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[Swati Bhargava]

Hi,

I'm using Linear taper from Object Library. I can Edit this object to set its properties. One of the property is named "index" . Any idea what does this represent? I think this does not represent the material refractive index because there is another property names "Material" where I can select the material and that will in turn determine the refractive index.

Below is the snapshot where index property is shown at #8: By default it was set to 1.4 . I'm not sure how to decide its value, unelss I know what it represents.

 

Here is what Script tab shows: It does not talk about the index property!

 

[Swati Bhargava]

I figured out that this is the dielectric index value. It seems to me that this parameter gets populated automatically based on the dielectric layer in the structure.

[Taylor Robertson]

Hello Swati,

 

This value will likely only be used if you have chosen object defined dielectric material, then it will be the assigned index n of the object.