IntelliWave™ 6
(January 15, 2008)

New Features

• Corner Cube Wizard: Allows automated error analysis of corner cubes.

• Dynamic Wavefront Analysis: Allows real-time analysis for changing wavefronts due to stress, temperature, air currents, or other factors (H2000 users only).

• SubNyquist Unwrapping: Used for high fringe densities beyond the Nyquist limit (special camera may be required).

New Enhancements

• Report sheets now places images in Explorer HTML files.

• After drawing a mask or highlighting a mask with the mouse, the keyboard keys (arrows, Page Up, Page Down) can be used for precise mask control. With Page Up and Page Down resizing is now relative to the mask center.

• If you click a Help button in a dialog box you will get IntelliWave Help as before. If you select Help Advanced from the main IntelliWave Help menu, then you will get advanced Help that offers more features.

• Enhanced axis scaling for Diffraction Analysis

• Of course you will love the new Icons!

Important Notes

• For new options in the Report Sheets, you must delete all files in the IntelliWave/Configurations Files directory with extension *.ssr before installing the new version of IntelliWave.  You will then need to reset your Report Sheet configuration settings after installation.

• If you are using phase shifting, be sure Subtract Bias and Subtract Background are “not” checked in the Options::Image Processing menus.

• Image displays are now scaled using the Percent value from the Statistics Spreadsheets. This produces better image displays when noise is present. Image contrast will be maximized based on the image area in the “data” aperture. This affects OPD, Reference, Slope, and Curvature maps.

• Normally when a data file is loaded, certain configuration settings are also retrieved from the data file. These data file settings can affect the next data acquisition, which may not be desirable. In this release, if a data file has been loaded since the last acquisition, then the default configuration file will be loaded before acquiring the next data set. Thus, it is extra important that you use File::Save Congiguration as Default after changing any program settings. Also, if you load a non-default configuration file, be sure to use File::Save Configuration as Default after loading a non-default configuration file. The default configuration file is always “IntelliWave.cfg”.

• In this new release, XY-world unit scaling is set to that in the file, however the display units are reset to pixels. So if you are using units other than pixels, be sure XY-units are set correctly before performing any analysis that requires XY-Image units.