You can now check-out a managed license for offline use. The typical scenario is that you plan to travel with your laptop and expect to have no internet connection for a while. In this situation you can use the menu command “?/Check out managed license for offline use” while you still have a connection to the internet. You have to specify the number of hours for which you will be offline. During this time you can work without connection to the license server.
The license server blocks your license for the indicated offline time for other users. If your license is one license of a pool shared by several users act responsibly and declare reasonable offline periods only.
If your offline time is over earlier than expected you can use the menu command “?/Un-do managed license check-out” to tell the server that you are online again. Your license will then be available for other users if you do not use if for some minutes.
A new version of live.exe is available here. The new version makes it very easy to migrate your software from one computer to another.
Copy live.exe to your program directory (like c:\my_software\code\) and start it. Click on the button ‘Generate backup folder’ – the program lets you select a destination in your network and then backups the complete program folder and your application data, including your passport file. You should execute this backup function from time to time to save your software package. The destination folder should not be on the same drive as your original installation.
In order to install the software on a new computer you must make the backup folder accessible for the new machine. Then start live.exe in the backup folder and click on ‘Install software on this computer’. This action will do the installation for you and your software should now run on the new PC.
Note the following exceptions:
If your software is protected by a USB dongle you must install the dongle driver on the new machine first. The dongle driver is available here.
If your software is protected by activation you need to obtain a new passport file from us.
Visualizing a layer stack in views is now more flexible. Instead of representing each layer as a rectangle of constant height (i.e. the same height for all layers) the graph can now better visualize the proportions by drawing the rectangles with heights proportional to the thickness of the layer.
The graphs below show the difference. Up to now layer stack views looked like this:
Now you can have this:
This kind of drawing makes it much easier to compare layer stacks:
The new kind of drawing is activated by a click on the layer stack in the view. You will be asked for the thickness that the height of the base rectangle should represent. The value must be specified in micrometers – if you set a value to 0.075 the base rectangle shows 75 nm of the stack.
Since layer thickness values in stacks with thin films and (incoherent) thick layers are very different, it is not possible to see thick layers and thin films in one graph. Thin films with thicknesses 100000 times smaller than thick layers will simply not be visible (like in real life). If you still want to show the thin film part of the stack with the new feature you have to use 2 layer stacks: one for the thin film coating alone and the second one for the complete layer stack. In this case you have to insert the coating as ‘included layer stack’ in the second one.
After execution of the ‘Range’ command in spectra and material objects the settings of the x-axis in the graph has been changed, ignoring the option ‘Automatic graphics generation’. This has been fixed – the axis labels remain unchanged.
The management of the menu items that show the last accessed files has been improved. Since the list of files is now stored in a different way the menu items are all empty when you change to the new version. During your work the items will fill up again.
