Vision stitching bugs

1) Circular/Annular stitching does not support stitch from current location. Specifying an inner / outer diameter with "Use Current Location" starting option selected will still result in a modal dialogue that disables other actions when taking a new measurement. The modal dialogue requests for the user to specify boundaries for circular stitching, which can only be completed in the stitching "Teach" procedure.

2) Crashing Vision in Circular/Annular stitching mode
a) We specify inner/outer dimensions manually with Turret = 5x , FOV = 1x

• Outer left edge of the sample: in our test, left corner of the "Y"
  
• Outer top edge: two grids up and right from the origin
  
• Outer bottom edge: 4 grids down from upper top edge point
  
• Inner bottom edge: 1 grid up from bottom edge point
• Resulting diameters
• Outer: 0.4765 mm
• Inner: 0.2315 mm
  

b) Select "New Measurement" results in a modal dialogue requesting the manual specification of outer left edge followed by clicking "Next". The "Next" button is greyed out and only clicking "Finish" will start stitching.

c) During measurement, the microscope appears to attempt to scan at a larger area than specified. It starts correctly at the outer left edge, but the other locations chosen seem to be offset from the other locations specified (outer top edge, outer bottom edge, inner bottom edge). From our limited observations, the three boundaries seem to be moved up and to the right from their originally specified locations.

d) After taking measurements and camera returns to outer left edge, Vision crashes with no prompt or error message.

3) Freezing and crashing Vision when attempting to use Stage File stitching using a manually created stage file from X/Y Grid. See Damon's blog (http://damonli.blogspot.com/) for complete description. Will contact Veeco sales tomorrow with regards to bugs encountered for software update. We are currently using 3.50, released 8/8/05.

4) Familiarization with Wiki syntax and summaries of VisualAudio and LBNL. Hierarchical structure of http://coltrane.music.mcgill.ca:16080/DDMAL/index.php/Preservation to be decided with Damon tomorrow.