

Provides quick and easy access to command menus for those users less comfortable with but who still need scripting in ASAP NextGen. This combination of parallel and remote distributed processing is another industry first and will make ASAP NextGen the fastest ray tracer with the highest level of computing power of any commercial optical design software. In addition, users can control the number of cores accessed on each machine. Introducing another new paradigm for ray tracing speed and efficiency, ASAP NextGen with CoreMax technology will automatically run parallel processes on all cores on a local PC as well as all cores on up to (5) Remote licenses of ASAP installed on the LAN. Users needing access to ASAP’s powerful scripting language can immediately modify and run these scripts to add multi-variable analysis or optimization using the new Optimization Manager to their design tasks. Once systems are constructed in the Optics Manager, ASAP NextGen will automatically create a working script from the complete system prescription. Speaking of script…ASAP NextGen offers another industry first for optical design software. And the new Optics Manager in ASAP NextGen functions without a single line of script! The as-defined system can be run with a single mouse click and saved for later use.

Components are shown as nodes in the tree, and the new persistent 3D viewer automatically updates to reflect changes in the system prescription. Using simple menus, context sensitive dialogs and the included ASAP Catalogs, users can create a variety of optical surface and geometric entities, import CAD geometry, add optical properties, add a light source, and setup ray tracing and analysis options. A brand new easy-to-use interface presenting users with a familiar CAD-like tree structure.
