11.18.24 โ€” KostaCLOUD Beta Release

Mon, Nov 18
  • Added CAD Import

    • Added Solidworks support

    • Added Parasolid support

    • Added STEP support

    • Added IGES support

    • Added non-interacting CAD support.

  • Added Thermal Calculations

    • CTE

    • Thermal Index

    • CHARMS models

  • Added more plots/analysis

    • Added Spot Size vs Field Plot

    • Added alpha version of Relative Illumination

      • Does not use Rimmer

      • Accounts for caustics

    • Added Wavefront statistics

  • Improved 3rd and 1st order calculations

    • Added temperature dependence to calculations

    • Improved sequentialization algorithm

  • Added radiometric calculations

    • Etendue

    • Flux

    • Irradiance

    • Intensity

    • Radiance

  • Added Pupil Options

    • "By Stop Aperture"

    • "Working f/#"

  • Improved Tolerancing analysis

    • Improved material variables

    • Calculates ETD for both tilt and decenter in unified definition for tolerancing

  • Added outlier pruning algorithm to spot diagram.

  • Cleaned up client-side UI

  • Fixed client-side memory leaks

  • Improved Optimization UI

  • Improved Math Element rules

  • Added quick spreadsheet-view of data

  • Added index material equation editor and fitting UI

  • Improved Variable update routine from local distances

  • Improved ZMX importer

    • Now properly accounts for Zemax Glass Catalog defined in ZMX file.

  • Added AGF importer

    • Now supports user defined and imported catalogs

  • Improved Material search algorithms

    • Unified Material Search

  • Added User defined materials

  • Improved Marginal Ray aiming

  • Fixed Stop as last element bug

  • Improved Material-Material interface code

  • Improved Latex & Math Parser

  • Added Powell Optimizer

  • Improved Deployment system

  • Added new Statistics

    • Max Magnitude statistic

    • Peak to Peak statistic

  • Improved Auto Optic-resize algorithms

  • Improved Numerical accuracy of Ray tracing

  • Improved Chief Ray and Marginal Ray solves

  • Fixed various pending state bugs

  • Extended environment variables to allow for future proofing and generic extension

  • Improved Ray-tracer local-variable footprint

  • Various runtime bug-fixes