Bicubic Mesh Surface

Sample points defined smoothly connected patches

Coil

Coil specified by helix radius, cross section radius, pitch and turns

Conic Foci

Ellipsoid/Hyperboloid defined by two focii and a surface point

Conicoid

Sphere, Ellipse, Parabola, Hyperbola, etc.

Cylinder

Aligned along z-axis

Faceted Surface

Collection of vertices connected into facets

General Asphere

Conicoid plus even and odd order radial polynomial terms

Implicit Script Surface

Surface defined by a scripted function

Lens Module

Emulates an ideal lens element using Eikonal theory

NURB Surface

Non-Uniform Rational B-spline surface in u,v parameters

Plane

Planar surface

Polynomial Asphere

Conic with X and Y polynomial aspheric terms

Polynomial Surface

Polynomial function in x,y,z

QBfs Surface

Conic surface with Forbes QBfs polynomial aspheric terms

QCon Surface

Conic surface with Forbes QCon polynomial aspheric terms

Ruled Surface

Two connected curves

Spline Surface

Collection of parametric (u,v) polynomial spline patches

Standard Asphere

Conicoid plus even order radial polynomial terms

Super-Gaussians Superposition Surface

Surface formed by a superposition of super-gaussian terms

Surface Module

Implements an ideal lens element with multiple mapping functions

Surface of Revolution

Curve revolved around an axis

Tabulated Cylinder

Straight-line extruded curve

Toroidal Asphere

Toroid with non-symmetric aspheric terms

Trimmed Parametric

Parametric surface with trimming curves

XY Toroidal Asphere

X or Y toroid with even/odd aspheric terms

Zernike Surface

Surface defined by Zernike polynomials