General notes on use

General notes on the functions

As a general rule, "click" means pointing and then briefly pressing the

left mouse button (except where the text expressly says you should use

the right mouse button).

                                                               

In this instruction manual "drag" means moving the mouse pointer whilst

keeping the left mouse button pressed down.


If in the video area the mouse pointer changes from "crosshair" to

"arrow" then the object can now be clicked on and dragged or moved.


                   Video examples

Mouse pointer, here as: standard crosshair 


Mouse pointer as arrow: drag to make fine

adjustments to the measured value    


Mouse pointer as arrow: drag to shift the

measured value

                                                                 

       


The measured values shown can be moved (e.g. to the upper left corner).

Fine adjustments can also be made subsequently to the measurement

lines of the measurements:


Important: make sure no measurement or reference object is active -

in other words, first switch from " Measure " -> " Off ".

This can also be done by clicking on: .


For many measurements the subsequent fine adjustment is not really

sensible and has been omitted, for example for polygon areas and

chain dimensions. Also, for text associated with a circle or arrow, only

the text marks can be moved.


Please note that when entering numeric data, the decimal point

depends on the operating system and depending on the country it can

be either a comma or a dot!  The measurement program can work with both

number formats.


You can use the DoubleCheck function to display two live images next to

each other, e.g. when making fine adjustments, or to compare a stored image

with the live image.