ZOS-API: Single raytrace example (results saved to a text file, not fully implemented)

gistfile1.txt

# Create a RayTrace analysis
MyRayTrace = TheSystem.Analyses.New_RayTrace()

# Check the settings implementation status of this analysis feature in the ZOSAPI
print('Does RayTrace have fully-implemented settings?', MyRayTrace.HasAnalysisSpecificSettings)

# Retrieve the settings
MyRayTraceSettings = MyRayTrace.GetSettings()

# Define the settings (or the ray to be traced)
MyRayTraceSettings.Field.SetFieldNumber(0)
MyRayTraceSettings.Wavelength.SetWavelengthNumber(0)

MyRayTraceSettings.UseGlobal = False

MyRayTraceSettings.Hx = 0
MyRayTraceSettings.Hy = 0
MyRayTraceSettings.Px = 0
MyRayTraceSettings.Py = 1

MyRayTraceSettings.Type = ZOSAPI.Analysis.Settings.Aberrations.RayTraceType.DirectionCosines

# Run the RayTrace with the new settings
MyRayTrace.ApplyAndWaitForCompletion()

# Retrieve the results
MyRayTraceResults = MyRayTrace.GetResults()

MyRayTraceResults.GetTextFile('E:\Text.txt')

print(MyRayTraceResults.NumberOfRayData)

# Close RayTrace
MyRayTrace.Close()