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Good day. Where is the ZMX File Specification to be found? I used it last year, but now can't remember where I saw it.

 

Hi Jacob,

Are you referring to the Prescription Data Report? If you are, this can be found by following the steps below:

 

Regards,

Ali

 


Good day, again. No, I mean the specification for the ZMX file format. The ZMX file is a text file. For example for the Double Gauss 28° file it begins with.

VERS 160527 2 1   <--- which version of ZEMAX
MODE SEQ           <--- sequential mode
NAME DOUBLE GAUSS
NOTE 0 Notes...
NOTE 4
NOTE 0  
NOTE 4
NOTE 0  
PFIL 0 0 0
LANG 0
UNIT MM X W X CM MR CPMM
ENPD 3.3330E+01    <-------- Entrance pupil size
ENVD 2.00E+01 1 0
GFAC 0 0
GCAT SCHOTT    <------- Which glass catalogs
RAIM 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
PUSH 0 0 0 0 0 0
SDMA 0 1 0
OMMA 1 1
FTYP 0 0 3 3 0 0 0
ROPD 2
PICB 1
XFLN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   <---------- field points
YFLN 0 1.00E+01 1.40E+01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FWGN 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
VDXN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0  <--------- vignetting
VDYN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
VCXN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Where is this file specification published, what which command means?


Hello Jacob, 

The documentation you are referring to is not included in the Help System anymore as of ~2005. Do you have a specific application that you need this information for? Perhaps there is a workaround I could suggest?

Kaleb