
Software Manual Chapter 3 – Brief Introduction and First Steps 7
3 Brief Introduction to the
Software and First Steps
The following sections explain the basic features and functions. They also introduce the
most important terms used in the software and in this manual and thus should help you to get
started.
For you to follow the contents of this chapter it is necessary that the system (hardware and soft-
ware) has been installed and properly configured. For a detailed description of the system installa-
tion and configuration read Chapter 15,
Configuration, of this manual carefully as well as
the Hardware Manual, especially Chapter 7, System Assembly and Adjustment.
3.1
The User Interface ..........................................................8
3.1.1 The Image Manager..........................................................................9
3.1.2 The Viewport Manager ...................................................................10
3.1.3 The Viewport...................................................................................10
3.2 Simple Image Acquisition...............................................................12
3.3 Saving Images – The Database......................................................13
3.4 Loading Images ..............................................................................14
3.5 Conducting Experiments with the Experiment Manager................14
3.6 Displaying Multi-Color Images .......................................................16
3.7 Displaying Sequences ....................................................................17