Product updates
Simon Tsaoussis
Simon Tsaoussis

7.1.24 — KostaCLOUD Beta Release

Mon, Jul 1

  • Added Field-Marginal Ray aiming.

  • Added Auto-Aperture Rescaling.

  • Added Reference Surfaces (See slanted surface in color by segment below).

  • Added Glass Optimization Engine and Material Operands

    • Added ability to create Catalogs and Optimization ranges.

      • UI for selecting Materials (See Video 1)

      • UI for sorting/searching Materials

      • Create Interpolated glasses

      • Added ability to upload user-defined .AGF files and create custom glass data.

      • Added "to nearest glass" function.

  • Added Ability to image on Petzval Surface or User Defined surfaces (See below)

  • Update Material Library to include all thermal and glass density information.

  • Improved Constraints API and added Odometry Constraint to allow for surface-surface references and keep the overall angle of the system conserved. (See video 3)

  • Design Reports

    • Sag Table

    • Single Ray Report, Visualization of which ray to pick.

    • Print out Refractive indicates, wavelengths fields, FOV, first order properties.

    • System Summary Report (See Image 2 below)

    • Paraxial QTYs

  • Fixed various Ray Tracing bugs.

  • Fixed Duplicate Workspaces

  • Fixed Select and Multiselect update bug.

  • Drag a Plot into the QuickDash needs to go away when first plot dragged

    • Allow rearranging of plots (See Video 2)

    • Moved Horizontal scrollbar to top to avoid clicking alternate workspaces.

    • Additionally allow rearranging of plots

    • Auto update all other clients on New Plot arrangement

  • Added Document Share capability

  • Added Duplicate Projects

  • Added Move Folder function

  • Added Move Project function

  • Added proper permissions management

  • Created page with uptime stats - status.kostacloud.com

  • Improved performance for thousands of Objects in Workspace.

  • Improved Lens Insertion performance.

  • Improved Mesh Generation performance by a factor of 10.

  • Improved Plot Generation performance by a factor of 7.

  • Reworked Optical Table backend with new Constraints

  • Lots of bug fixes.

  • Ray Failure, not able to plot, check system. (See Image Here)

    Ray Trace
    Field-Chief Rays
    Tangential Field Marginal Rays

    • Show Field-Chief Ray Option - Allows users to determine ray-aim failures.

      • Field-Chief Ray Trace implementation.

      • Field-Marginal Ray Trace implementation

        • Sagittal

        • Tangential

        • 2D