ZMX File Specification

  • 3 June 2020
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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.


 


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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?

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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

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