[Raytrace] Zernike Polynomial Modeling (Was: Re: TCT (Tilted Component Telescope) designs

[Peter Chen]

Hi John:

             Thanks for the tip.

 >Copy the text from where you want and then move the mouse over the target 
edit control.  Select its contents and hit the >delete key.

         I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'move the mouse over the 
target edit control, select its contents and hit delete'.   So I played 
around with it a bit in Zemax.   I highlighted the target cell and hit 
'delete', nothing happened, and the right mouse click yielded the usual 
Zemax dialogue box.   I found by trail and error that in Zemax one has to 
highlight the target cell, input zero ('0'), then backspace.   And then the 
right mouse click gives you the Copy/Paste options.

          I managed to input the Zernike terms this way, one by one, all 37 
of them.   It's a bit tedious, but It does save a lot of typing and 
mistakes.  I can't help thinking, though, there must be a neater way to do 
things.  I guess I must be getting spoiled by all the things you can do 
with a couple of keystrokes and clicks in a spreadsheet program like Excel.

           Thanks very much for the helpful tip.   Now I need to see about 
getting the rest of the raytrace working.

Regards,
P.C. Chen

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