Zeiss Smartzoom 5 User manual

Quick Start Guide

Smartzoom 5

Digital Microscope

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

1 WELCOME

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).

1 WELCOME

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.

1 WELCOME

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.

1 WELCOME

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.

1 WELCOME

2 ASSEMBLING AND STARTING

SMARTZOOM 5

3 ACQUIRING A FIRST

MICROSCOPE IMAGE

4 RUNNING A JOB

5 ADVANCED FEATURES

OperatorAdministrator

1 WELCOME

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