Get optical designs to market faster, with lower costs
Build exceptional optical products
To turn optical designs into reality, teams of engineers need to coordinate their individual expertise around one common goal. Oftentimes the limiting factor is not the talent of the team, but the limitations of the tools. Now CAD users don’t have to spend hours or days creating optical designs into CAD formats. With OpticsBuilder, CAD users can directly convert complete optical designs from OpticStudio into CAD, analyze how their packaging impacts optical performance, and export optical drawings to manufacturing
—saving costs and months of trial and error.
Convert complete optical designs into CAD
Analyze how packaging impacts optical performance
Export optical drawings to manufacturing
Webinar: What is New in Zemax 22.2
Learn about features in the latest release of OpticStudio, OpticsBuilder and the OpticStudio STAR Module.
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See how Read-Only and editable .ZBD files look like from the CAD User point of view.
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On Demand Webinar: The Hidden Expenses of CAD Time
Explore the hidden costs of traditional workflows that bring optical designs to a finished product.
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Convert to CAD
Convert and build optical designs into native CAD parts
Instead of spending hours recreating lenses, OpticsBuilder enables CAD users to automatically convert and build lens design data from OpticStudio, like lens materials, positions, sources, wavelengths, and detectors into native CAD parts and assemblies. Design mechanical structures around optical components in minutes using the exact component data.
Optomechanical packaging analysis (OPA)
Easily analyze how mechanical packaging impacts optical performance
Avoid surprises by catching and correcting errors during the initial optical lens design phase. Using the Zemax physics core, you can easily run a ray trace to analyze how the mechanical packaging impacts the optical performance within the native CAD environment. No need to make assumptions or wait for input from the optical engineer.
Automatic drawings
Push-button optical drawing creation
Share ISO 10110 compliant optical drawings with a push of a button using an automatic optical drawing design export tool that even works with your own custom drawing templates. Save time by automatically filling optical manufacturing data pulled directly from OpticStudio and reduce rework.
Convert to CAD
Convert and build optical designs into native CAD parts
Instead of spending hours recreating lenses, OpticsBuilder enables CAD users to automatically convert and build lens design data from OpticStudio, like lens materials, positions, sources, wavelengths, and detectors into native CAD parts and assemblies. Design mechanical structures around optical components in minutes using the exact component data.
OpticsBuilder Resource Center
Product Overview
Get answers to questions like: What validation tools are included in OpticsBuilder?
Download nowFrequently Asked Questions
- Work within a familiar CAD environment
- Utilize an intuitive user interface that does not require extensive optics knowledge
- Save hours, if not days, by automatically importing all optical geometry designed using OpticStudio
- Reduce back-and-forth with Optical Engineers and avoid creating costly physical prototypes with analysis features made to assess mechanical impact on optical performance
- Easily share optical drawings with manufacturing engineers in the format they need with automated push button drawings