LensForge 1.2.9

LensForge 1.2.9 lends you the chance of using the premier lens design program for Mac OS X, which is a tool for professional and amateur lens designers, experimental physicists, telescope makers, and others.

Major Features: 

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