Here you can visualize and plan your Tiles and Positions experiment. The advanced tiles setup opens by clicking on the Show Viewer button in the Tiles tool on the Acquisition tab of the Left Tool Area. In the Center Screen Area you can see the Stage view. When the Tiles Advanced Setup opens, the stage view is zoomed to a predefined factor. You can change the Zoom in the Dimensions tab, or by scrolling the mouse wheel.
To navigate around you have the following options:

  • Move the mouse pointer of the live navigator, then press and hold the left mouse button and drag the live navigator to the desired location. Release the left mouse button to finish.
  • Place the mouse pointer at a location where you want to move the stage and double click.
  • Use the software joystick in the Stage tool of the Right Tool Area to navigate. Alternatively use the hardware joystick of your stage controller.
  • In each corner and along each edge with the arrowheads, you can click to move the view in this direction. Additional settings and tools relating to tile regions or positions can be found in the specific view options.

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Left Toolbar
Here you select which setup you use to set tile regions or position. for more information, see Left Toolbar.

2

Top Toolbar
Depending on what you have selected on the Left Toolbar, different features to create tiles or positions are displayed here. For more information, see Top Toolbar.

3

Stage View
The Stage View shows the full travel range of the microscope stage, along with the current stage position, the graphical display of sample carriers, and your acquired mosaic images. For more information, see Stage View.

4

View Options
General and tiles specific view options are displayed here.
Note that the functionalities between activated and deactivated Show All layout might differ.