OSD,
Inc. has extensive experience with nearly every kind of optical system,
including instrumentation, astronomical, illumination, night-vision,
infrared, eyepieces and more. Let our expertise solve your design needs
quickly and efficiently.- Concept development
- Detailed lens design
- Tolerance budget
- Performance analysis, including diffraction effects and tolerance budget influence via Monte-Carlo analysis
- New lens systems automatically fitted to the testplate list of your preferred vendor, to reduce tooling costs
- 2920 stock lens elements from all major vendors in our online catalog, automatically fit into your lens if possible, to save production cost.
Call Don Dilworth at 207/633-3711, or send us an email to discuss your optical design needs. We will be happy to provide an estimate at no charge. Or mail your requirements to
Optical Systems Design, Inc.
P.O. Box 247
East Boothbay, ME 04544
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The SYNOPSYS lens design program (SYNthesis of OPtical SYStems) is one of the largest and most powerful lens design programs in the world. Over 40 years of development and a native Windows interface make it easy for a novice to use and comprehensive enough for a demanding professional.
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There you may post suggestions, complaints, praise, comments, and the like.
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about SYNOPSYS. (Allow a few minutes for this page to load. It contains
many
graphics examples.)
SYNOPSYS
Version 13.33a 3/2/10. Download. 12.8 MB)
Click the above button to
download a free trial copy of SYNOPSYS.
Click
here to see a revision
history of SYNOPSYS, and what has changed in the latest update.
Documentation:
All SYNOPSYS documentation is now contained in the download
file. That means it is always up to date, and you don't have to
thumb through a paper copy when you want to look up something.
Some users prefer hardcopy, however, so we have formatted two files so
you can print them out. These are the Syntax Summary, which gives all of
the command syntax in a short booklet, and the Tutorial Manual, which new users are
encouraged to print and then read completely. The third
component, the User's Manual, is too long to print -- but it is
completely cross-referenced so you can find any topic within seconds,
on your monitor screen. When you run the program, type HELP UM to
open the User's Manual, or HELP TM to open the Tutorial Manual.
RUSSIAN We also provide a pdf file of the Tutorial Manual in Russian. Click that word to download a zip file of the document.
JAPANESE Click here
to download a zip file of the Tutorial Manual in Japanese.
Click
here to download a zip file with a video
tutorial. This contains 12 lessons that cover many of the
basic features of SYNOPSYS. Download this file to your hard drive, and
extract the contents to a new folder, which you might name
"Tutorial". Then open the file VTUTAVI.html.
Support:
SYNOPSYS has the best support in the optics industry. Updates are posted, on average, every two weeks. Nearly every update contains exciting new features, many of which are the result of a user's request. When problems are reported, we usually have a corrected version posted within 24 hours, and often the same day. With SYNOPSYS, your program is always up to date. No other optics code comes close to this level of support.
Registered users:
After you purchase a license, we will send you a security dongle, which must be plugged into a USB port in order to run all features of the program. Registered users also receive a set of anaglyph glasses that can be used to view some of the graphics of SYNOPSYS in true 3D. The registration fee is currently $2500 US. Click on the Register button below to register your copy. (This link will send you to Google Checkout, which will accept credit cards.) We also accept company POs, sent to the address above.
How to install and update your dongle: Click here to learn about the dongle drivers and what to do when you update your support.Trial and demo users:
If you want to try out the program first, it will run without the dongle in restricted mode: either with a 12-surface limit or else in read-only mode, which disables saving of lens files.
Read-Only
installations:
If your usage of SYNOPSYS is
confined to examining lens and plot
files sent
to you by another SYNOPSYS user, then you do not have to purchase a
license.
Instead, when you start the program and see a dialog telling you
that the security key is not present, simply select the Read-Only
option.
You can then use all features
of the program, with no surface limit – but you will not be
able
to save lens
files. Most of the features of the program will work in this mode
-- although a few that require saving intermediate steps are also
disabled.
To install SYNOPSYS, click the Download button above and save the file synozip.exe to a temporary directory. Then double-click it to unzip and install SYNOPSYS.
You will have to install an update (from Service Pack 1) to use
the SYNOPSYS help file. Click here.
PC with Windows 95 or higher, 42 MB of free disk space, 128 MB RAM minimum
Click
here for samples
of the feedback we have received
from our users.
Click
here for a list of the
terms and conditions that apply to your downloading and installing
SYNOPSYS.
Click
here to find out how to
purchase and register your copy of SYNOPSYS, and how to update your
support.
Click
here to get
support and technical assistance with SYNOPSYS.
Click
here to learn about
scheduling on-site training in the use of SYNOPSYS.
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