FRED Automation with Matlab
Using FRED’s COM interface it is possible to exchange data with external programs such as MATLAB and Excel. This article presents an example where FRED and MATLAB are used respectively as the...
View ArticleRemote Desktop Access
The Safe-Net Sentinel hardware dongles come in both network and single-user formats. The single-user dongles, however, can also be used to run FRED via Remote Desktop if the dongle is located on the...
View ArticleMonitoring network license usage
To monitor the usage of a FRED Network license, open a web browser on the license server computer and go to http://localhost:6002 This opens up the Sentinel License Monitor (will install Java if not...
View ArticleStepped Advanced Raytrace with Analyses
It is important to remember that Analysis Surfaces in FRED only post-process (filter) rays at the end of the raytrace when an analysis is requested. They do not collect ray information during the...
View ArticleBeam Footprint Analysis
It is important to remember that Analysis Surfaces in FRED only post-process (filter) rays at the end of the raytrace when an analysis is requested. They do not collect ray information during the...
View ArticleRotating an Object in Scripting
The attached FRED file demonstrates how to use the scripting language to rotate an object through some range of angles in a loop. Conceptually, the setup is very simple. We have a focusing ray bundle...
View ArticleCAD Surface Position and Orientation
When FRED imports a CAD model, all of its surfaces are defined by NURBs, or trimmed versions of those NURBs called Trimmed Parametrics. These parametric surfaces are always defined in the global...
View ArticleFRED Preference and Ray Buffer Optimization
When FRED is installed on a computer for the first time, the default preference settings will not be optimized to leverage the resources available on the machine. Rather, the default preference...
View ArticleFRED Windows and Toolbars
FRED’s toolbars and windows can be floated or docked anywhere on your screen and while this makes customization of the GUI layout quite flexible, it has resulted in reports of “lost” toolbars and...
View ArticleLinking Scripts to Toolbar buttons
There is a feature in FRED called “User Tools” which enables you to link your custom scripts to buttons on software’s main toolbar. Thus, by simply pressing the corresponding toolbar button you will be...
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