{"id":382709,"date":"2024-09-15T07:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-about-the-flexible-material-plugin-framework-for-lumerical\/"},"modified":"2024-09-15T07:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T07:36:46","slug":"question-about-the-flexible-material-plugin-framework-for-lumerical","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/question-about-the-flexible-material-plugin-framework-for-lumerical\/","title":{"rendered":"Question about the flexible material plugin framework for Lumerical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;I was curious if ANSYS Optics Launcher (AOL) 2024 includes better support for the Custom Material Plugin Framework than AOL 2023. I have a functional DLL that I attempted to place in the Lumerical bin\/plugins\/materials, but Lumerical does not recognize it. Other forum questions suggest MSVC 2010-2013 is needed, but this is difficult to accomplish in Windows 11. Any tips on helping Lumerical read the DLL?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-382709","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-Photoniccrystal-1","topic-tag-create-custom-model","topic-tag-custom-materials-1","topic-tag-customization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":["142.244.63.236"],"_btv_view_count":["172"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["15773"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:2:{i:382710;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:15773;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}i:382711;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:15773;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"],"_bbp_subscription":["15773","2592"],"_bbp_topic_id":["382709"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27833"],"_bbp_engagement":["2592","15773"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["382805"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["382805"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-09-16 17:10:44"]},"test":"spencerwualberta-ca"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/382709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/382709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382711,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/382709\/revisions\/382711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}