Non-linear absorption and athermal ablation effects are two of the most attractive benefits of ultrashort pulsed (USP) laser radiation for optics manufacturing. The conventional generation of complex shapes still is a challenging problem for engineers and constrains the outcome of new products and applications in combination with aspheric and freeform optical shapes. To create a process chain for these shapes based on USP is the definition of task. We accomplished experiments with a 18W lasersystem (<15ps) and analysed ablation strategies beginning from selective to three dimensional removal on different optical materials. Therefore dependent variables like roughness (RMS), irregularities (IRR) in terms of shape accuracy and sub-surface damages (SSD) give suggestions for parametrical improvements. The aim is to substitute grinding procedures by creating path-time-controlled removal functions to achieve polishable surface quality.