DLL

• Custom DLLs in OpticStudio: An overview of user-defined surfaces, objects, and other DLL types
• How to compile a User-Defined DLL
• How to debug a DLL or EXE
• How to read a static data file into a user-defined surface

API

• Generate the executable in Python for ZOS-API User Extensions
• How to add radial ripple to a sequential surface using the ZOS-API
• How to convert any sequential surface to a Grid Sag Surface using the ZOS-API
• ZOS-API using Python.NET
• Basic method of performing system analysis in ZOS-API
• Required OpticStudio version and language for using ZOS-API

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ZPL

• Optimization using a ZPL Macro: the ZPLM operand
• How to write a ZPL macro: Computing Zonal Transverse Chromatic Aberration
• How to write a Grid Sag DAT file programmatically
• The differences between ZOS-API, ZPL and DLL
• OpticStudio narcissus analysis macro
• ZPL macro for scaling the weight of a range of optimization operands

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