Zeiss Smartzoom 5 User manual

Quick Start Guide
Smartzoom 5
Digital Microscope

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Table of Contents
1 Welcome 03
1.1 Introduction 04
1.2 About Your Smartzoom 5 Microscope 05
1.3 Main Components 06
1.4 User Roles and Workflows 08
2 Assembling and starting Smartzoom 5 09
2.1 Assembling Smartzoom 5 10
2.2 Starting Smartzoom 5 12
2.3 Positioning the Sample 13
3 Acquiring a first microscope image 15
3.1 Workflow Selection 16
3.2 Acquiring an Overview Image 17
3.3 Acquiring a Microscope Image 18
3.4 Finding Areas on the Sample 19
3.5 Adjusting the Image Zoom, Focus, and Position 20
3.6 Optimizing Microscope Images 21
3.7 Acquiring Microscope Images 22
3.8 Performing Examination Tasks 23
3.9 Checking and Exporting Job Results 24
3.10 Saving a Job 25
3.11 Administrator Workflow 26
4 Running a job 29
4.1 Job Workflow 30
4.2 Selecting a Job 31
4.3 Entering the Sample ID 32
4.4 Acquiring an Overview Image 33
4.5 Placing the Coordinate System 34
4.6 Acquiring a Microscope Image 35
4.7 Performing Measurements 36
4.8 Saving the Job Results 37
5 Advanced Features 39
5.1 Defining the Coordinate System 40
5.2 Naming the Sample and Job 41
5.3 Measurement Tools 42

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1.1 Introduction
Welcome to the Smartzoom 5 Quick Start Guide.
This Quick Start Guide introduces you to the most important
features, functions, and information you need to know to start
using Smartzoom 5 quickly, including:
•Suitability of Smartzoom 5 and its main components
•Setting up and starting the microscope
•Acquisition of images
•Creating jobs for routine examinations
•Running jobs
It also contains a quick reference for the most common image
optimizations and measurement tools.
For the complete documentation refer to the User Manual
(for hardware, safety, and technical information) and the
Online Help (tap the icon in the user interface).

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1.2 About Your Smartzoom 5 Microscope
Smartzoom 5 is a fully motorized, easy-to-use digital
microscope which provides high-quality, reliable inspections.
All the functions of the microscope are controlled via the
attached computer, which is also used to process and analyze
the acquired images.
Smartzoom 5 is particularly suitable for performing quality
assurance and quality control tasks. It can resolve features
down to 1 µm and is suitable for samples measuring up to
13 x 10 x 12cm (width x depth x height).
Smartzoom 5 is also designed as a portable device and can be
assembled within minutes without needing any tools.

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1.3 Main Components
1Optical engine
Contains the image acquisition sensor and lenses for
zooming the image.
2Objective
Acquires and focuses the light from the sample. Three
different objectives are available for various image
acquisition tasks.
3Scanning stage
Base upon which the sample to be inspected is placed.
4Microscope stand
The main component of Smartzoom 5: it provides the
support for the optical engine and the scanning stage as
well as controlling the communication between the
attached components and the computer.
5Computer
Touch-sensitive monitor that supports multi-touch
gestures and which contains the Smartzoom 5 software.
6Keyboard
Connects to the computer wirelessly and can snap onto
the controller magnetically.
7Controller
Controls the microscope and workflow using multi-touch
gestures and touch-sensitive, context-specific icons.
The control knobs control the zoom, focus, and
microscope image position.

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1.4 User Roles and Workflows
How you work with Smartzoom 5 depends on your user role
in the system:
•Administrator
Administrators are experienced microscopy users.
Administrators can create jobs to ensure product quality
as well as perform free inspections.
•Operator
Operators are the main category of user.
Operators run jobs that have been defined by an
administrator.
Since the workflows for operators and administrators are very
different, they are described in separate sections in this Quick
Start Guide. The graphic indicates which sections are relevant
for you.
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2 ASSEMBLING AND STARTING
SMARTZOOM 5
3 ACQUIRING A FIRST
MICROSCOPE IMAGE
4 RUNNING A JOB
5 ADVANCED FEATURES
OperatorAdministrator
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