stitching errors (July 20)
1) Circular/Annular stitching does not support stitch from current location. Specifying an inner / outer diameter with "Use Current Location" starting option selected will still result in a modal dialogue that disables other actions when taking a new measurement. The modal dialogue requests for the user to specify boundaries for circular stitching, which can only be completed in the stitching "Teach" procedure.
2) Crashing Vision in Circular/Annular stitching mode
a) We specify inner/outer dimensions manually with Turret = 5x , FOV = 1x
Outer left edge of the sample: in our test, left corner of the "Y"
Outer top edge: two grids up and right from the origin
Outer bottom edge: 4 grids down from upper top edge point
Inner bottom edge: 1 grid up from bottom edge point
Resulting diameters
Outer: 0.4765 mm
Inner: 0.2315 mm
b) Select "New Measurement" results in a modal dialogue requesting the manual specification of outer left edge followed by clicking "Next". The "Next" button is greyed out and only clicking "Finish" will start stitching.
c) During measurement, the microscope appears to attempt to scan at a larger area than specified. It starts correctly at the outer left edge, but the other locations chosen seem to be offset from the other locations specified (outer top edge, outer bottom edge, inner bottom edge). From our limited observations, the three boundaries seem to be moved up and to the right from their originally specified locations.
d) After taking measurements and camera returns to outer left edge, Vision crashes with no prompt or error message.
3) Freezing and crashing Vision when attempting to use Stage File stitching using a manually created stage file from X/Y Grid. See Damon's blog (http://damonli.blogspot.com/) for complete description. Will contact Veeco sales tomorrow with regards to bugs encountered for software update. We are currently using 3.50, released 8/8/05.
Damon's additional comments:
Stage-file stitching is explored, other than Simon's report, a few other points:
Only X-Y(rectangular) stage movement is provided in the Hardware->Stage Control section. Although there is an "radial stage" option of Measurement Options->Stitching->Stage, no other menu items are directly related to this radial stage choice, including the circular stitching.
Stage-file stitching uses a user specified stage-file that provides the stage movement info to coordinate a series of consecutive observations.
Through a number of test with the buggy X-Y grid function, it is found that the stage-file stitching cannot accept the created stage files.
On loading the stage file, Vision complains: "please set up starting location", even if the Starting Options is clearly specified to either Use Current Location or Use Fixed Location.
If this message is ignored and followed by a measurement, a series of modal dialogs pop up, all titled "V32 Measurement Error", with message "Did not complete the measurement", "Did not complete the analysis", and another one titled "Done", with "Stage Sequence Completed", leaving us no results at all.
The grid stage works this way:
The task is devided into equal-sized rectangular neighbored grids
User has to specify observation points (with a customizable order) within a grid, these locations are identical to all grids.
Finally when a task is launched, the stage goes from a specified reference grid and move from left to right, back to front, traverse all in-grid observation points in the predefined order and stitch them together.
The output stage-file is in ASCII and completely readable.
There is not enough documentation showing how to complete stage-file stitching using the stage-grid file or free stage file.
No downloadable software updates were found on Veeco website.
2) Crashing Vision in Circular/Annular stitching mode
a) We specify inner/outer dimensions manually with Turret = 5x , FOV = 1x
Outer left edge of the sample: in our test, left corner of the "Y"
Outer top edge: two grids up and right from the origin
Outer bottom edge: 4 grids down from upper top edge point
Inner bottom edge: 1 grid up from bottom edge point
Resulting diameters
Outer: 0.4765 mm
Inner: 0.2315 mm
b) Select "New Measurement" results in a modal dialogue requesting the manual specification of outer left edge followed by clicking "Next". The "Next" button is greyed out and only clicking "Finish" will start stitching.
c) During measurement, the microscope appears to attempt to scan at a larger area than specified. It starts correctly at the outer left edge, but the other locations chosen seem to be offset from the other locations specified (outer top edge, outer bottom edge, inner bottom edge). From our limited observations, the three boundaries seem to be moved up and to the right from their originally specified locations.
d) After taking measurements and camera returns to outer left edge, Vision crashes with no prompt or error message.
3) Freezing and crashing Vision when attempting to use Stage File stitching using a manually created stage file from X/Y Grid. See Damon's blog (http://damonli.blogspot.com/) for complete description. Will contact Veeco sales tomorrow with regards to bugs encountered for software update. We are currently using 3.50, released 8/8/05.
Damon's additional comments:
Stage-file stitching is explored, other than Simon's report, a few other points:
Only X-Y(rectangular) stage movement is provided in the Hardware->Stage Control section. Although there is an "radial stage" option of Measurement Options->Stitching->Stage, no other menu items are directly related to this radial stage choice, including the circular stitching.
Stage-file stitching uses a user specified stage-file that provides the stage movement info to coordinate a series of consecutive observations.
Through a number of test with the buggy X-Y grid function, it is found that the stage-file stitching cannot accept the created stage files.
On loading the stage file, Vision complains: "please set up starting location", even if the Starting Options is clearly specified to either Use Current Location or Use Fixed Location.
If this message is ignored and followed by a measurement, a series of modal dialogs pop up, all titled "V32 Measurement Error", with message "Did not complete the measurement", "Did not complete the analysis", and another one titled "Done", with "Stage Sequence Completed", leaving us no results at all.
The grid stage works this way:
The task is devided into equal-sized rectangular neighbored grids
User has to specify observation points (with a customizable order) within a grid, these locations are identical to all grids.
Finally when a task is launched, the stage goes from a specified reference grid and move from left to right, back to front, traverse all in-grid observation points in the predefined order and stitch them together.
The output stage-file is in ASCII and completely readable.
There is not enough documentation showing how to complete stage-file stitching using the stage-grid file or free stage file.
No downloadable software updates were found on Veeco website.
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