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Defaults

Logical Parent

Name of the parent entity.  Valid parent nodes can be selected using the entity picker.

Selected node at the time of creation or first valid node in the object tree.

Name

Name of the new surface.  Displayed in the object tree view.

Surface n

Description

Description of the new curve.  Displayed in the object tree view.

Blank

Traceable

Toggles this surface to be traceable during the raytrace.

Checked

Use for trimming only

Specifies this surface to be used only for trimming.

Unchecked

Surface Parameters

Types of surfaces.  Options are:

•Plane

•Conicoid (sphere, ellipse, hyperbola, parabola, etc)

•Standard Asphere (Conicoid plus even order radial polynomial terms)

•General Asphere (Conicoid plus even and odd order radial polynomial terms)

•Cylinder (Aligned along the Z-axis)

•Conic Foci (Ellipsoid/Hyperboloid defined by two foci and a surface point)

•Tabulated Cylinder (straight line extruded curve)

•Spline Surface (collection of parametric (u,v) polynomial spline patches

•Ruled Surface (two connected curves)

•Surface of Revolution (curve revolved around an axis)

•NURB Surface (Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline surface in U,V parameters)

•Trimmed Parametric (parametric surface with trimming curves)

•Toroidal Asphere (Toroid, potato chip, etc. with non-symmetric aspheric terms)

•XYToroidal Asphere (X or Y toroid with even/odd aspheric terms)

•Polynomial Asphere (Conic with X and Y polynomial aspheric terms)

•Polynomial Surface (Polynomial function in terms of X, Y and Z)

•Zernike Surface (Surface defined by Zernike polynomials)

•Bicubic Mesh Surface (Sample points define smoothly connected patches)

•Coil Surface (Spiral Surface)

•QCon Surface (Conic surface deformed by Forbes Qcon polynomials)

•QBfs Surface (Conic surface deformed by Forbes Qbfs polynomials)

•Lens Module (Spherical Surface)

•Lens Module (Perfect lens with finite FL and nonzero magnification)

•Lens Module (Perfect lens with finite FL and infinite conjugate)

•Lens Module (Perfect afocal lens)

•Surface Module (Perfect focus surface)

•Super-Gaussians Superposition Surface

•Faceted Surface

•Implicit Script Surface (Surface defined by a script)

Parameter Fields

Allow specification of the parameters for the selected surface type. See the help page for the individual surface type for a discussion of the parameters.

Depends on surface type selected.

OK

Accept settings and close dialog box.

Apply

Accept settings and keep dialog box open.

Cancel

Discard settings and close dialog box.

Help

Access related help documentation.