1.2 KostaCLOUD

General Information about KostaCLOUD UI Layout

Here we will discuss the layout and basic operation of KostaCLOUD. There are a few items which we will talk about here that you should be aware of:

• Top Access Panel - Used for Project to Workspace level quick operations.

• Navigation Bar - Used for switching between operating modes in design process.

• Object/Properties Pane - Object Pane lists the objects in a Workspace and the Properties Pane lists editable properties within an object.

• Workspace Viewer - Allows you to see the elements within your active Workspace.

• View Cube - Allows you to quickly snap to different views of your Workspace.

• Scale Bar - Allows you to see the scale of objects (Also be aware that inserting a geometry will be correlated to the scale).

• Workspace Footer - Allows you to create a new Workspace in the current Version within the Project as well as switch between Workspaces.

🚨🚨🚨 A few important quick-notes:

• Inserting an object into KostaCLOUD defaults to the center of where your Workspace Viewer Camera is located, as well as based on the scale of your scale bar. For example if you zoom in, then the relative scale of an object gets smaller if you insert zoomed in. If you pan your camera to the right, then the object will be inserted to the right of where you were.

• The fastest way to convert any field (such as radius of curvature, thickness, etc.) in KostaCLOUD to an Independent Variable is click within the properties text-box and to use the quick-key ctrl+q.

• If you want to tile windows like you can in other programs, feel free to open the same KostaCLOUD Workspace in a new tab by copying the URL to a new Tab, and tiling them with the Operating System (OS), or use the tabs built into the browser.

Below we can see an example of a design in KostaCLOUD:

KostaCLOUD Double Gauss Example

Top Access Panel

Top Access Panel

There are quite a few buttons/Items to know about that are located in the Top Access Panel. From left to right we have:

1. Project Tools Menu () - This is used to rename a Project or edit Project properties
2. Project Name - If you have rename project permissions, you can click on the project name, and edit the name directly.

3. Version/Fork Name - This is the active Version or Fork for the current Project.

4. Project Versions () - This is used as a quick access to view the Version Control Tree.
5. Create Version () - Allows you to quickly take the Project and create a Version or Fork of it.
6. Audit the Workspace () - Pulls up a modal that allows you to query an audit of changes in the open workspace, with context of Version/Fork that is open.
7. Mode - A dropdown select that will in the near future switch between different design modes, such as Ray Optics Mode and Wave Optics Mode.

8. Compute Unit (CU) Indicator () - Provides information about consumed monthly CPU usage.
9. Copy Selected Item () - If an item is selected in KostaCLOUD this will copy this item to the Server-side clipboard. This allows you to switch between workspaces and later paste.
10. Paste Item from Clipboard () - If there is an item on the Server-side clipboard, then pastes the item based on the current camera location.
11. Undo Last Action () - Reverts Workspace to the previous Versioning.
12. Redo Last Action () - If the previous action was an undo, restore the next Versioning to the Workspace.

Navigation Bar

Navigation Bar

In the Navigation Bar there are a few tabs you can switch between which dictate operating modes of KostaCLOUD which are are:

• Geometry - Which allows you to insert elements into the Workspace.

• Parameter - Which allows you to optimize a design, or setup parameters for particular aspects of a design such as Computed Metrics (Like Effective Focal Length), or independent variables which the optimizer optimizes, or dependent variables.

• Detection - Which allows you to insert detectors into the Workspace.

• Simulation - Which allows you to simulate and setup system parameters for your system in context to the design mode. (For example set F/# in Imaging)

• Analysis - Which allows you to plot data from Simulation

• Tolerance - Which allows you to do sensitivity analysis and Monte-Carlo analysis for your design.

• Data - Which allows you to upload data files or select a live-stream of data which can be used in a simulation or in analysis.

Object/Properties Pane

Below you can see the Objects and Properties Panes as they look in KostaCLOUD by switching tabs. The goal for each pane is:

• Objects Pane - To list all of the Objects within the current Workspace to make it easier to select objects (by clicking )that may be difficult or impossible to select otherwise.
• Properties - To list an extensive list of all properties for a selected Object.

Objects

Element List under Objects Pane

Properties

Properties List for a Lens in the Properties Pane

Workspace Viewer

The Workspace Viewer is as simple as it gets. You get to see your design using it.

Example of Double Gauss lens in Workspace Viewer

View Cube

The View Cube gives you Axes references, and allows you to click on a face which aligns the Workspace viewer in that plane. One can drag the icon to move the view-cube.

View Cube

Scale Bar

The Scale Bar provides the user a reference of scale for the system. The number denoted is the length of the entire scale bar.

Scale Bar

Workspace Footer

By clicking you can either create a new Blank Workspace or Import a file such as a .ZMX file. If you have multiple workspaces, they will appear as tabs similar to the ones shown below. To switch workspaces simply click on the tab.

Examples of a few designs in the Workspace Footer