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The ZMap consists on a planar projection of cloudofpoints onto the z plane. Its constructor transforms each cloudofpoints element to the ZMap using the following relation:
ZMap(X, Y) = Zcop

A ZMap object internally contains a list of factors:
xmin: minimum x-coordinate of the associated COP
xmax: maximum x-coordinate of the associated COP
ymin: minimum y-coordinate of the associated COP
ymax: maximum y-coordinate of the associated COP
width: Total number of columns of the ZMap
height: Total number of rows of the ZMap

Does CloudCompare have such function to export to a ZMAP file?

The 'Rasterize' tool (http://www.cloudcompare.org/doc/wiki/in ... =Rasterize) can be used to create a 2D grid (raster) and then to export it as a matrix ASCII file.

Maybe if you manually add the ZMAP header (xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax and width and height) it could work?

What kind of software actually opens those ZMAP files?

Because the 3D vision does not have a lot Automatic measurement. So we have to use ZMAP to do some automatic measurement.The picture is also Ok to deal with automatic measurement.

So I guess you are talking about this format:
http://www.aqsense.com/support/support- ... .html#ZMAP

This is not really a proper specification of the format though. Do you have more information? A sample file maybe?