
   • Merit functions
   • Optimization
   • Coordinate system control
   • ZEMAX-style coordinate break
5. Glasses
   • Extensive built-in library
   • Import glasses from AGF files
   • Define new glasses
   • Plot index vs wavelength
6. Graphics
   • Planar view
   • Solid view
   • CAD file export (DXF)
   • Queriable plots
   • Multiplot
7. Diagnostic plots
   • Ray fan
   • OPD fan
   • Distortion
   • Field curvature
   • OSC fan
   • Spot diagram
   • Geometrical OTF & MTF
   • Thru-focus GOTF & GMTF
   • Diffraction OTF & MTF
   • Huygens-Fresnel calculations
8. Aberration analysis: Seidel aberrations
   • Spherical aberration
   • Coma
   • Astigmatism
   • Field curvature
   • Distortion
   • Axial color
   • Lateral color
9. File Formats (for supported surface types)
   • CODE V (read)
   • OSLO (read)
   • ZEMAX (read and write)
   • ZEMAX glass catalogs
   • ZEMAX lens catalogs

Enhancements: Bug fixes: Index plotter window, once closed, would not work if re-opened.

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4
• G3/G4/G5/Intel processor