"No. Only CSV export is supported. You have to convert to a special format yourself." -Sorry, I meant that can you use zemax dat files as source of the rays used in the tool? Or How accurate you can specify the source of the rays in the tool? Some source files contain 5million ormore rays...

To be more precise: the Optics workbench is licensed by the LGPL V3.0 That said, it'd be much more fair to give any such modifications to the public to benefit from, even if they are meant to be used only privately. But it's not strictly required by the GPL. This is right. The (L)GPL should encourag...

Is it possible to use eg. Zemax .DAT files or Photopia files for ray tracing or is it too difficult? No. Only CSV export is supported. You have to convert to a special format yourself. Can this tool be used in commercial use ? Yes, but if you modify the workbench, you have to make the modifications...

maxwxyz wrote: ↑Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:47 pm nice!
Do you know why the simulation on and Ray (sun light) icons render differently in FreeCAD than when viewing the files normally (there is no transparency)?

Yes, the sun ray icon looks bad in FreeCAD. I don't know why.

Lets bring some more light into the Optics workbench https://github.com/chbergmann/OpticsWorkbench/raw/main/examples/example_candle.png A new feature https://github.com/chbergmann/OpticsWorkbench/raw/main/icons/emitter.svg Optical Emitter has been added Rays are created on selected faces: https://gi...

Update: The workbench got nicer icons, especially for dark themes from maxwxyz and separators between them from tbMaker1

I think some kind of illumination plot would be nice, like the bottom graph, but extended to 2D. However, in this case, probably the way rays are made should be modified, and not in python, because it would need a lot more rays. I modified the 3D Plot feature to display only a 2D graph if coordinat...

https://github.com/chbergmann/OpticsWorkbench/raw/main/icons/ExportCSV.svg Ray Hits to spreadsheet Creates a spreadsheet with the coordinates of all hits of all beams in all absorbers. Go to the Spreadsheet workbench ofr doing further data processing or export the data to a file. https://github.com...

The workbench has new features:

3D Plot

I have one concern, when I go to cut out physical parts I'm concerned I might need a little tolerance for them to fit together during assembly. Would it be hard to add a margin/tolerance parameter to the notch connector tool so it makes the cuts slightly larger than needed? This is not so easy. Wha...