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Advanced Topics in CODE V November 5-9, 2007
Pasadena, California
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Europe Software Training 2007
December 3-7, 2007
Nice, France
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Introduction to CODE V
March 31-April 4, 2008
Pasadena, California
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Advanced Topics in CODE V April 7-11, 2008
Pasadena, California
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CODE V version 9.80 – View a Demo on ORA's Customer Area of the Web

CODE V 9.80 was shipped to all current customers last month.  This major update provides several enhancements to CODE V including:

• Image Simulation: Eighty-two new Macro functions have been added to support the export and post processing of IMS data. 
• Interactive Tolerancing: Several new features have been added to CODE V's Interactive Tolerancing to facilitate its use. These enhancements include a larger dialog box, the ability to modify both components of 2D tolerances simultaneously, the ability to disable the automatic resorting of tolerances when a tolerance is modified so that the specific tolerance is easier to find after it is changed, a new Compensator Summary table, the ability to save the interactive tolerance data to a file, and more.
• Optimizing As-Built Performance: A new macro function, AS_BUILT_VAR, as been added to allow users to evaluate both the optimized and as-built system.  The AS_BUILT_VAR function performs a sensitivity tolerance analysis that returns statistical as-built performance information.  Using it during optimization allows you to optimize the as-built performance so that the final design will be less sensitive to tolerances.
• Foreign Language Support: CODE V language support has been expanded to include support of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean (in addition to English and Japanese previously supported). 
• New Sample Lenses: Several new sample (6) and patent lenses (56) have been added to CODE V's lens database and are accessible via the New Lens Wizard.
• Support of Additional Compliers for User-defined Features:  CODE V's user-defined features (user-defined surface, gradient, surface properties, etc.) now support Compaq Visual FORTRAN 6.0 or later, Intel FORTRAN 9.1, Microsoft Visual C++, and Intel C++ 9.1.
• Circular Field Map Format: The Field Map (FMA) option now supports a circular output format, in addition to the rectangular format previously supported.
• Improvements to Online Help: CODE V's online help has been converted to HTML help and supports several new features that facilitate its use.

View a Demo of CODE V 9.80: A recorded demonstration of the new features included in CODE V version 9.80 can be viewed on ORA's Customer Area of the Web, www.oraservice.com, under CODE V Support > Webinar Recordings.

Updates to ORA's Customer Service Web Site

The following additions have been recently made to ORA's Customer Service area of the web, www.oraservice.com, under CODE V Support:

• The October issue of CODE V E-news, which features a tip on customizing CODE V graphics for reports and presentations, is available under CODE V Enews & Tips.
  
  
• Recorded demonstrations of the new features included in CODE V 9.80 are available for viewing under Webinar Recordings.
  
  
• Three new macros, from ORA Technical Support, have been added under Macro and User-defined Feature Downloads > Macros from ORA Technical Support:
  
  
  • derset.seq - Macro to add or modify optimization variables without resetting the derivative increments of existing variables.
    
    
  • relillum.seq – Macro to compute and plot relative illumination as a function of field.
    
    
  • rel_strehl_field.seq – Macro to compute and plot Strehl ratio as a function of field.