Boundary Values
Individual Boundary Settings Individual boundary constraints may be automatically generated and included in the default merit function by checking the air and/or glass boundary values on.
Glass If selected, then MNCG, MXCG, and MNEG operands will be added to the merit function to constrain the minimum center thickness, maximum center thickness, and minimum edge thickness for each surface. Only glass surfaces will contribute to the merit function if needed.
Air MNCA, MXCA, and MNEA operands will be added to the merit function to constrain the minimum center thickness, maximum center thickness, and minimum edge thickness for each surface. Only air surfaces will contribute to the merit function if needed.
The automatic individual boundary constraint feature is meant to save some manual entry of routine boundary constraints on optical systems with or without mirrors. More complex lenses, such as those with complex coordinate breaks, or multi-configurations usually require additional boundary constraints to be added to the merit function manually.
Black Boxes and Non Sequential Component surfaces are ignored during the optimization.
MNEA, MXEA, MNEG and MXEG ignore coordinate breaks.
Adding a mirror or switching a surface from mirror to not a mirror requires rebuilding the merit function.
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