LensVIEW
Introduction
LensVIEW is a comprehensive CD-ROM database of lens designs found in the U.S. and Japanese patent literature and in the classic Zeiss Index of Photographic Lenses.
With data from the late 1800's through to the latest optical designs, LensVIEW is without peer in its scope. With more than 30,000 individual designs and many more added with each release, you will never be at a loss for a starting point for a tough design problem. Using LensVIEW to do the background research on existing optical designs can save countless hours of frustration and wasted effort.
Once you have found a candidate design, exporting the lens to your optical design program -- where the design can be modified -- is quick and easy. LensVIEW will likely pay for itself the very first time you use it and will prove to be an invaluable resource for all your optical design projects.
Complete Search Capability
LensVIEW is fully searchable on 64 different optical and bibliographic parameters. A special LensVIEW Classification System having 110 different categories is also included, making the searching easier.
LensVIEW Exports Lens Data To The Format You Need!
After you have narrowed your search to a few lens designs, you are ready to move to the next step. All the lens designs in LensVIEW are exportable to popular lens design file formats including ACCOS V, CODE V, OSLO, SIGMA and ZEMAX. At the click of a button you can generate a properly formatted lens file. You can then load up the file into your lens design software and begin modification of the lens for your specific requirements.
Intuitive Graphical Interface
The intuitive interface supports multiple graphic windows, including cross-sectional layouts, aberration plots, and numerous dialog boxes and text display windows. The aberration plots include longitudinal spherical aberration, offense against the sine condition, sagittal and tangential astigmatism and distortion. LensVIEW displays multiple text windows including optical prescription data, optical system data, LensVIEW classification data, bibliographic data, references cited, inventors, abstract text, sample claims and application data. There are also windows that display user-defined data so that notes may be added to each lens for future reference.