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Revision 1 (Anchi Cheng, 04/24/2020 03:19 PM) → Revision 2/5 (Anchi Cheng, 04/24/2020 03:39 PM)

h1. Aperture selection through tem controller 

 This feature allows selection of aperture of TFS microscopes with automated apertures.    The current implementation uses AutoIt Scripting and reads the configuration from c:\Program Files (x86)\myami\fei.cfg 

 h2. Setup 

 h3. compile autoit script 

 The script is pyscope/autoit/ApertureSelection.au3 
 Use AutoIt suite to compile it.    Either 32 or 64-bit version works as far as I know.    Save the executable at the place you plan to specify in fei.cfg 

 h3. Setup pyscope fei.cfg 

 Copy from pyscope/fei.cfg.template these lines to fei.cfg used on your scope.    In standard installation, this should be "c:\Program Files (x86)\myami\fei.cfg" 

 Modify these settings according to your scope. 

 <pre> 
 [aperture] 
 # Disable control of auto apertures if not working or not available 
 # not all versions of microscope software allows auto aperture control 
 # from scripting level. 
 USE_AUTO_APERTURE = False 
 # AutoIt Automation 
 AUTOIT_APERTURE_SELECTION_EXE_PATH = c:\Users\supervisor\Desktop\Anchi\AutoItScripts\ApertureSelection.exe 
 # Does the Titan column has automated c3 aperture ?    This affects the id of the 
 # gui button for AutoIt script.  
 HAS_AUTO_C3 = True 
 # Individual aperture selections.    If retractable, add open at the end of the list 
 # List these in the order of what appears in the TUI 
 # Note: can not handle multiple apertures of the same name. 
 CONDENSER_2 = 150, 100, 50, 20 
 OBJECTIVE = 100, 70, 50, open 
 # Optional selected area aperture control. comment or remove the line to deactivate it. 
 SELECTED_AREA = 200,100, 40, 10, open 

 </pre> 

 h2. Testing 

 h3. Testing the AutoIt executable 

 # Open TEM user interface. 
 # Retract the objective aperture. 
 # Double click Autoit executable to run. 
 If this works right, it should insert the 100 um aperture. 

 h3. Testing in with python command from pyscope 

 <pre> 
 from pyscope import fei 
 f=fei.Krios()    # Change this to match your instrument class 

 f.getApertureSelections('objective') # This should give you the list you specified in fei.cfg 
 '100', '70', '50' , 'open' 

 f.getApertureSelection('objective')    # The returned value should be the current aperture position as a string 
 '100' 

 f.setApertureSelection('objective', '50') # This should insert the 50 um aperture 

 f.retractApertureMechanism('objective') # This should retract the aperture as if you click on the Activate/Deactivate aperture button to disable it. 

 </pre>