Files Saving and Export

Surface and Curve data are saved using FemtoScan format. To save a file press button or choose menu command File/ Save. To save a file at different name choose menu command File/ Save As.... To save all new or revised files take menu command File/ Save All. New files will be saved in the current directory (mentioned in the menu command File/ Save Path...).

It is possible to export images into text ASCII files, into the image Bitmap or Jpeg files, and also into 3D image file format used in Internet (VRML file format). Export peculiarities are depicted in Table 3.2. The information about inclusions, labels, scales, etc is not saved for top views for the ASCII text files. If user wants to exoprt data to Bitmap or Jpeg format with additional information, mentioned above, he should set Export with decorations parameter to True in Export File dialog window. Also this additional information is saved for 3D images. Please note, that only Bitmap files is possible to import after the export. It is not possible to import Jpeg files and text files after the export.

Table 3.2: Data Export

	Export Format
Image Types	*.txt	*.bmp	*.jpeg	*.wrl
Ordinary Curve and Surface Images	*	*	*
Sections	*	*	*
Histograms	*	*	*
Diagrams ``Enum Features''	*	*	*
Images of Fourier Spectrum		*	*
3D Images		*	*	*

Export is done by menu command File/ Export. It is possible to choose file format in the appeared window. It is worth knowing that the export of surface image may demand big amount of free space on the computer hard disk.