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Software Installation.
Your Laser Image Controller will have arrived to you in one of the following two configurations, either as a ready to run system with a PC or as a boxed package containing the output card, software disk and hardware key.
The hardware key that arrives with your system is very important, this is your software license, without this key you will not be able to run the Laser Electronics Ltd software, so be careful not to lose this.
All Laser Electronics Ltd software will run on all of the following windows operating systems, Win 98\ME\2000\XP and Vista, installation is easy, follow these simple steps. 1 Turn on your computer, insert the software CD into your CD Rom drive and follow the on screen instructions.
2 Turn of the computer and Insert the hardware either the PCI card, the USB unit connection or the Network connection into your computer.
3 Plug the hardware key into your printer port if this is the type you ordered or into the USB port if you ordered a USB hardware key.
4 Turn on your computer, and when windows tells you it has found new hardware ask windows to select the hardware from the Laser Electronics directory now installed on your computer, This is located on the route drive under Program Files\Laser Electronics Ltd. If you have purchased a network version set up the following static IP address under Windows Networking 192.168.1.123 If you need technical support for any of the above please call us.
5 After installation of the software, the first time you run the Laser software you must enter the configuration screen and select the device you wish to use, (Either the PCI card, USB unit or Network Connection) please go to the configuration screen and follow the instructions in the help file under Configuration
OVER-VIEW
Laser Electronics Ltd Laser software is extremely easy to use, because it actually makes decisions for you as you build a show. HOWEVER...you must read this information [its only a few pages long] in order to use any of the more advanced features such as the ability to RIGHT-click on objects to change their properties, For Instance, several first time users have called us to find out how to configure the software, when one of the very first pages of the Users manual tells you to RIGHT-click on the black preview screen. Time is money.
SAVE TIME AND MONEY AND READ THIS INFORMATION NOW.
The 10 minutes or so you spend reading this document now will save you many hours later on.
NOTE:
The following information makes a distinction between "Left Clicking" [as you would normally do when using a mouse], and "Right Clicking" which is used to change the properties of an item and to view advanced menu options. This follows the Windows standard as laid down by Microsoft.
If you are unsure of any of the functions of the software, place your mouse over any of the on-screen buttons and a hint will appear, telling you what the function of that particular button is, you can change any of these hints by right clicking on any button and typing in your own hints.
LASER ELECTRONICS LTD LASER CONTROLLER.
The Laser / Image Controller software is such that instead of conventional 2D vector frames all of the software we produce works in true 3D, the software uses camera’s for position, movement, and manipulation of the objects, the objects or frames are not rotated or scaled around an origin, the user actually moves around the object or frame, this is the concept of what we term as worlds. The easiest way of explaining this is to place an object on a table in your kitchen and then getting up from where you are sitting, walk around that object, while you are doing this, keep the object in sight, and as you walk away from that object, see how it gets smaller, the aspect and ratio of the object change, this is exactly how the software works. The software has a total of 5 camera matrices written within the it, these camera’s allow you to have worlds within worlds, so the permutations are endless. As you read this help file you will very quickly become adept with how the software works, if you view the software as you do your own sight , then learning will be very easy. All Laser Electronics Ltd software versions have, advanced features that are only available in laser controllers that would cost three or four times the price, here at Laser Electronics we believe that people should have value for money, while still attaining excellence from their product purchase. We always welcome feedback on our products, so if you have any suggestions or comments please contact us at, and once again Thank You for the interest you have shown in our products.
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