Creating, Opening, and Saving Project

To start work you can either create New file or open an existing data file with extension *.isd.

Creating Project

To create new Project:

• On the File menu, click New, or Click on the New icon , or Press Ctrl+N keys on the keyboard.

Immediately after it, new optical system will be created. Created system is a two-component one and contains two round planes (10 mm diameter) placed with 20 mm distance. First plane is defined as a light source and last surface is defined as light detector.

Opening Project

To open an existing Optical System:

• On the File menu, click Open, or Click on the Open icon , or Press Ctrl+O keys on the keyboard.
• In the Look in list, click the drive, folder, or FTP location that contains the Optical System you want to open, and then locate and double-click the folder that contains the Optical System.
• Double-click the optical system file you want to open, or select Optical System file and click Open.

You can use also list of recently used files via either Main menu or Main Toolbar to get quick access to your files.

To get access to recently used file:

• On the File menu, choose Open, then select name of one of recently used file

Or

• Click triangle placed at the right side of Open icon as it shown below, then select name of one of recently used file from pop-up menu:

In addition, you can carry out import procedure to load either finite-element model file created with some CAD application and having dxf format, or *.isd data file.

Saving work and Closing Project

When you save your Project file for the first time, you assign a file name and indicate where you want to store the file on your computer's hard disk or in another location. Each time you subsequently save the Project, Application updates the Project file with your latest changes.

Internal *.isd file format is used to save your Project configuration. Please don’t try to edit data file using any external editor.

To save a new, unnamed Optical System:

• On the File menu, click Save or Save As, or Click on the Save icon , or press Ctrl+S keys on the keyboard.
• In the Save in list, select the drive and folder where you want to save the Optical System.
• To save the Optical System in a new folder, click Create New Folder.
• In the File name box, type a name for the Optical System. You can use long, descriptive file names.
• Click Save.

To save an existing Optical System:

• On the File menu, choose Save, or Click on the Save icon , or press Ctrl+S keys on the keyboard.

To save a copy of Optical System:

• Open the Optical System you want to make a copy of.
• On the File menu, choose Save As.
• To save the copy in a different folder, choose a different drive in the Save in box, or click a different folder name in the folder list, or both. To save the copy in a new folder, choose Create New Folder icon.
• In the File name box, type a new name for the workbook.
• Click Save.

You can save results of analysis of Optical System into separate file. Internal *.edn file format is used for this purpose. Therefore, you can compare results of analysis of different Optical Systems anytime you want without repeating of analysis procedure.

You can close your Project file manually without closing of Application.

• To close an Project choose Close on the File menu.

Immediately after it, your Optical System file will be closed. If some changes were made with the current Optical System before closing, you will be prompted to save your work.