Lofting and Licensing

We're excited about the new features in 3.2, which are laying the groundwork for more great things to come. Lofting for refractors in the Parametric Optical Design Tools allows you to create smooth lenses and will save you tons of design time. A completely re-written licensing system provides great new network features, including check in/out as well as a shared and synced library, with improved stability on slower networks.

Network Licensing

Completely rewritten licensing provides expanded network licensing functionality, including the ability to check in/out licenses and sync libraries between computers, all with easier setup and activation. There are installation instructions for Photopia 3.2 which walks through each step.

This represents a huge advancement from earlier versions of Photopia. You no longer need Administrative rights to install or license Photopia. Network licensing no longer requires editing registry settings or installing the full version to the server.

CAD Support

New refractor meshes are exported as NURBS surfaces to a 3DM file. This allows for seamless transfer of your true refractor geometry into your CAD program. With this foundation in place, we'll be expanding our support of 3DM to include all geometry in the future. 3DM can be natively imported into many solid modeling programs.