AmScope MU USB3.0 - Top Toolbar Features

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MU Series (Windows)
User’s Manual
Top Toolbar
File Shortcuts
Measurement Swap Shortcuts
This secon is located above the le navigaon bar and viewing area, and contains shortcuts to many tools the
soware has to further enhance your image, create annotaons, or simple quality of life improvements. Each
one will be covered in the following secons.
The rst four icons on the toolbar (from le to right):
Open Image - Open a single image le.
Save - Save the currently open image le.
Quick Save - Saves the currently open image le with a default name.
Browse - Changes the le navigaon bar from the “Camera Bar” to the “Folder Bar,” providing quick access to
open les on your hard drive in the viewing area.
Note: To change back to the “Camera Bar,” click the tab below the le hand navigaon bar tled “Camera,”
and click the rst tab in your viewing area to return to the camera’s live view.
The following two drop down menus are useful when you have calibrated your soware to capture measure-
ments in real distance while looking at a sample through your MU series camera. If you have not yet per-
formed the calibraon procedures using a micrometer slide or other unit of known measurement, these func-
ons will not actually change anything.
From le to right, the opons are:
Measurement - Allows you to quickly swap between measurement sizes, such as milimeters (mm) and nano-
meters (nm).
Magnicaon - Allows you to quickly change between calibraons performed at dierent magnicaons.
These are important because the camera itself only sees an image in pixels. By telling it how many pixels are in
a given unit of measurement at a specic magnicaon level, the camera soware can perform measurements
in real distance by extrapolang how many pixels are in the requested line or arc, and converng it to real
measurement. Without calibrang the soware, it will always read and feed back in pixels, as that is the only
thing the camera sensor and soware can actually quanfy. For more details on calibraon, please see “Cali-
brang the Soware” on page 140.