Learning to navigate the reTORT ray tracer
We all know learning to navigate new software can be daunting. Learning to navigate the reTORT ray tracer is simple with a well written guide. The reTORT ray tracer optical design software enables smaller, faster and lighter optical systems design. And, learning is quick with this example and these handy tips. Learning to navigate the reTORT ray tracer is easy with the Quick Start Guide 1.
The featured image to this post shows the principal docks used. These docks can be moved, resized, deleted or added with ease.
This quick start guide starts with basic setup of the light sources, materials and elements for an actual optical lens design. In this way, the guide steps through the use of the reTORT UI. To start on the path to mastery of reTORT taies only twenty minutes with the E x H quick start guide.
Learning to navigate the reTORT ray tracer
The unique property editor is filled with detailed formats for data entry. Most data is prefilled based upon the problem definition. Most optical designers choose to keep the default options set by reTORT.
The lens stack property editor contains most of the description of the model to be designed.
There are many more steps in between. But the data entry results in the model view. The model view is a centerpiece of the workspace where all models, and result plots and tables will reside.
Optimizing the optical design model with reTORT ray tracer
reTORT offers easy tools to optimize any optical lens design. The model hierarchy is the command center.
Key functions will run with one click on an icon above the model hierarchy.
The reTORT ray tracer optimization wizard
This wizard makes setting up and running optimizations a snap. Most settings and parameter boundaries are preset. Run global or local optimizations from this single screen.
Set macro goals for optimizations.
Parameters are pulled in automatically from bounded elements, the lens stack and other properties. Bounds for each parameter are set automatically based on the design problem being set up.
Find all of this and more in the E x H Quick Start Guide. Learn many other useful tips in this first guide. And, there is more to come.
Download the last version of the reTORT ray tracer or a free “no credit card needed” trial, from the E x H website.
Learning to Navigate E x H, Inc.
E x H’s mission is to provide you with advanced optical system simulation tools. The result is tools that allow you to design optical systems that are smaller, lighter and faster. Watch our SWaP reduction use case tutorial for a taste of this.
Some of our solvers are licensed from Penn State University. PSU is one of the leading research institutions in the USA.
We have participated on multiple programs funded by DARPA that have allowed us to develop software on the leading edge of technology.
Outside of the optical space, this same reTORT Ray Tracer was used to fast prototype the transformational optics that proved the concept for Isotropic Systems’ high throughput, multi-beam satellite terminals (https://www.isotropicsystems.com/).
On the business side, we have been backed by Gran Sasso Ventures, the same venture capitalists that funded collaboration software firm Compoze Software, now a part of Oracle [ORCL:NYSE], and multitouch technology inventor FingerWorks, the driver of touch screen technology and now a part of Apple [AAPL:NASDAQ]. E x H is at the forefront of transformation optics.
