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1. 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Copy all visual images into the folder with infrared images 3 Select Dual layout by choosing Dual in the Layouts menu 4 Drag one visual image to the corresponding infrared image When you are dragging a visual image over the infrared one the preview window shows both images as if they were connected tat bef rared Sapa ira d ruger br rar ed Sapia othar files 55 1 B0001 35 LEO 35 LEDE LADE SE ODO LENF rL 56 Soo SS SSL i iae Note You can only drag a visual image and drop it on infrared but not the opposite 30 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Disconnecting wrongly connected images You can disconnect one pair of wrongly connect images or several pairs at once To disconnect one wrongly connected pair right click on the image and choose Disconnect from the context menu see the picture or use key combination CTRL D To select consecutive images click the first item press and hold down SHIFT and then click the last item To select nonconsecutive files or folders press and hold down CTRL and then click each item Then disconnect these images Analyze Convert to GTSI 1 Export Grouped Items Open Open With Print Selection Create Report for Image Copy Cut Delete Disconnect Rename Properties 95190001 95190003 31 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Temperature scale and palettes T
2. Emissivity Edit box to specify Ambient temp Selected field spots lines or areas Correction mode Transmission Distance Rel humidity Atmosphere temp Displayed range min Displayed range max Lamera Lomments Spot Line Area Notations index List of fields Editing fields To edit a field move the cursor there and push the Edit button oo in the Fields group of the Thermo Reports toolbar This will open Report Fields Editor dialog where you can correct the selected field or choose another one Report Fields Editor also opens if double click on a field To delete a field from the report or template move the cursor there and push x the Delete button in the Fields group of the Thermo Reports toolbar Summary tables Summary table is a special table of fields that is added to the report or template You can choose by yourself what columns summary table will contain That can be the same categories as for usual fields 74 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To create a summary table 1 Generate a report for several infrared images or open a template 2 Push Summary Table button in the Thermo Reports toolbar in Word 3 Select necessary categories in the Summary Table Editor and push OK button 4 The summary will be added to the document at the cursor position If the cursor is situated inside the duplicated section with infrared image the summary will be inserted after this sectio
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4. Inthe context menu choose Copy to place a copy of the template in the clipboard 3 Go to the location where you want to save the copy or stay at the same location to save the copy there 4 Right click on a blank area in the files list 5 Inthe context menu choose Paste This is how to make a copy using Copy amp Paste method You can also make a copy by Drag amp Drop For instance you can drag a template from the report template dialog to any folder in the Folders Tree window Finally you can create a copy of a template in the same location folder You may need it for example in order to edit this template later and get a new template as a result To create a copy of a template press CTRL button and holding it drag the template you want a copy of to a blank area in the list of templates Then double click on it to open it in Word and start editing You can also rename it Thermo Reports toolbar in Word To edit a report template is as simple as to draw several rectangles in a Word document For any operation you could need use the Thermo Reports toolbar On 8 sect NGS NG Pa Home Insert Page Layout References Mailings Review View Add ins MN EO Section Break OP Previous re Sa Spots arzi gt A Edit Unk Notations P EG Cai ally E 2 gi Delete Section O Next i Image Info Delete Eda Update infrared Visual Profile Histogram Fitid Summary 00 Page All Plateholders Tabie Update Report Section Pict
5. minimum and average temperatures within this area Histograms to display the temperature distribution in certain area Difference tool to show differences between the temperatures measured by other tools Hot and cold spot finder tool to automatically locate problem zones in the image Dew Point option to locate zones of dew accumulation Labels to identify objects in the image 41 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The image can be temperature calibrated by supplying emissivity ambient temperature and other parameters as a whole but each measurement object can also be calibrated independently The results from these tools can be used in the generated reports They can also be copied and pasted into documents in other applications All above mentioned tools and operations are available in the Analyzer mode Windows buttons and other elements To take thermal measurements open an infrared image in the Analyzer mode To switch to the Analyzer mode simply double click on an infrared image or press the appropriate button in the toolbar WN Analyzer In the picture below you see the structure of the application when the Analyzer mode is on Ele Ect Yew Ansys Too Help pia gt RA G KN A Xer Cla ale O gt Ge Poouments and Settings Mord le Fold yi J desktop L My Documents O br rgged Samples Targlates 95160001 9 ah Futures OD My Received F es O Snok Catalog I
6. Analyzer mode Choose Fusion from the View menu or from the context menu of an infrared image to display fusion dialog Fusion Transparency Infrared mmm Visual Alarm Range Image Alignment Enable vertical High Temperatures w 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Transparency blending Infrared image is placed on top of the visual image With the help of the transparency slider you can change transparency of the infrared image from 100 infrared left side to 100 visual right side If you stop the slider somewhere in between infrared image will be semi transparent so that you can see the visual image under it Alarm range The alarm range function allows you to highlight target object areas of thermal interest by making the out of range area fully transparent You can enable an alarm range based on high low high and low or in range temperature values With the alarm range function enabled target object temperatures are highlighted in the infrared color that corresponds to the alarm temperature s you have set One color isotherms on visual image Sometimes marking areas of interest with only one same color produces more comprehensive results Place a check mark in the One color check box to highlight high temperatures with red color low temperatures with blue color and in range temperatures with green color Image alignment If infrared and visual images were not aligned properly by the camera you may realig
7. Details from View Windows submenu If you place more than one area on the image histograms for all of them will be drawn in the same window with different colors 55 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Histogram Areal Max 55 0 C Min 30 80 Avr 38 4 on 4 23 30 Je 34 36 30 40 42 Temperature C Histogram of the active area is always drawn in the foreground in red color Additional Statistical values like minimum or maximum refer only to the active area Notes Though all histograms are displayed in the same window on the screen it can be different in a report if you place two placeholders for histograms in the report template In this case your report will contain two histograms in two places Using the context menu of the histograms window right click on the window you can copy the diagram into the clipboard or change properties of the displayed area object Measurement objects parameters You can control some of the measurement objects parameters such as emissivity or ambient temperature You can also make use of such features as averaging or temperature offset Emissivity and ambient temperature Emissivity is the fraction of the ideal blackbody spectrum energy a real body actually emits Ambient temperature is the temperature of the background You can change emissivity and ambient temperature values and other supported parameters for the whole image or you can do it individually for e
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9. Place images in a subfolder pO Format 7 image bmp Include temperature scale image jpeg Include analysis information image tiFF Y image png comma separated transposed text transposed Resize 150 v 81 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Raw and GTSI image formats Raw infrared image formats Raw formats are designed by infrared cameras manufacturers and can have various file extensions Infrared cameras produce images in their own raw file formats usually designed to store only infrared images and nothing else When you connect a visual image to a raw infrared image in IRT Cronista IRT Cronista renames the visual image file to mark that the two images are linked so there are still two files on the disk The analysis data is stored in the third file with the name of infrared image but a different extension nxclt E Group 95180001 35180001 95180001 rxelt 95150001 _ The plus of such an approach is that the original infrared image data is never changed and is kept in the form infrared imager created it The minus is that you get a mess of files on disk and it can be difficult to cope with them To see all linked files and to have access to each of the files individually right click on an infrared image and select Grouped Items from the context menu In the dialog opened you can see all the files connected with the selected
10. also add a comment in the same window below the notations that will contain information unique for a selected image If you need to add a new notation available for other images you have to add it to the set of notations for folder To do this return to New Notations for Folder in File menu or edit the existing set of notations selecting Folder Notations this icon is placed in a folder for which the notations have been created double click this icon to display the Notations Editor for folder If the image has already some notations and you are not sure they are correct you can restore the starting data To do this click on a blank area in notations for image window and choose Clear from the context menu After you confirm the operation all not inherited notations will disappear and only notations assigned for folder will remain Copying notations You can copy a whole notations set or a definite category from one folder image to another To copy a set of notations click on a blank area in the notations window and choose Copy from the context menu Then select other image or folder and in its notations window choose Paste So the notations set will be transferred from one image folder to another If the second item has already had any notations the new set of notations will be added to the earlier created notations 40 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Thermographic analysis Analyzer mode Viewing images in
11. and consequently click on the objects you want to select The active object is always the last clicked one To select all measurement objects on the image press CTRL A To select just certain types of objects use Analysis Select menu Here you can choose to select all spots all lines all areas all notes or all objects in general Hint To switch quickly back to the selection tool after an object placement tool has been used right click on an empty area on the image 59 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Editing labels As you can see every measurement object has its own label showing some information about the object By default labels for measurement spots show the temperature at the spot and labels for lines show the minimum and maximum temperature along the line You can select object s properties to show in the label and add any custom text to a label To edit label settings Pick the selection tool in the toolkit and double click on the label which appearance you want to change or choose Label in the context menu of the measurement object The label settings dialog like in the picture on the right will be displayed Below follows the description of sections contained in the label dialog Text Any user defined text can be entered here Multi line text to start a new line press CTRL ENTER as ENTER will only close the dialog Show properties This field allows you to show and hide any of supp
12. as Documents and Settings Windows or System32 cannot be changed They are required for Windows to run properly If you need to change names of many files it Is much faster to do this with the hot key F2 So you do not need to open Edit or context menu every time you want to rename a file or folder Just press F2 and key in a new name Deleting files and folders To delete an item 1 Find a file or folder you want to delete in the Folder Contents window or in the Folders Tree window 2 Choose Delete from File menu or from the context menu right clicking on the chosen item 3 Press OK in the dialog box that appears usually accompanied by a special sound or press No if you have changed your mind Note Usually deleted files first get into the Recycle Bin and you can restore them until you empty it But you can delete files permanently without sending them into the Recycle Bin if you hold down SHIFT while deleting 28 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Linking visual images to infrared About linking images You can link an infrared image to a usual visual light image Two linked images are displayed and handled by IRT Cronista as one item For example when a report is generated the linked images will appear at the same page and you will not need to choose the corresponding images manually IRT Cronista automatically links images if they are situated in the same folder and have the same filename note that su
13. button again Active and selected items The previewed image is considered to be active The active state of an image is marked by a red border Preview notations comments file info and temperature scale all refer to the active image The selected images there can be several at once are marked by a blue border The grouped operations can be carry out with them such as copying moving deleting playing a slide show printing generating report for selection etc To see which operations are available for a selection of images right click on one of them and see the context menu The images that are neither selected nor active are not marked by special means They have just a thin gray border In the picture below three items are displayed in three possible states active item with a red border selected item with a blue border neither active nor selected item with a thin gray border sample 25190001 gtsample 20 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual File Info and Notations tabs Below the previewed image there is an informational section that has two tabs Notations and File Info If you do not see this section choose Windows Infoview in View menu If Notations tab is selected notations and comments related to the previewed active item are displayed If there is no notes it means that they are not created yet for this folder See the chapter Notations below to learn how to do this While Notations contain t
14. in the summary as you want To add a column click on it and push Add button It will appear in the right part of the dialog which contains the list of selected columns fields To remove a field from the list click on it in the right part of the dialog and push Remove button You can also determine the ordering of fields columns For this use Up and Down buttons Below is an example of how a summary table may look Image Image gt Ne Filename Date Problem Page oe Component overheated may 1 95180001 16 06 7002 1 need replacement 2 95180003 15 05 2001 Circuit hot maybe overloaded 2 3 95180006 17 05 2001 Unknown fault 3 4 95180007 19 05 2001 Unknown fault en Circuit hot maybe overloaded 5 95190001 15052001 m TE SU 5 Temperature annomality 6 95190005 25 05 2001 Fuse clip overheated 6 7 95190013 15 05 2001 Circuit hot maybe overloaded T Ss 95190014 31 05 2001 Circuit hot maybe overloaded 9 95200003 15 05 2001 Fuse clp overheated 9 10 95200007 15 05 2001 Fuse clip overheated 10 11 95200008 22 05 2001 Temperature annomality 16 12 96200001 05 05 2001 Unknown fault 17 Editing Summary Tables To edit a summary just double click on it or push Edit button in the Fields group of the Thermo Reports toolbar This action will open Summary Table Editor where you can remove a column or add a new one To delete a summary move the cursor to any of its cells and push Delete button in the Fields group of the Thermo Reports tool
15. infrared image see the picture at the right Note 82 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual If there are no files linked to the selected infrared image no notations and comments and no linked visual image the menu command Grouped Items is not available GTSI analyzed image format GTSI is a GRAYESS proprietary file format that stores infrared image linked visual image and analysis data in one file When you connect a visual image to a infrared image in IRT Cronista the visual image is written into the infrared image file The analysis data is also saved in this file It is very convenient for example when you want to e mail this three in one file to somebody instead of sending all three separated files Things you should be aware of when keeping images in GTSI format 1 Infrared image data is converted into a proprietary format Image pixels and infrared parameters are kept unchanged so measurement will be as accurate and as functional as for raw format At the same time raw infrared image file may store some additional data known and used only by the internal software of the camera this kind of data may be lost when converted to GISI Because of this we recommend always to keep images backup copy in the raw format 2 Visual images are converted to Jpeg when stored in GTSI files quality loss may occur in some cases they may be reduced in dimensions IRT Cronista will warn you then To convert infrared images to
16. modified VIEW Windows Arrange Icons By Go Refresh Size Paste Type hev Date Modified Properties In Details view you can also sort the images using any of the details as a criterion by clicking on the column heading and click again to reverse the sorting order Preview Between Folders Tree window and Folder Contents window there is a preview window in the Dual layout it is situated at the top of the screen You can view the contents of a file or an image in its normal appearance in the preview window at the left on the picture below Note To show or hide the Preview window press the preview button in the toolbar 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The preview window represents an item folder file image selected in the Folder Contents window at the moment In Thumbnails view the selected active item is marked by the red frame which borders it like in the picture above If you do not need the preview window at the moment you can also close it by simple clicking on a small cross in its top right hand corner Under the image in the preview window you can see two icons with arrows Pressing these buttons you can consecutively glance over all images contained in the open folder If the selected visual image is linked to infrared one the preview window will contain both To see just the infrared image click on the icon below the displayed picture To see both images press this
17. operation of moving is quite similar to copying To move an item 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Open a folder where the file or folder you want to copy is located 3 Click on the file or folder you want to copy with the right mouse button and choose Cut from the context menu This will temporary place a copy of the item in the Clipboard 4 Select the drive or folder you want to copy to and then click Paste in the context menu of this folder or drive Notes All these operations Cut Copy Paste are also contained in the Edit menu To speed up these operations use the combinations of keys to copy press CTRL C to move cut press CTRL X to paste press CTRL V Copying and moving by dragging Another way to copy or move files and folders is to drag them with the mouse It is convenient to drag files from the Folder Contents window on the right of the preview to any folder visible in the Folders Tree window on the left of the preview or to drag files within the Folder Contents window To drag an item 1 2 select the file or folder you want to move Make sure the destination for the file or folder you want to move is visible For example if you are moving a file from the My Documents folder to the desktop you might need to resize IRT Cronista so that the desktop becomes visible Drag the file or folder to the destination To do this simply hold down the left mouse button when clicking on the r
18. requires a hardware key Sentinel SuperPro for execution otherwise it can be run in the trial mode for 30 days After this period IRT Cronista has to be deleted from the system or you have to apply to GRAYESS for getting the license Software requirements IRT Cronista has been designed to work with the following operation systems Microsoft Windows ME Microsoft Windows 2000 XP Vista and higher To use the reporting features of IRT Cronista you will also need Microsoft Word 2000 XP 2003 2007 or higher Hardware requirements Minimum Pentium Ill class PC 128 MB RAM approximately 50 MB of free space on the HDD Video board with at least 16b 65536 colors 800x600 monitor resolution Recommended Pentium Ill 1GHz or higher 256 MB RAM Video board with at least 16b 65536 colors 1280x1024 or better monitor resolution Installation notes Important You must have the administrative privileges in order to install GRAYESS IRT Cronista on Windows NT 2000 XP Vista successfully This is because IRT Cronista installation requires access to areas of the registry that are available only to those with administrator access privileges Administrative privileges are not required to use the software 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Installation procedure Place GRAYESS IRT Cronista installation CD into your CD ROM drive The installation will start automatically If not you can launch it manual
19. spot and connection tools allow to determine the temperature at any point of the analyzed infrared image and automatically show temperature difference between these points can also automatically mark hottest IRT Cronistaand coldest spots in the image The spot tool has several functions depicted below in this topic First of all it functions as under cursor spot temperature flying tool and spot placement tool Under cursor spot temperature flying tool Under cursor spot temperature flying tool is used to check the temperature at any place of the image Activate the spot tool in the toolkit The mouse pointer will change when it is over the active image to show that you have picked the spot tool Then move the mouse pointer over the image to read temperatures under the pointer and show them ina small window near the pointer if in such a moment you make a click with the left mouse button a new measurement object will appear on the image Spot placement tool To place a measurement spot on the image 1 Pick the spot tool from the toolkit X The mouse pointer will change when it is over the active image to show that you have picked the spot placement tool in fact this is under cursor spot temperature flying tool 50 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual 2 Place the pointer at the spot on the image where you want to measure the temperature and click Now you have a new spot on your image with the tempera
20. the Analyzer mode About the Analyzer The Analyzer mode performs thermal analysis of infrared images The Analyzer provides a wide range of tools which can help you to make an exhaustive examination of an infrared image to measure temperature in different spots of an object to determine the hottest and coldest spots to display maximum minimum and average temperature along the line polyline to create temperature profiles and histograms to make necessary marks on an image etc Hint To switch to the Analyzer view click its button in the toolbar 2 Analyzer If you need for example to forecast a hardware breakdown and explain the reason why it may happen you will use the measurement tools to describe it in the most comprehensible way Beside the majority of operations in the Organizer mode the Analyzer mode can perform the thermal analysis of infrared images IRT Cronista is a powerful program which has various measurement tools to present thermal information contained in an infrared image The measurement tools include Under cursor spot temperature flying tool to know the temperature at any point in the image quickly Spot temperature tool to display the temperature value at a point in the image Line tool to be used as graphic object to display the maximum minimum and average temperatures along a line Profile diagram to display the temperature profile along the line Area tool to display the maximum
21. the palette bar see the picture on the left Fire Gray Iron Rain Rain 900 Rainbow RContrast Y Glow R Contrast Yellow Glow United Range and Same Palette options You can apply the same temperature range and the same color palette to all infrared images in the folder In this case the same color at different spots of different images will mean the same temperature at these spots this is true only if other parameters such as emissivity and calibration range coincide United Range To apply the same temperature range to all images in the folder mark the United Range check box In this case the resulting temperature span will be the lowest minimum to the largest maximum of all images temperature spans and it will be applied to display all images in the folder You can also define your own temperature span by clicking on the Custom radio button which again will be applied to all images in the folder If United Range is not marked every image in the folder will have its own temperature range 33 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Same Palette To display all images using the same color palette place a mark in the Same Palette check box Clear the Same Palette check box to allow every image in the folder to have a different palette Changing temperature unit The indicator of temperature unit is situated on the Temperature Scale window IRT Cronista provides the opportunity to choose one of three
22. to Microsoft Word This toolbar is designed to help you to perform the tasks concerned with report creation Da o ey 5 enti Microsoft Word Home Insert Page Layout References Mailungs Review View Add Ins A E Section Break Previous rea 4c Spots pr A Edit Link Notations Pad tv din 3 oe ally o PP I ag Delete Section Next Lt 4 __ i Image Info ax Delete Eda Update infrared Visual Profile Histogram Field Summary Add Page All Plateholders Table Update Report Section Picture Placeholders Fields and Tabict Correcting mistakes If you have noticed that some of the information is not correct or not full and reanalysis is required do not worry you do not need to recreate the complete report again Links to the original images and corresponding analysis collections are stored together with the document You just need to send the element you want to change back to IRT Cronista make necessary correction and send it back to the report To edit an image or a diagram in IRT Cronista 1 Click the item you want to edit once to make it active 2 Press Edit button in the Thermo Reports toolbar IRT Cronista will open with the needed image shown in the Analyzer mode 3 Make needed correction in IRT Cronista and push the Apply to Report button in the toolbar to apply the changes or Cancel button to ignore the changes and return to Word Hint Another way to make any corrections is to double click an item you
23. will be generated just for one selected image that is active at the moment You can also reach the Create Report for Image command in the context menu of an infrared image In the second case all infrared images in the folder will be sent to the report But often you do not need to export all the images you have For such cases IRT Cronista provides opportunity to generate a report for the custom selection of images To create a report for selection 1 In Folder Contents window that usually displays thumbnails of images select infrared images you need to export to the report To select consecutive images click the first item press and hold down SHIFT and then click the last item To select nonconsecutive images press and hold down CTRL and then click each item Right click on one of the marked images to display the context menu Choose Create Report for Selection to generate a report by the selected images 4 Inthe Template Selection dialog choose the template and press Run oo N 64 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Editing generated reports After IRT Cronista has generated the report you most likely will want to check it or make additional comments You should feel free here as the generated report is a usual Word document and you can use allthe Word features For instance you can draw an arrow connecting the problem zones at the infrared and visual images IRT Cronista adds its own Thermo Reports toolbar
24. ER LOCATION Location Minsk Equipment No 4 Motor Controller 78 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Printing and exporting data to other formats Printing images and other data IRT Cronista provides options for printing infrared images visual images image details and diagrams The way how the images will be printed depends on the active mode In the Organizer mode infrared image thumbnails without associated data will be printed approximately 18 thumbnails per an A4 page In the Analysis mode one infrared image with all analysis details diagrams linked visual image and notations will be printed at every page similar to how it looks on the Analysis mode screen For even greater flexibility you can copy and paste images image details visual images and diagrams into documents in other applications such as word processor to produce fully customized prints Or you can generate reports in Microsoft Word and print them see Reports in Microsoft Word for more details Print Setup in the File menu allows you to change the printer used to print the images and associated data the way it is set up the paper size and orientation Print preview To check how the images will appear when they are printed choose Print All Preview from the File menu to display the print preview window The whole pages is shown when the preview window is first displayed although you will not be able to see all the small deta
25. GTSI format 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Select the images you want to convert 3 Right click on one of the selected images and choose Convert to GTSI from the context menu 4 Follow the instructions on the screen you can overwrite the original file or keep GTSI files in a special folder subfolder recommended Note If an infrared image has analysis data and a visual image connected to it this additional data will be automatically included in the resulting GTSI image 83 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Keyboard shortcuts This is the list of hot keys used in IRT Cronista F1 to open IRT Cronista help system F2 to rename an item F5 to refresh the application look F7 to switch to the standard layout F8 to switch to the filmstrip layout F9 to switch to the dual layout CTRL A to select all items in current folder CTRL C to copy an item CTRL D to disconnect one or more pares of wrongly connected visual and infrared images CTRL E to open the contents of current folder in Windows Organizer CTRL F to show or hide the Folders Tree window CTRL G to link visual image to infrared CTRL I to invert selection CTRL P to open the Print dialog CTRL S to save changes for active item CTRL V to paste an item CTRL X to cut move an item CTRL Y to redo your last action CTRL Z to undo your last action CTRL SHIFT I to show or hide the Infoview window in the Org
26. Gad My Network Places C retin B Recyde tn O Acioooumerts and settingsiMors ag QD cromice Danaher Ur Je mA rn rn o 0 mene ajia Pom A d c m Fa ow org ad od amp Pe order yee ORD ot amp po eke 11 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Making a report using your images This section shows you how to produce a report based on the images you have captured You will use one of the standard report templates supplied with IRT Cronista but it is easy to edit the resulting report or create your own customized template to include any information you need and to use your own layout and format Follow these four easy steps to create your first report with IRT Cronista To create a test report 1 Push button in the toolbar to show the Template Selection dialog like in the below with the available list of report templates 2 Click on an template item to select it and see its preview in the left part of the dialog 3 Press Run to transfer infrared images and associated data into a Microsoft Word document which will contain your report 4 The report is ready Microsoft Word is shown with your report opened Now you can make the final adjustments and save the result F Template Selection O x EJ E Shared templates Templates shared by all folders on this computer Preview Ton pa sf Vaud mage Sample Minsk old Sample Orlanda All Templates Only
27. Here you can go to a folder with your infrared images that you want to analyze To show or hide this window choose View Folders or press CTRL F Zooming the images IRT Cronista can magnify any image to up to 1000 which will allow you to see the value of every detector separately and help you positioning measurement tools more precisely Hint Control images zoom by the zoom combo box in the toolbar 150 T a Zoom In and Zoom Out In order to change the zoom factor of images simply use Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons in the toolbar or the same commands in the context menu This will increase or decrease the size of the analyzed infrared image When an image is zoomed to such size that it does not fit to the window additional Zoom window automatically opens to help you to see where the zoomed part is located ae BH QANAMA RAX Zoom 50 95200007 X kJ 44 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Custom zoom You can also select or key in the needed zoom into the zoom combo box It can possess any value from 25 to 1000 sox AG Auto zoom Auto zoom calculates the zoom factor so that the image fits the size of the analysis window To apply auto zoom to the image select Auto in the zoom combo box or right click on the image and choose Zoom Auto in the image context menu When the auto zoom is selected in zoom combo box the zoom percent Is accompanied by the letter A in brackets 226 8 Stand
28. Local Only Shared Cancel In the picture on the next page there is an example of how your report may look As you see it may contain both infrared and visual images with the measurement marks you have placed notes and information concerning the analyzed object different profiles and histograms and other information you wish to be included there 12 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual GORATEC Technology Oni Co KG Omer 21 Phan 45 19 5222 33 cs 315 Identification 95190003 ctsample Fault Description ed Man K Men FFI Ave AL PT Inspection Time 1200 00 15 05 2001 Working conditions ANANI Wh _ Aes Se ee ee ee Se i 9 40 60 20 196 im ist Pre et Reoeir immediately Fiat roof membranes are Te weterproc barriers between te ouice Clements anc the Interior of Oulicings They come In 2 variety of materials ard designe and mum De able O eegend anc contac resist high winds and fe efecs of solar recieton and wien foot vame Itis easy see W roots lesk Virak 10 04 7004 GORATEC egrreserg Gb 13 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Application structure Organizer and Analyzer modes IRT Cronista combines file management thermal analysis and image database functionality in the convenient all in one environment automating routine tasks and saving much of your work and time Like Windows Explorer IRT Cronista displays the hierarchical structure of files folders and drives on y
29. SOC E 095 Cabaret ALS BSS 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Main menu toolbar and address bar Buttons to switch between Organizer and Analyzer modes Folders Tree window Folder Contents window displays the contents of the folder selected in the folders tree window Temperature scale and palette Preview window the active item preview An infrared image connected to a visual image Notations for the active previewed item Comments for the active previewed item Soe ee OMNDU Opening images files and folders You can select a folder you want to examine in the left part of the screen in the folders tree window that displays the tree of folders on your computer and network neighborhood The contents of a selected folder open in the folder contents window at the right The exact address of a selected folder is written in the address bar The address bar can be also used to point the way to the needed folder or drive For example if you select C drive in the address bar C drive s folders will be represented at once in the folder tree and you will see C drive s contents in the folder contents window In many ways the Organizer mode duplicates the functionality of Windows Explorer In the toolbar you can find the standard set of buttons such as Back Forward and Up buttons which will help you to reach the folder you need at the earliest possible time O hi gt hi B C Documents and Settings Mon
30. anizer mode or the Analysis Details window in the Analyzer mode CTRL SHIFT S to save changes made to all images in current folder CTRL SHIFT T to show or hide the Temperature Scale window in both modes CTRL SHIFT W to show or hide the Preview window in the Organizer mode or Image Thumbnails in the Analyzer mode ALT RightArrow to go to the next folder ALT LeftArrow to go to the previous folder 84 2007 GRAYESS Inc
31. ard zoom The standard zoom factor is used when infrared images are exported to reports For 320 x 240 images the standard zoom is 100 for 160 x 120 it is 200 for larger images It can be less than 100 To know what is the size of your image see image properties below the analyzed image When the standard zoom is selected in zoom combo box the zoom percent is accompanied by the letter S in brackets 100 3 fe Note The underlying image pixel data is not scaled so any analysis tools used to take measurements from the image will take their measurements from the same data and will not suffer rounding errors from the scaling Single and multi image analysis IRT Cronista has two options to analyze images single image analysis and multi image analysis 45 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual In case of single image analysis only one image Is available in the analysis window In case of multi image analysis you can see several images in the analysis window at once simply adjust the zoom factor To switch to the multi image analysis make sure that the button in the analysis toolkit is depressed which corresponds to the Multi lmage Analysis command in the View menu To switch to the single image analysis make sure that this button is not depressed Multi image analysis allows to compare images and values at certain points This also allows to put analysis objects onto several images at once How many images at
32. as drawn on the z image Histogram s Spots Spots placeholder creates a table with spots information value position etc Image Info placeholder creates a table for such image data as filename size i Image Inidate time different temperature parameters and other data taken form the camera and stored with image Below is the example how placeholders look in the template left picture and how they are filled with information in the report right picture Eee OAO Area I Wax S62 Mn 4370 fr 48 0 hih u 46 Tenpera we 0 Histogram C 72 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Notes Profile histogram and spots placeholders are filled with information only if there are corresponding measurement objects on the image The same is for visual image placeholder if there is no visual image connected to infrared the placeholder will not be replaced with an image Such placeholders as Infrared Visual Image Info can be used only once in one section Histograms and profiles can be used twice and more It is convenient when you have more then one line or area drawn on the image In any cases a profile contains diagrams for all line objects drawn on the image But if a template contains more then one profile each profile has its own main line that is drawn in bold red In the Placeholders group of the Thermo Reports toolbar there is also a button All Placeholders that can help you to insert notations
33. at you want to move the new folder to a different location you can easily move it and its contents by selecting the folder and dragging it to the new location Creating a new folder To create a new folder 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Open a folder where you want to have a new folder for example My Documents 3 Choose New Folder in the File menu or right click on a blank area in the folders contents window pointing to New and then clicking Folder or just press the appropriate button in the toolbar 4 Anew folder is displayed with the default name New Folder selected 5 Type a name for the new folder and then press ENTER Copying and moving files or folders Copying means that you create a duplicate of a file in other location So you can have the same file in several folders On the contrary if you are moving a file it means that this operation will change its location the file will be deleted from one folder and will appear in another one To copy an item 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Open a folder where the file or folder you want to copy is located 3 Click on the file or folder you want to copy with the right mouse button and choose Copyfrom the context menu This will temporary place a copy of the item in the clipboard 26 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual 4 Select the drive or folder you want to copy to and then click Paste in the context menu of this folder or drive The
34. ayed with up to two digits precision after the decimal separator These settings will be used everywhere in the program 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Getting started This article shows you how to get started using IRT Cronista If you work through the procedures described you will see how easy is to create good looking and informative reports The next chapters in the manual show you the full power and flexibility of IRT Cronista with options and functions allowing you to customize both the information contained in reports and their appearance Before you start This topic assumes that you have installed the software If you prefer to work through the examples given below you should also have the sample images provided with IRT Cronista The samples by default are placed in My Documents folder of the user who has installed the software though during the installation you can point out another location for these files Q O Smet masam Yq one Brose Gp JR TPIT 7 95180001 x infrared Sangis iE Scale a 3 Destop A 126 E My Documents SO kired Samples ov 120 gt Report Templates iE pap 9 Lines L My Musc D My Pktures FAP B 106 2 er 110 gt My Received Pies UA 40 F1 O Snagh Catalog O Updater a Y My Computer 100 H SQ My Network Places g Recycle bin Folder Not Sons Report Templates 0 o 70 60 o nelle Notations for vok edit mode 39 Customer A Honeywel B
35. bar Sometimes you may need to update a summary table This can happen for example when you delete images from the report or add new images To update a summary move the cursor there and push Update button in the Fields group of the Thermo Reports toolbar 76 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Note A document can have more then one summary table for example at the beginning presenting contents and at the end presenting results of inspection Notations placeholder and fields There are two ways to insert notations into report One way is to use notation placeholder In this case all notation chosen for the image will be copied into one place as picture Another way to insert image notations into the report is by using fields Use fields when you want to insert notations from different categories in different places on the page Notations placeholder The notations placeholder is filled with a picture showing all notations selected for an infrared image This placeholder is additional that means that you will not find a button in the Thermo Reports toolbar assigned specially for this placeholder To insert notations placeholder 1 Click the All Placeholders button 4 Placeholders to show the list of additional placeholders 2 In the All Placeholders dialog select Notations and click Insert to insert the notations placeholder 3 Customer Jones Roofing gt Location Munich 3 Equipment Mo 4 Motor Co
36. ch images have the same filename but not the same extension and in some other cases as well if it is possible to determine the correspondence In other cases you have to link the images manually and IRT Cronista has many possibilities to help you Linking images by copy and paste To link an infrared and a visual images by copy and paste 1 Switch to the Organizer mode 2 Go to the folder with visual images right click on the visual image you want to link and choose Cut in the context menu or Copy if you want to create a linked copy of the visual image 3 Goto the folder with infrared images right click on the infrared image you what to link Analyze Convert to TSI Export Grouped Items Delete Open Rename Open With Treat as Infrared Print Selection Properties Create Report for Image EN Copy s Cut X Delete Rename Properties T ol ba a ok EE el Ed 5200001 95190014 52000033 55200001 29 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Notes You can only copy cut a visual image and paste it on an infrared image but not the opposite If the images you are linking are in different folders the visual image will be moved or copied to the folder with the infrared image You can use keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process CTRL C to copy CTRL X to move cut CTRL G to paste and link Linking images by drag and drop To link an infrared and a visual images
37. ck stop button go to the next frame you can manually go through the sequence showing one frame after another go to the previous frame Auto repeat means that the sequence is repeated from the first frame after the last frame in the sequence is played You can also go through the sequence using playing slider From the right of the slider image name and its sequence number are displayed S EE 4 of 17 25180007 gtsample You can maximize or minimize the Sequence Player window in order to fit zoom factor Zoom combo box is situated at the top of the window 25 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Operations with files and folders Files and folders Operations with files and folders are pretty much similar to those in Windows Explorer Most Windows tasks involve working with files and folders Windows uses folders to provide a storage system for the files on your computer just as you use manila folders to organize information in a filing cabinet Folders can contain many different types of files such as documents music images videos and programs You can copy and move files from other locations such as another folder computer or the compact flash card with images from your camera to folders you create You can even create folders within folders For example if you are creating and storing files in the My Documents folder you can make a new folder within My Documents to contain the files If you decide th
38. cting language IRT Cronista is available in several languages To change the interface language 1 Choose Language from the File menu to display the Select Language dialog box 2 Select the language from the list of available languages 3 Press OK to apply the new language Warning The new language will be applied only during the next start of IRT Cronista Selecting temperature unit If you also need to change the temperature tins unit IRT Cronista provides such opportunity You can choose one of three possible Regional Settings f Interface language Temperature unit EMEA units Celsius Fahrenheit and Kelvin Date format To change the temperature unit 1 Choose Settings from the Tools menu to display the Settings dialog Meptlle Temperature precision 2 Select a new langu age and a new Image export Format Digits after decimal separator temperature unit Celsius Fahrenheit and Kelvin are available 3 Press OK to apply the changes This Change of some settings do not take effect until the application is also requires restarting of the restarted application Other settings In addition to language and temperature unit in this dialog Tools Settings you can also assign some other settings as Date format dd MM yyyy MM dd yyyy yyyy MM dd Image export format Print optimized metafile or Screen optimized bitmap and Digits after decimal separator temperature values can be displ
39. de s p My Compter Gad My Network Places gj Recycle fin fk LOG IVY Ta ISOC LOS 1 Active image with analysis objects on it 2 Measurement Details concerning active image notations comments linked visual image 42 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Properties of the active object or image Profile diagram s Analysis toolkit with all the measurement tools Infrared and linked visual images in the active folder Buttons to switch between Organizer and Analyzer modes Temperature scale and palettes window 9 Folders tree eae ee Many elements and windows are similar to those in the Organizer mode For instance you can find here the Temperature Scale window the Folder Tree window the main menu toolbar and address bar all the same as in the Organizer mode Below follows a brief description of several elements Analysis window Folder Contents window Temperature scale and palette and Folder tree Analysis window The central part of the screen is occupied by the analyzed infrared image The analyzed infrared image is accompanied by Measurement Details on the right and Analysis Details at the bottom As you can see form the picture above the Analysis Details under the image consist of two parts information section and profile diagram The Measurement Details on the right of the analyzed image include three parts notations chosen for the active image comments and linked
40. e button in the toolkit all selected objects will be deleted You can also delete all objects of some type by choosing corresponding item in the Analysis Delete menu Dew Point Dew Point option allows to define zones of possible condensation To do an inspection of accumulation of dew choose Analysis Dew Point This option is available only in the Analyzer mode Dew Point dialog shows automatically calculated temperature when the dew forms It depends primarily on relative air humidity and atmosphere temperature These values are taken from the camera But you can set them manually if you have more precise data If you change relative humidity or atmosphere temperature then Dew Point temperature will also change Moreover you can determine Dew Point temperature of your own For that put a check mark near Dew Point combo box and key in the needed value If there is a check mark near Show dew point isotherm IRT Cronista marks dew zones visually with green color If you do not want dew zones to be shown graphically on the image just remove this mark Click OK to close the dialog and leave the results on the image Click Cancel to return to the image in its initial look Dew Point Dew Point Calculator Dew point C a 22 1 Atmosphere temp C Rel humidity Isotherm Show dew point isotherm 61 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Generating reports Generating reports i
41. e clip overheated 5 Recommendation Notations File Info 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The preview window becomes larger At the same time the information part below with notations and comments and Folder Contents window on the right decrease Moreover you can hide or show some windows To do this use Windows in the View menu or Windows in the context menu to show or hide one or another window Playing sequences slide shows IRT Cronista includes Sequence Player which enables you to open and view sequence files files that contain sequences of infrared images for example IRS files play separate images consequently as if they were a sequence runa slide show with infrared images Playing separate images To play a selection of images 1 Select infrared images you want to play To select consecutive images click the first item press and hold down SHIFT and then click the last item To select nonconsecutive files or folders press and hold down CTRL and then click each item To select all images in the folder press CTRL A 2 Choose Play from the Tools menu or from the context menu to display Sequence Player 3 Press the Play button to start Playing sequence files To play a sequence double click the sequence file to open it in the Sequence Player and press the Play button To play more than one sequence one after another mark all sequences you want to play and choose Play fro
42. e keyboard focus is at another window the notations Munich window shows only the selected notations In our Equipment example we have specified Location Minsk to be Pump starter chosen by default this is why only this notation is visible Ge Problem Class Maybe Fault when the focus is not at the notations editor F Problem To show all available notations click on the notations USS a heated editor window it will go into the editing mode and you will be able to select new or change the already selected rments notations To see all available notations permanently Jautomobile transportation including the without regard to what window is active at the moment 978 by trucks is a typical method of _ transportation 45 the number of vehicles place a check mark near Lock edit mode produced increases Notations File Info 39 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Editing notations for images If the set of notations does not have the note you need for an image you can add it In this case only this image will have the added note To create an additional notation for an image do the same steps as creating notations for a folder or use the context menu click on a blank area of the notations window that contains the full list of commands for editing Insert Category Insert Notation Add Neighbor Delete Rename Copy Past Move Up Move Down Single Selection Multiple Selection etc Here you can
43. e second square button allows choosing several notations at once In our example we should change the allowed selection for categories Location Equipment and Problem Class to single selection To do this select the necessary category with the left mouse button and press the appropriate button in the toolbar If you want some of the notations to be selected by default for all images in the folder place a mark near these notations Minsk in our example 36 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To speed up the process you can move up and down through the list of categories and notations using the up down arrows on the keyboard and put check marks with the space button Notations Editor toolbar In the toolbar of the Notations Editor window there are some useful buttons that will help you creating and editing notations creates a new category notation or neighbor undoes the last action s redoes the last action s renames a selected category or notation deletes selected notation or a whole category with all notations in it moves a category or a notation up changing their sequence order moves a category or a notation down changing their sequence order allows single choice in the category allows multiple choice in the category determines the inheritance status if the inheritance is turned on the current folder will inherit notations form folders on higher level if there are such if not the cu
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45. emperature Scale window The temperature scale and the color palette for the active infrared image or all infrared images in the viewed folder depending on the current setup is shown at the right hand side of the main window The temperature scale window shows the temperature range selected for displaying it against the palette it gives the correspondence between temperatures and the palette of colors used to represent them If you do not need the temperature scale window at the moment you can temporary hide it by clicking on the sigh in its top right hand corner Selecting the temperature span and palette Temperature span You have three options to set the displayed temperature range for an image 1 Preset range is the temperature span defined when the image was taken by the camera 2 Auto range is from the minimum temperature to the maximum temperature on the image 3 By clicking on Custom range radio button you can define the temperature range limits of your own Custom Range Limits Upper Limit Lower Limit Same Palette 32 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Palettes Palette is a number of colors to display temperature differences IRT Cronista has a wide selection of pseudo color palettes that can be used to display infrared images Sometimes one palette suits better to reveal the problem than the other To change the palette select its name from the palettes combo box under
46. ent periodically inserting images and analysis data Even though IRT Cronista gives many possibilities to speed up this process you will have to import and place every image manually in this case The advantage is that it does not require a prior created report template This method should be also used when you need to edit an already existing report Generating reports using templates To generate a report using a template you should already have a report template Use one of the templates included with GRAYESS IRT Cronista or create your own see Custom report templates for details Before creating a report you need to make the Thermographic analysis of your infrared images It is easier also to define notations and comments see Notations and link visual images see Linking visual images to infrared in IRT Cronista before creating the report than to do it later while editing the report in Word though it is possible to do it even then 62 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To generate the report for all images in the active folder 1 Choose Create Report for Folder from the Tools menu or push button in the main toolbar it does not matter whether you are in the Organizer or Analyzer mode at the moment The Template Selection dialog opens see Template Selection dialog for details 2 Select a report template by clicking on it in the right hand field of the dialog 3 Click the Run button IRT Cronista will go th
47. equired file or folder When you begin to drag the file the cursor changes its form When you keep on dragging and the cursor reaches a folder drive or desktop it changes its appearance again and the folder under cursor becomes selected The file you have chosen will be copied into the folder you have selected when the left mouse button is released Notes If you drag an item while pressing the right mouse button instead of the left button you can move copy or create a shortcut to the file in its new location Just choose the necessary option from offered menu This menu appears when you release the button 27 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual If you drag an item to a folder located on the same disk the item will be moved To copy the item instead of moving it press and hold down CTRL while dragging If you drag an item to another disk or drive it is copied not moved To move the item press and hold down SHIFT while dragging Changing the name of a file or folder To rename an item 1 Open a folder where the file or folder you want to change name of is located 2 Click on the file or folder you want to rename 3 Choose Rename in the File menu or in the context menu of this file click on it with the right mouse button to make the context menu appear 4 Type anew name and then press ENTER Notes File names cannot contain the following characters lt gt The names of system folders such
48. ese templates and change them by choosing Report Templates in the Tools menu and selecting the Only Shared tab Local templates are private for a folder They are available only when making reports for images located in the same folder or its sub folders To view these templates select Only Local tab in report templates dialog 66 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Report Templates dialog contains the list of all installed templates shared and local for the current user every user has different shared templates templates are shared by the folders on your computer and not by the users of the computer In many ways the report templates dialog is similar to the Template Selection dialog Here you can rename copy delete drag files edit a template and create a new one use templates context menu or local toolbar The main window is not blocked when sIRT Cronistahared report templates dialog is displayed So you can copy templates from or to other locations on your computer The field at the bottom of the window shows the location of the selected template Creating a new report template To create a new template 1 Open Report Templates dialog or Template Selection dialog choosing Create Report or Report Templates in the Tools menu 2 Choose Only Local or Only Shared tab depending on the type of the template you need 3 Click the New Template button in the toolbar 4 Type the name for the new temp
49. ght picture unselect objects click on the image at a place where there is no measurement objects Note that the details given depend on the type of camera used 95180006 95160006 Sample Thermo 15052001 Ta 311 C E 1 00 Sample Thermo 15053001 Ta FLI E L00 fang fang fang message far fang lang long reading and printing ferry berg lang message far ang lang bong reading and printing Ambient temp Emissivity Date camera 15 05 2001 Averaging Time camera 13 42 53 020 Temp Offset Serial number Min Temp range fica Max Calibration range Avr Ambient temp Node 1 189 79 Emissivity Node 2 309 145 Atmosphere temp Rel humidity Dew point long long long message for lo Restore original double click here 58 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Image properties display the information taken from the camera Some of them cannot be changed such as Image size in pixels temperature range calibration range and sensitivity Such properties are written in gray color Other properties like date time ambient or atmosphere temperature emissivity humidity etc can be changed manually They are written in black If you have changed something you can always restore the starting image parameters which were set up in the camera during image capture To restore original image parameters double click against Restore original in the list of image properties Measurement object properties contain besides emissivity ambient
50. he analysis details window So if you have drawn a line or polyline and still do not see its profile in the right bottom corner of the screen this is probably because the Analysis Details window is not shown To show this window choose Analysis Details from View Windows submenu If you place more than one line on the image all of them will be drawn in the same window with different colors T a T E cu cy C p T D i Pixels Profile of the active line is always drawn with a bold pen Additional statistics like minimum or maximum refer only to the active line Notes Though all profiles are displayed in the same window on the screen it can be different in a report if you place two placeholders for profiles in the report template In this case your report will have profiles in two places Using the context menu of the profile window right click on the window you can copy the diagram into the clipboard or change properties of the displayed line object Area tool and histograms The area tool can be used to place an area object rectangle ellipse or polygon on the image You can use areas on the image for several purposes to display the maximum minimum and average temperature within this area to display the temperature distribution histogram in this area To draw an area on the image 54 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual 1 Pick an area sub tool from the toolkit by c
51. he notes created by yourself File Info that consists of Image Info and File Details contains some information automatically defined by the computer or taken from the camera image size name location date time of capture different temperature parameters emissivity sensitivity etc Some of these parameters you can change by yourself though you can always restore the starting data just double click on Restore originals at the bottom of Image Info list You can hide comments and notations or image info and file details bellow the picture clicking on the notations icon This will enlarge the image in the preview window Notations and comments will temporarily disappear until you press this button again Layouts You can arrange windows in the most convenient way to perform the current task For this IRT Cronista has several predefined window layouts standard filmstrip and dual Layout selection is made in the Layouts menu You can switch between different layouts using hot keys F7 corresponds to the standard layout F8 to the filmstrip layout F9 to the dual layout Every layout has two variants vertical and horizontal Depending on images proportions resolution and orientation of your monitor one or the other variant will be more preferable You can choose one or another variant in the same Layout menu The three mentioned layouts differ from each other for the position of the preview window together with notatio
52. heritance can be turned off You can also create Notations Briefcase which will contain any number of sets of notations from which you choose the set you need for selected folder Creating sets of notations This topic depicts how to create a set of notations for a folder or shared notations for all folders This set of notations will be assigned to all images in this folder and its subfolders lt remains only to mark necessary check boxes when working at a certain image to have ready notes concerning particularly this image To create a set of notations use the special Notations Editor that is a part of IRT Cronista Notations are divided into groups by means of categories So before creating a new notation it is necessary to specify which category it belongs to As an example let us use the following notations Location Minsk Munich New York Equipment Pump starter Motor controller Lighting breaker Problem Class No fault Maybe a fault Definitely a fault Problem Circuit hot maybe overloaded Temperature annomality Fuse clip overheated Location Equipment Problem and Problem Class are the categories of notations in our example 35 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual For every category it is possible to specify how many notations from this category can be simultaneously selected one or many For example for categories Location Equipment and Problem Class it is meaningless to select several nota
53. ils you will be able to see the general layout A row of buttons at the top of the window allows you to control the way the window displays the preview Press Print to print all pages as they appear in the preview Press Next Page if images and their associated data cover more than one page and you want to see the next page The button will be grayed if you are viewing the final page Press Prev Page if images and their associated data cover more than one page and you want to go back to an earlier page The button will be grayed if you are viewing the first page Press Two Page if images and their associated data cover more than one page and you want to view two pages side by side at the same time The button changes to One Page when you are in two page mode so that you can change back to viewing one page at atime 19 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Press Zoom In for a magnified view of the previewed page When you move the pointer over the page in the preview window it changes to a magnifier and clicking on the page has the same effect as pressing Zoom In unless the page is already at maximum magnification when it displays the page at minimum magnification Press Zoom Out to return to a less magnified view of the previewed page Press Close to close the print preview window and return to the main IRT Cronista window Printing in the Organizer mode In the Organizer mode infrared images will be
54. image to measure temperature in different points of an object to determine the hottest and coldest spots to display maximum minimum and average temperature along the line polyline to create temperature profiles and histograms to make necessary marks on an image etc See the chapter Thermographic analysis for details Most of the functionality is available in both modes You select by yourself which mode suits you better for the task you are doing at the moment Hint To switch between Organizer and Analyzer click the corresponding button in the toolbar 14 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Organizer mode Viewing images files and folders About the Organizer The Organizer mode suits better for organizing files and folders on your computer that is for such operations as copying deleting renaming and creating new folders In this mode you can link infrared images with their visual counterparts edit and create new sets of notations add comments change the color palette and displayed temperature range modify properties of infrared images etc Hint To switch to the Organizer view click its button in the toolbar In the picture below you see the structure of the main window when the Organizer mode is activated Ele Ect yew Ansys Too Help O SD CQ C Documents and Seting Mord le Qo p e eg i s 3 mA QA GY MA X 4 O a 95180001 fk LO6 2 Sample Therme 16062002 Te I
55. ions de cuts notations and places them into the clipboard E copies notations to the clipboard paste the data from the clipboard 38 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual allows you to update Notations Briefcase on your Pocket PG In this case Notations Briefcase folder in the PPC will be overwritten To use any set from Notations Briefcase choose New Notations from Briefcase in the context menu of current folder Then click on the necessary set and push Assign button Selecting notations for images To have notations available for an image it is necessary to have some set of notations assigned to the folder where the image is located or to a folder of higher level The notations editor for images is located below the preview window or to the right from it If you have selected an image and do not see the notations editor do the following steps to show it To show the notations editor for image 1 Make sure that it is selected to display the preview window check if there is a check mark near Windows Preview item in the View menu Make sure that it is selected to display the infoview window check if there is a check mark near Windows Infoview item in the View menu In the bottom part of the window where you see two tabs Notations and File Info choose Notations Notations Lock edit mode Two modes of Notations Editor for images Customer Honeywell Buildings and Controls C Location If th
56. late and click OK 5 Microsoft Word opens with the a special template that have already structure and contains hints to help you create your own template 6 Edit the template placing necessary placeholders and fields Follow the hints and then delete them 7 Close Word you will be prompted to save the changes As the result a new template will appear It can be shared or local template Note that to create a shared template you should choose Only Shared tab in template selection or report templates dialog step 2 To create a local template you should first of all go to the folder you want to create a template for and in Template Selection or Report Templates dialog you should choose Only Local tab The alternative way to create a new template is to choose File New Templates for Folder Local templates are stored in the special subfolder named Report Templates This subfolder is created automatically When you create a new template for folder IRT Cronista locates it in report templates folder 67 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual E Folder Notations Report Templates 95180001 Making a copy of an existing template Do not worry if you have created a template in a wrong place You can easily copy templates from one location to another Making a copy of an existing template is similar to making a copy of any other file To copy a template 1 Right click the template you want to make a copy of 2
57. lected images and choose Print Selection in the context menu 80 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Exporting infrared images to other formats By using this function you can convert infrared images to a common picture format such as JPEG or Bitmap or to a text format Such as CSV or TXT To export infrared images to other formats 1 Select the infrared images you want to convert in the folder view available in both the Organizer and Analyzer modes 2 Choose Export from the Tools menu or from the context menu The Export dialog will be displayed 3 Specify necessary export settings see the description below 4 Press Export to save converted images Export dialog In the Export dialog you can specify where to save the converted images Definition folder There are two choices to save them in the same with infrared images folder or to save them in a subfolder In the second case you also need to key in a name for the subfolder Select the Format of the resulting pictures by clicking the corresponding item in the formats list BMP JPEG TIFF PNG CSV TXT To include the temperature scale in the resulting pictures check Include temperature scale To show measurement objects on the resulting image check Include analysis information You can change the size of the resulting pictures by specifying the magnification factor in the Resize combo box Destination Folder Place images in the source Folder
58. licking on the small rectangle near the area tool button and choosing the type of the area that you need The pointer will change when it is over the active image to show you have picked the tool 2 Position the pointer where you want the upper left corner of the area to begin and press the left mouse button to start creating area object Then holding the button drag the pointer to the position where you want the right bottom corner to be or to place the next joint point in the case of polygon and release the button In case of polygon consequently click in the image on places where you want to create new vertices 3 To complete polygon creation and be able to place other objects click on any tool in the toolkit When you create an area object IRT Cronista automatically creates a histogram and shows it in the diagram window at the screen bottom Area histogram presents more thermal information about an area Histogram is a diagram showing temperature distribution in an area In other words for every temperature you can see haw many pixels fall into this range Histogram q Areal Max 83 2 C Min 30 0 C Avr 52 8 C 2 88 50 55 60 Temperature C Hint The histogram section is a part of the Analysis Details window So if you have drawn an area and still do not see its profile in the right bottom corner of the screen this is probably because the Analysis Details window is not shown To show this window choose Analysis
59. lipse and polygon To select a sub tool click on the small rectangle on the tool button in the toolkit Note The analysis toolkit as well as Analysis menu are available only in the Analyzer mode To switch to the Analyzer mode press the Analyzer button in the toolbar Analyzer Active selected not selected objects Every measurement object can be in one of the following states active and selected only one for every image selected several is allowed not selected This picture shows objects in all three states se Line 1 is active black Min 35 5 squares around Max 75 6 C ome Spots A and B are selected BE 81 6 C AE 89 8 C_ white squares around Line 2 Is neither active nor Line 2 selected Min 346 Max 68 2 C 49 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To select an object pick up the selection tool and click on this object The object becomes selected and active To unselect a measurement object click on another object or on a blank area in the image When there is no active object the whole image is decided active When a measurement object is active its parameters are shown below in the Analysis Details window If none object is active the Analysis Details window displays the image properties Operations which require one object take the active object Operations that can handle more than one object take the selected objects Spot tool and connection tool The
60. ly To start up the installation manually 1 Open your CD ROM drive 2 Insert the disc with the program 3 Double click on Setup exe 4 Follow the instructions on the screen First of all the Installation Wizard will ask you to point out licence type If you have the hardware key select Sentinel protected If not choose Key code protected and key in the installation code You can also determine the location where the program will be installed When deciding between two options Complete or Custom setup type take into account that in case of the Complete setup the application will be installed with samples by default they are installed to My Documents but you can specify the location by yourself in case of the Custom setup you can choose to not install IRT Cronista samples Note If this is your first examination of IRT Cronista and you are going to learn how to use the program with this manual choose complete setup with samples since many of the examples in this manual are based on these sample files Warning at the end the installation program might ask you to restart your computer Note During the first start if you have the hardware protection key insert it into the printer or USB port Then double click on IRT Cronista icon on the desktop The program is ready to be 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Application overview Selecting language and temperature unit Sele
61. m the Tools menu or from the context menu You can also play separate images together with sequences If you select them all Sequence Player Sequence Player is opened in a separate window see the picture on the next page In Sequence Player you can read the temperature at any point of an image pointing the mouse over it This feature functions like the spot temperature flying tool Sequence Player has its own independent temperature scale and palette When playing sequences and slide shows it displays the same color palette for all played images You can choose the palette that fits you better in the palettes combo box set temperature range in the same way as you do in the Organizer or Analyzer modes 24 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual E Sequence Player Current track 95180003 96200001 Rainbow Range Preset Auto Custom 5 of 16 J 95190003 4 E b 44 be V Auto repeat Playback speed 20 frames w per second When Sequence Player opens a sequence it shows the average speed at which frames of this sequence were recorded To change the playback speed use Playback speed combo boxes at the bottom of Sequence Player Specify the number of frames played per second or specify a delay between frames in seconds ojos T At the left bottom part of the Sequence Player window there is a set of buttons to help you control the playing process play the sequence forward play the sequence ba
62. n but if the cursor is situated at the very first position the summary is inserted before the current section 5 Use Microsoft Word features to format your table for instance Table Tools Design and Layout toolbars Summary Table Editor MM Summary Table Editor lt Avalable columns Selected columns Image Camera Image Filename C t Problem EN Page Number Spot value Emissivity Ambient temp The list of selected fields Correction mode columns of the summary Transmission The list of Distance available fields Rel humidity Atmosphere temp Line Area Notations Special Up and Down buttons to controll columns ordering Temperature value at the spot Description of f the selected field Spots lines or areas Index Buttons to add fields to the summary or remove them 19 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Summary Table Editor is pretty similar to Report Fields Editor In the left part of the dialog there is a list of all available fields grouped under several categories Click on any field ina category and below you will see the description of this field The list of fields is the same as in Report Fields Editor with the exception of Special category that contains two fields Number which means number of section or number of infrared image in the report and Page Number which simply means page number how it is numbered in usual Word document You can have as many columns
63. n Word Reports in Microsoft Word IRT Cronista generates reports in the format of Microsoft Word documents Thermal analysis comments annotations infrared images and linked to them visual images are stored together and handled in IRT Cronista Then all these data can be sent to a report using templates or not The advantages of such an approach are the following The thermal analysis is made in the convenient and specially developed for the purpose workspace of IRT Cronista Quick report creation routine oft recurring jobs IRT Cronista takes upon itself A report is a single file in the widely spread Microsoft Word format which can be easily sent to a customer or converted into another form Pictures diagrams and data in the report are active this means that at any time if you find a mistake you can return the picture with the analysis back to IRT Cronista and correct them With the help of the Thermo Reports toolbar IRT Cronista assists you also in creating your custom report templates You can export not only pictures and diagrams but any analysis data in the text form as well IRT Cronista supports at least two working styles to write reports 1 The automatic generation of reports using templates inherit or custom then editing the result This is the fastest method of report creation it suits very well when you need to create a report having many similar pages 2 Creating a new or editing an existing docum
64. n them or fine tune the alignment in IRT Cronista Make infrared image semi transparent to see both infrared and visual images Use Vertical and Horizontal sliders to move visual image Use Zoom slider to scale visual image There is a rectangle on the visual image that shows where is the infrared image is situated relative to the visual counterpart When you use vertical horizontal slider or zoom you can see the rectangle on the visual image to change its position In that way you can adjust the view so that two images coincide At the end press OK to apply the changes The fused image will appear in the place of infrared image on the screen as well as in the report Canceling the fusion To cancel the fusion select the fused image go to fusion dialog again View Fusion drag the transparency slider to the left and press OK 48 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Measurement tools Measurement objects To create a measurement object on the image you should use the corresponding tool from the toolkit gt Al x lt lt O a 3 To pick one of the placement tools from the toolkit click on the tool in the toolkit The toolkit contains a number of tools for placing and altering measurements objects onto images Picking these placement tools from the toolkit is equivalent to choosing them from the Analysis menu Some tools have sub tools For example the area tool has a selection of different area types rectangle el
65. nd edit reports using pre defined and customized templates You will find also the information about exporting infrared images to other formats and about slide shows and other types of presentations based on thermal analyses of your images Licence agreement Important notice Read this License Agreement carefully before using this Software BY USING THIS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY AND PROMPTLY RETURN IT OR DELETE ANY COPIES OF THIS SOFTWARE IN YOUR POSSESSION By opening the sealed disk package the end user agrees to be bound to the terms of this agreement The use of this software is licensed GRAYESS Inc grants a unique nontransferable personal license to use this software on single computer systems for an unlimited time This documentation is under copyright all rights reserved This document may not in whole or in part be copied or changed without prior consent in writing from GRAYESS Inc Unauthorized use of this software can result in civil and criminal prosecution Warning The software and accompanying written materials are provided as is GRAYESS makes no other warranty either expressed or implied concerning the contents of this documentation or the performance of the software 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual System requirements Protection IRT Cronista
66. noisy and you want to get more reliable values not affected by the noise at individual pixels This is the spatial averaging to calculate a pixel value IRT Cronista takes values from pixel s neighbors and calculates their average You can choose between 3x3 and 5x5 averaging to specify the size of pixel s neighborhood to average To apply averaging right click on a measurement object to display its context menu and choose the type of averaging you want to apply to this object 3x3 or 5x5 If you want to cancel averaging choose OFF You can also set up averaging in the parameters dialog see the depiction above 57 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Note The operation of averaging can be applied only to measurement objects not to the image as a whole Temperature Offset This method simply adds some value which can be negative to the temperature value of an object Right click the object and choose Temp Offset from its context menu Then key in the value which should be added to the object value Properties editor The properties editor situated under the analyzed image is a part of the Analysis Details window It can contain two kinds or information image properties or measurement objects properties If you have measurement objects on your image and one of them is selected at the moment then object s properties will be displayed left picture for this particular object To switch to image properties ri
67. ns and comments and the Folder Contents window that displays the thumbnails or icons of the images contained in the viewed folder regarding to each other At the same time the layouts do not touch the Folders Tree window and the Temperature Scale window you can only show or hide them Standard layout The standard layout is a default windows placement It looks similar to Windows Explorer The Folder Contents window shows several rows and columns of icons or thumbnails and the preview window is situated at the left in vertical position 21 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual at rool mednbeanes are the waterproof barriers between the out de elemerts land the interior of buildings They come in variety of materisic and designs and be able to expand and contract resist high wands and the effects of solar adiation and withstand foot traffic It is easy to see why roofs leak Notations Fie Info In horizontal position the preview window is situated at the top Filmstrip layout Your pictures appear in a single row of thumbnail images You can scroll through your pictures using the left and right arrow buttons If you click a picture it is displayed as a larger image above the other pictures Notations Lock edt mode 15 Customer 4 Location Equipment L5 Problem Class Problem C Fuse cip overheated Cl Cuircut hot maybe overloaded C Component overheated may need replacement unknown fauk C Temperatu
68. ntroller gt Problem Class Pefinitely a Fault 3 Problem Unknown Fault IT Recommendation Keep under observation af Comments In all plants there are diverse collections of equipment that can be successfully inspected using infrared thermography Notations fields As you know every image can have several notations assigned for it and divided into categories To insert notations selected in some category first you should assign one or another notations set 7 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To assign notations set to the template or report 1 Click Link Notations button in the Thermo Reports toolbar 2 In Notations Briefcase dialog choose notations set you need and push Assign button 3 Notations set you have assigned appears in the Report Fields Editor Now you need to insert a certain category from assigned set To insert notations selected in some category 1 Click the place where you want to insert a notations field 2 Click the Field button in the Thermo Reports toolbar to show the Report Fields Editor 3 Choose Notation and select necessary category name 4 Push OK button The tag for notations from this category will be inserted at the position of the cursor In the picture below you see how notations look in the template left picture and in the report right picture For the convenience all information is inserted into table sells Ever best Electronics Customer CUSTOM
69. once are displayed depends on zoom factor the smaller it is the more images you see on the screen Hint If you have chosen multi image analysis for the purpose to comparing images it is convenient to set United Range and Same Palette options Analysis view adjustments Beside the infrared images the analysis view can display associated visual images as well as notations and comments To specify what to display use the View Adjustments dialog To display it push the button in the analysis toolkit or select Adjust View in View menu In the section of Single or Multiple you can specify the kind of analysis you want to perform In the section Image Details you can choose whether to display notations and linked visual images near infrared images or not In Auto Zoom section it is possible to enable auto zoom as well as define the number of columns to display the images in the analysis window In makes sense only in case of multiple image analysis 46 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Fusion of infrared and visual images In case your infrared camera has a built in visible light camera you may overlay the two images infrared and visual There are several options of how infrared image is fused with the visual image transparency blending from full infrared to full visual and opaque alarm range by high low or high and low temperatures Fusion parameters This operation is available only in the
70. onvenient mean to store different sets of notations in one place In this case when you need one or another set created before just select it from the list of existing sets To see your Notations Briefcase choose Tools Notations Briefcase The right part of the dialog shows the list of available notations sets Click on any set to preview its content assigned categories and notes within them k l Notations Briefcase E mee of BE de FN 3 Synchronize with PPC Preview Condition Monitoring Motations 9 Problem Class al air Leakage Petrochemical Mo Fault Automobile Design Roofs Inspection Maybe a Fault Building Inspections Definitely a Fault Ma asting Die Problem eed Condition Monitoring Fuse clip overheated Cuircuit hot maybe overloaded Electronic Component overheated may need P replacement eee Unknown Fault Food Processing Temperature annomality Glass Manufacturing TG Recommendation Moisture Detection Replace component Paper Keep under observation Switch off and never on again Conductive Losses JC If you do not see any notations there you can copy them from another place through the clipboard or create new sets right in the field Here is the description of buttons situated in the local toolbar creates a new notations set using Notations Editor depicted above 2 allows to edit selected notations set using Notations Editor deletes selected set of notat
71. orted properties To show a property on the label place a check mark near this property Zoom Allows you to change the size of the font used to draw the label Arrow Check box specifies whether to show the arrow between a label and an object or not The number is the thickness of the arrow Arrow color Text color Background Press button to change the arrow text background color Transparency of the background Use the slider to change label background from invisible to opaque If there is a mark in the check box the text will be outlined using the background color So to see the effect background must be transparent By Default Press this button to save current appearance settings as the default These default values will be applied to all newly created objects in the future Reset to Default This button resets the appearance of the object to the default values It does not touch custom text and properties to show Hint You can change labels of several objects at once Select the objects and display the label settings dialog for one of the selected labels your changes will be applied to all selected objects 60 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To select several objects at once hold down SHIFT key and consequently click on the objects you want to select To select all measurement objects in the image press CTRL A Deleting measurement objects Select the objects you want to delete and click delet
72. our computer It also shows any network drives that have been mapped to drive letters on your computer In IRT Cronista beside thermal analysis and reporting functionality you can copy move delete rename files link infrared images to visual There are many places in Windows where you can view and work with files and folders My Documents is a convenient place to store images or other files you want to access quickly You can also view My Network Places which lists other computers that are connected to your local area network LAN View modes Files and folders can be viewed in IRT Cronista in two modes Infrared Organizer mode and Infrared Analyzer mode The Organizer mode overtakes the functionality of Window Explorer and adds various extensions to make your work with infrared images more convenient In the Organizer mode you can easily copy move delete rename files and arrange them in folders The Organizer provides opportunity to create sets of notations and comments for single images or groups of images That is a big help for you when analyzing images and generating reports Moreover in the Organizer mode you can link infrared images to their visual light analogues See the chapter Organizer mode for details The Analyzer mode is only for the folders with infrared images it performs the thermal analysis of the images The Analyzer provides a wide range of tools which can help you to make an exhaustive examination of an infrared
73. placeholder Fields Fields are replaced with actual values image date temperature at a spot and so on They are similar to placeholders with the difference that placeholders are replaced with pictures while fields are replaced with text data To insert a field 1 Click the place where you want to insert a tag to move the cursor there 2 Click the Field button in the Thermo Reports toolbar to show the Report Fields Editor 3 Choose the field you need in the menu to insert it at the cursor position Report Fields Editor Report Fields Editor is divided into two parts In the left part there is a list with fields that are grouped for the convenience under several categories The right part of the dialog contains three sections In the upper section you always see the tag of the field chosen in fields list on the left This is how one or another field will be represented in the template The middle section contains the description of the chosen field For tags that need an ID like spots lines or areas indicate this ID in the Index edit box Spots have numerical indexes 1 2 3 Lines and areas are identified in letters A B C see the picture on the next page 13 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual TM Report Fields Editor IMG FILENAME Tag for the selected field Name of the file where image data is saved Description of the selected field Time camera Sensitivity Message
74. possible temperature units Celsius Fahrenheit and Kelvin To do this choose Settings from the Tools menu In the Settings dialog choose the temperature unit that suits you better Settings Regional Settings Interface language 34 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Notations About notations A set of frequently used notes divided into groups is called notations in IRT Cronista Consider how many different sentences do you use when writing an inspection report Most likely not that many and they repeat frequently Notations allow you to define all possible comments once and divide them into groups Every time when you need to add a note to an image instead of keying in the text again or copying It from another image you can simply choose it from a list of notations Moreover software of some infrared cameras allows you to do it right in the field The notations are indispensable when creating reports Just define the place in the report template where to insert notations belonging to the given category and the textual part of your report will be done automatically In IRT Cronista you can assign sets of notations at the folders level that is you can choose notes for an image from the notations set assigned to the folder which this image belongs to or from notations assigned to folders higher in the hierarchy In such a way sub folders inherit notations sets of their parents However the in
75. printed in the small thumbnail size together with the temperature scale approximately 18 thumbnails per an A4 page To print all infrared images in the viewed folder choose Print All from the File menu To preview all infrared images in the way they can be printed choose Print All Preview in the File menu You can print a selection of images In this case select the images you want to print right click one of the selected images and choose Print Selection in the context menu Note To select consecutive images click the first item press and hold down SHIFT and then click the last item To select nonconsecutive files or folders press and hold down CTRL and then click each item Printing in the Analyzer mode In the Analyzer mode one infrared image with all analysis details diagrams linked visual image and notations will be printed at every page similar to how it looks on the Analyzer mode screen To print all infrared images in the viewed folder choose Print All from the File menu To preview all infrared images in the way they can be printed choose Print All Preview in the File menu To print one infrared image right click on the image in the Analysis view and choose Print Image in the context menu Choose Print Image Preview to see how the image and its analysis details can be printed To print only a selection of images select the images you want to print in the thumbnails view right click on one of the se
76. r folder contains many files and you want to scan the list for a file name You can sort your files and folders in this view Folder Notations Report Templates le 95180001 le 95180003 le 95180006 le 95180007 le 95190001 Details In Details view IRT Cronista lists the contents of the open folder It is similar to List view but in addition to file and folder names Details view provides such information as size type and date modified Mame Size Type Date Modified Folder Notations SKB NXNOTATIONS File 15 12 2006 11 07 Report Templates File Folder 12 03 2007 18 08 le 95180001 168 KB Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 le 95180003 168 KB Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 E 95150006 168 K6 Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 E 95180007 168 K6 Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 le 95190001 168 KB Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 E 95190003 168 KB Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 le 95190005 168 KB Infrared Image 15 12 2006 11 07 18 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Sorting files and folders In all above mentioned view modes you can sort your files and folders in order to make it faster to find a necessary item This operation is more purposeful in List and Details views Sorting procedure is similar to that in Windows Explorer The Arrange Icons By submenu of the folder view context menu right clicking on a blank area allows you to sort files alphabetically by Name or by other file property Size Type Date
77. re annomalty L5 Recommendation C Replace component V Keep under observation switch off and never on again Comments a In all plants there are diverse collections of equipment that can be successfully inspected using infrared thermography 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Dual layout This layout displays the contents of one folder in two windows the left window shows only the infrared images the right all the other files This helps to separate the infrared images Te Infrared Samples infrared images y pej 95180003 Arranging windows Though different layouts provide several ways to arrange the windows on the screen of your computer you may need to amend them to your discretion You can control the preview window size like other windows sizes and their arrangement on the screen simply using the mouse When the cursor is over the border of a window it changes its usual appearance and takes the form of two sided arrow 4 Then just hold down left mouse button and drag it up down or right left The window will widen or decrease depending on the direction of dragging For example you may need to make the preview window bigger in order to see images in more detail Drag the right edge of the preview window toward the right and the bottom edge further down 23 from the visual ones so it is easier to link them with drag and drop Location Munich Equipment Pump starter Fus
78. reate a new template Under the toolbar there is a preview section There you can see how the report will look Click on a template name to select it and see its preview Yellow blue and red rectangles are placeholders that determine the place in the page where one or another element will be located in the report The right hand field of the dialog contains the index of templates It has three tabs at the bottom There you can choose which templates to show All Templates Only Local or Only Shared Shared templates are available for all folder on the computer Local templates are available only for the active folder and its subfolders All templates display the list of both local and shared templates custom and inherited The templates list is the usual list of files and all operations can be done in the same way as they done for usual files renaming deleting copying through the Clipboard copying and moving by drag and drop and others To create a copy of a template press the CTRL button and holding it drag the template you want a copy of to a blank area in the list of templates To edit a template in Word double click on it For above mentioned operations you can use also template s context menu At the and press Run button to start the process of report generation Reports for image folder or selection The Tools menu contains such options as Create Report for Image and Create Report for Folder In the first case a report
79. resecrresserresesrree 8 Raw and GTSI image TOMO IS store eecisete saturn cndesnansceiiuebamesteradenout 82 KEY DOGG SMOG UTS SST 84 4 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Installation and the first experience Introductory notes and installation Introduction About this program GRAYESS IRT Cronista is extremely powerful but easy to use software that enables you to produce thermal analysis and highly customizable professional reports with infrared images IRT Cronista makes the production of informative and good looking reports quick and easy allowing you to save time and efforts when working at any type of task concerning interpretation of infrared images Stored infrared and visual images can be linked to each other and combined with associated annotations The images are viewed in a thumbnail gallery with adjustable zoom temperature span and color palette IRT Cronista provides an extensive range of measurement tools as spot line polyline area hot cold spots finder profile histogram etc It is possible to take measurements simultaneously on several images The reports are created with just one mouse click on an image The software includes several pre defined report templates which can be used to create reports in a straightforward way or as the basis for your own customized templates Better still it is easy to edit the resulting report or templates in Word including whatever information you require About this man
80. rough all infrared images in the folder and export them into the report showing the progress in Report Generator dialog 4 Now your report is ready It is opened in Microsoft Word you can change whatever you need and save the document specifying the location where to save it In the picture on the left you see the result the first image of a generated report for a folder using sample template It may contain the both infrared and visual image measurement marks placed while doing thermographic analysis notes and other information concerning measurement objects profiles and histograms and image in the whole The example of how the report may look see on the page 13 Template Selection dialog The template selection dialog opens when you choose Create Report for Image or Create Report for Folder in the Tools menu E Template Selection Xx E Shared templates Templates shared by all folders on this computer Preview Condition Monitoring Sample Sample Minsk Sample Minsk_old Sample Orlando All Templates Only Local gt Only Shared Run Cancel 63 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The Template Selection dialog has its own toolbar In this toolbar you can choose in which view mode to show the templates in the right hand field of the dialog You can choose between thumbnails icons list and details view You can also delete a template selected in the right hand field or choose command to c
81. rrent folder will have its own set of notations Comments The notations editor has Comments field in the bottom part of the window Here you can create a comment that will be applied to every image in the folder then while selecting notation for images you can apply individual comment to each image if it is necessary You can use this field in cases when the note you want to add does not fit into the notations structure whether it is too long or contains information unique for this folder You can also use this field if you are used to manage without the structured notations and there is no need of them for you At the end press OK to save the newly created or edited set of notations Shared notations If you create a set of notations for a folder this set of notations becomes available to every image in this folder and its sub folders if the inheritance is turned on In this manner you can define a set of notations available to all images on your computer the Shared Notations If you need only one set of notations or you want to use some notations with all images use Shared Notations 3 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual To create the set of Shared Notations choose Shared Notations from the Tools menu The structure of shared notations is the same as in Notations for folder See the previous topic Creating sets of notations for instructions how to edit them Notations Briefcase Notations Briefcase is a c
82. s la Back means return to a folder that was opened before Forward assists you to reach a folder that was opened later if you had already used Back button one or several times and Up means go to the upper level folder In the toolbar you see also the button that undoes your last action and some other buttons which functionality will be depicted below To begin working with an image open the folder where it is located and select the necessary image click on it with the left mouse button in the folder contents window At once you will see the preview of the image and annotations for it below If you do not have any infrared images on your computer at the moment you can learn the program using Infrared Samples if you have chosen to install samples during the setup You can find Infrared Samples in My Documents folder 16 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual View modes IRT Cronista provides several ways for you to arrange and identify your files when viewing them in folders You can see the files in different ways as thumbnails as icons of different sizes as a list etc sort them by one or another criterion preview images in a bigger window and place the components of the program on the screen in such a way that is convenient personally for you When a folder is opened and its contents are represented in the Folder Contents window you can access each of the following view options thumbnails icon
83. s tiles list and details They are available in the View menu or under view modes button Thumbnails This view type shows thumbnail preview of infrared images and other images and files You can control the appearance of infrared images by selecting a different color palette and changing the temperature scale For folders Thumbnails view displays the images a folder contains on a folder icon so you can quickly identify the contents of the folder The complete folder name is displayed under the thumbnail Infrared images in Thumbnails view 95190001 95190003 95190005 If a folder contains linked infrared and visual images Thumbnails view shows both linked images one below the other 95180003 95180006 95180007 If a folder does not contain any images its contents are shown in Thumbnail view as large ICONS 17 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Icons Icons view displays your files and folders as icons e ob Bw wb Folder Report 95180001 95180003 95180006 95180007 Notations Templates v H b a5 190001 95190003 95190005 a5 190009 a5 190010 a5 190012 Tiles Tiles view displays your files and folders but the icons are larger than those in Icons view A Folder Notations Report Templates b 95150001 95180003 M 95180006 95180007 95190001 95190005 List List view displays the contents of a folder as a list of file or folder names preceded by small icons This view is useful if you
84. section Update E section Break jg Delete Section F Add Page Pep Previous Next Edit button opens the active placeholder for editing in IRT Cronista Update button updates the active section with the actual information from the currently selected in IRT Cronista image Section Break adds empty section Use this command to separate the part of template which is copied for every infrared image from report header and footer Section break is inserted at the cursor position Delete Current Section use this item to delete an infrared image with its analysis from a report Add Page Section this item helps when you need to add an infrared image with analysis to an existing report It will make a copy of the template s main section and insert it at the cursor position or after the current section if the cursor is situated inside a section After that you can click Edit to get a new image with data from IRT Cronista Previous Section goes to the previous section or infrared image Next Section goes to the next section next infrared image 70 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Placeholders Placeholders are ActiveX objects filled during report generation with actual pictures provided by IRT Cronista At the picture on the right you see the infrared image placeholder Other types of placeholders visual image placeholder profile placeholder histogram placeholder image info placeholder e
85. splay the maximum minimum and average temperature along the line or polyline in the image to display the temperature profile along a line or polyline in the image To draw a line or polyline on the image 1 Pick a line sub tool from the toolkit by clicking on the small rectangle near the line tool button and choosing the type of the line that you need free line horizontal line vertical line or polyline The pointer will change to when it is over the active image to show that you have picked the line placement tool 2 Position the pointer where you want the line to begin and press the left mouse button to place the first of line s end points Then holding the button drag the pointer to the position where you want to place the next or the last point and release the button In case of polyline consequently click on places where you want to create new vertices 3 To complete polyline creation and be able to place other objects click on any tool in the toolkit When you create a line measurement object IRT Cronista automatically draws the line profile in the profile window at the screen bottom A profile is a curve showing temperatures at every point along a line A line profile visualizes primary analysis information about a line Profile 63 3 Line 1 Max 61 9 C Min 33 8 C Avr 54 1 C J SANE CS 00 Fixels Hint 53 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The profile section is a part of t
86. t fields using Fields group in the Thermo Reports toolbar 4 To separate parts that will be copied for every inserted infrared image from those that will be not IRT Cronista uses sections any Word document can be divided into sections You can insert sections pushing Add Page button in the Section group of the Thermo Reports toolbar 5 The section that contains an infrared placeholder will be copied for every infrared image received from IRT Cronista This section is called main section There can be only one main section in a template Other sections even if they have placeholders will remain unchanged in the resulting report and can be used as report headers or footers 6 Placeholders lying in the same section take their data from the same infrared image 7 Atemplate can have any additional information this information will be copied without changes into the resulting report afterwards Custom report templates Report templates in GRAYESS IRT Cronista are nothing else but the usual Microsoft Word document templates Because of that you can use the standard means of Word to create report templates though we recommend you to use IRT Cronista as it is easier and new templates will be automatically saved in the proper places IRT Cronista has two types of report templates shared and local Shared templates are available for reports created for infrared images located at any place on your computer or in the network You can view th
87. tc look similar but have different colors To add a placeholder to a template or a document 1 Place the cursor to the point where you need to insert a placeholder 2 Click the corresponding placeholder icon in the Thermo Reports toolbar 3 Position and resize the placeholder as you need placeholders behave similar to Word drawing objects Every object in Microsoft Word has a property defining how it interacts with the text it can be inline or floating A floating object can be moved freely on the page while an inline object is attached to some cursor position The disadvantage of floating objects is that as they are moved freely their behavior is not that easy to predict during report generation they may jump somewhere Therefore we recommend using the inline objects newly created placeholders are inline In order to define the position of an inline object you have to use tables and insert placeholders into their cells Here is placeholders list Infrared image placeholder marks the place for infrared image that will be copied to the report with all analysis objects on it and temperature scale Infrared al Visual image placeholder marks the place for visual light image Visual oe Profile placeholder creates a diagram for lines or polylines drawn on the image in IRT Cronista Profile 71 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual sl Histogram placeholder marks a place for histogram for are
88. te the hottest and coldest spots in an infrared image To do this choose Find Hot Cold Spots from the spot tool submenu or from image context menu The hot cold spots finder dialog opens see the picture on the right Now set the parameters of search Select the kind of spots to find hot or cold spots Specify the number of spots to find in the Spots number field from 1 to 5 Specify the minimum allowed distance between the spots in the Minimum distance field from 0 to 1000 pixels If you need to locate spots falling into some temperature range check Enable temperature range box and specify the temperature span To locate spots on all images in the folder check Process all images box To find the spots and show them on the images press Find Then press Close to close the dialog Hint To delete hot or cold spots from the image images specify zero as spots number to find In the picture below you see the example There are three spots A B and c The hot spots are marked with a capital letter followed by the exclamation sign The cold spots are marked with a lowercase letter followed by the exclamation sign 52 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Note It is not possible to move hot cold spot objects Line tool and profiles The line tool can be used to draw a line or polyline a series of lines joined end to end on the image You can use lines in several ways to di
89. temperature averaging and temperature offset described above such properties as position data for spots nodes the position of lines and areas end points value Spot temperature maximum minimum and average temperature along a line or within an area The list of properties depends on object type If you change position data of a spot the spot will change its location on the image The same concerns lines and areas end points nodes The temperature values can be changed only with the help of Temperature Offset parameter Selection tool The selection tool has a number of different uses Left clicking with the selection tool on a measurement object activates the object Left clicking on an empty place in the image unselects all objects In this case the whole image is considered to be active Drawing the selection rectangle with the selection tool selects all objects that fall into this rectangle Double clicking with the selection tool a measurement object or the image displays the temperature parameters dialog for the object or the image Double clicking an object label displays the dialog to change label appearance and contents Right clicking with the selection tool an object or the image displays the context menu for the object or the image The selection tool is also used to reposition and reshape measurement objects and to move object labels To select several objects hold down SHIFT key
90. tion with the actual information from the currently selected in IRT Cronista image rA i ea Spots R i Image Info Infrared Visual Profile Histogram F All Placeholders Placeholders p Placeholders are special objects that mark places in the document where one or another type of data should be inserted Placeholders group of the toolbar contains buttons to insert infrared and visual images profiles and histograms spots data and image information to the report or template 69 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual JERN Field Summary Table Edit Link Notations a Delete Update Fields Fields are very similar to placeholders only they are replaced not with pictures but with text information Push Field button and choose any data you want to add to your report form the given list image information measurement objects parameters camera information any notations and many others Use Summary Table to automatically create tables collecting information on one or more parameters through all images in the report Sections As was described before IRT Cronista uses sections to separate template data that will be copied from the information that will be not copied Sections can be added using the Thermo Reports toolbar in Word A section is a part of report that contains one infrared image or infrared image placeholder Where appears another one infrared image there begins another
91. tions to describe one image At the same time for category Problem we should allow selecting several notations at once To 1 2 3 E create a new set of notations Switch to the Organizer mode Open the necessary folder Choose New Notations for Folder in the File menu or choose the same command in image context menu Then the Notations Editor opens Click on the blank space in the notations section to begin editing Enter category name Location and press ENTER Press CTRL ENTER to insert the first notation into the new category Key in Minskand press ENTER Press ENTER again to add the second notation key in Munich and press ENTER Repeat point 8 to add the last notation in this category New York Press SHIFT ENTER to add the second category and repeat points 4 7 to add categories Equipment Problem and Problem Class Remember that SHIFT ENTER always creates a new category you can even create a category within another category CTRL ENTER creates a new notation in the selected category ENTER means the addition of a neighbor if a category IS selected at the moment then another category will be created if a notation is selected then another notation will be created below By default the categories allow multiple selection To change the allowed selection use special buttons in the toolbar The first round button means that only one notation can be chosen for this category th
92. ture indicated Connection tool The connection tool A displays the difference in temperature readings between any two measurement spots Before using this tool you should already have two or more spots on your image To display temperature difference 1 Select the connection tool from the toolkit A The pointer will change when it is over the image to show that the connection tool is selected a 2 Move the pointer over a measurement spot click on it with the left mouse button and holding it drag the pointer towards the measurement spot that will be subtracted from the first spot A line is dragged out from the first spot to the pointer showing that you are making a link between two spots 3 When the pointer is on the second spot release the mouse button to display the temperature difference between the tools In the picture below you see the measurement object A B that displays temperature difference between spots A and B Select Spots This command contained in the spot tool submenu selects all spots in the active image at once regular temperature spots hot cold spots and temperature difference spots After you have selected them you can delete or move them altogether Delete Spots This command is also contained in the spot tool submenu It erases all types of spots in the active image at once 51 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Hot and cold spots finder tool IRT Cronistacan automatically loca
93. ual This manual provides complete instructions for using IRT Cronista This manual will lead you step by step to make exhaustive thermographic analysis of your infrared images and then produce superb reports based on tt The manual is divided into the following main parts 1 Installation and the first experience 2 Organizer mode 3 Thermographic analysis Analyzer mode 4 Generating reports 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual The first part which you are just reading at the moment includes general information about the software as well as instructions concerning installation and licensing The first part of the manual contains also a cursory examination of the program its structure and the functionality of its elements The first part will guide you to create your first test report but the operations needed for this are depicted in details in the following parts of the manual The second part Organizer mode is devoted to such topics as how to arrange the files in folders how to adjust the appearance of the application in the best way how to link visual and infrared images how to create sets of notations how to use temperature scales and palettes etc In the third part of the manual Thermographic analysis you will learn how to do any type of thermal analysis from elementary to sophisticated using measurement tools provided by IRT Cronista In the last part Generating reports you will learn how to create a
94. ulldrgs and Controls 17 Location FA Munich hana LO Equipment Range Cabinet 1 C Preset Commnerts O auto Thermal Imaging is widely used for the conditien Custom ondtoring of machinery and electrical equomert to predit united Range Notations File info vt Same Palette 10 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Analyzing images When you start IRT Cronista for the first time you get a window similar to the one shown on the previous page At the left hand part of the window you see the tree of all disks and folders on your computer Click the small plus sign near My Documents to see its contents If you have chosen to install samples provided with IRT Cronista you should find the folder named Infrared Samples Click on this folder to show its contents in the right part of the window Click on any image to see its details in the preview window in the middle To be able to analyze infrared images you should activate the Analyzer Wa mode To do this click on Analyzer button in the toolbar auka Then select some tool in the toolkit and click on the image to create a measurement object which corresponds to the tool you have selected Folders Infrared Samples Bnwa RE om oO AX 9 desttop SS O My Doounerks 3 OG b rsred Samples OJ Report Templates Lines My Mosc My Pxtures OI My Received F es E Snagit Catalog OJ Vpdater amp Mg My Computer PSS eration Cuse
95. ure Placehoiders Fields and Tables In the picture above you see the Thermo Reports toolbar in Word 2007 In earlier versions it may look otherwise but the functionality of buttons remains the same 68 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual If you cannot find the Thermography Report toolbar in your Word there can be two reasons for that 1 The toolbar was hidden To show it back right click anywhere on the toolbars area and choose Thermography Reports from the list In the same way you can hide the Thermography Report toolbar if you do not need it 2 IRT Cronista is not installed or installed not properly To solve the problem try to reinstall IRT Cronista Thermo Reports toolbar description As you see the Thermo Reports toolbar is divided into three groups 1 Section 2 Placeholders 3 Fields pr Section Break g Previous j Delete Section Q Next Edit Update Add Page Report Section Section group can be used to separate template data that will be copied from the information that will be not copied The corresponding part of the toolbar allows to insert a new main section and a new infrared image to the report delete sections containing unnecessary infrared images navigate between sections etc Section part of the toolbar contains also such important buttons as Edit and Update Edit button opens the active placeholder for editing in IRT Cronista Update button updates the active sec
96. very measurement object To change temperature parameters for an object or image 1 Right click on the object or the image to display the context menu of the object 2 Choose Parameters The parameters dialog will be displayed 3 Select the parameter you want to change and key in a new value 56 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Parameters Spot B Ambient temp 32 0 Emissivity 1 00 Averaging OFF Temp Offset 0 0 C Emissivity The Fraction of the ideal blackbody spectrum energy real body actually emits Permissible range 0 01 1 You can also display the parameters dialog by double clicking on an object or image In this dialog you can see and change besides emissivity and ambient temperature such parameters as averaging and temperature offset see description below Note If a measurement object does not have its own parameters it takes them from the image That is why changing a temperature parameter of the image will change the corresponding parameter of the objects but not for the objects which parameters were individually changed before their properties will remain unchanged Objects with individual temperature parameters are marked by single quote sign For example Line 1 A The most important temperature parameters of the whole image are always shown under the analyzed image Sample Thermo 15 05 2001 Ta 32 0 C E 1 00 Averaging Averaging can be used when an image is
97. visual light image If there is no visual image that means it was not linked to this infrared image see the chapter Linking visual images to infrared for details If there is no comments and notations see the chapter Notations to know how to create them You may need to hide analysis and measurement details in order to enlarge the analysis space To hide or show these elements use View menu or context menu of the analysis window Folder Contents window On the right of the folders tree window there is the folder contents window This is a filmstrip of images in the active folder opened in the folders tree To show or hide this window place or remove a check mark against Image Thumbnails in View Windows menu 43 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Temperature scale and palettes The temperature scale window situated in right hand part of the screen shows the temperature range selected for displaying it against the color palette It gives the correspondence between temperatures and the palette colors used to represent them The functionality of the temperature scale window in the Analyzer mode is the same as in the Organizer mode So see Temperature scale and palettes topic above To show or hide this window choose View Windows Temperature Scale Folders tree The folders tree window is situated in the left hand part of the screen It shows the content of catalogues and folders on your computer and network
98. want to edit This action will return you to IRT Cronista To add one more infrared image to the report Choose a place where you want to insert a new image by placing there the cursor 2 Press Add Page button in the Section group of the Thermo Reports toolbar to insert a new section an empty copy of the template A new section will be added after the current one 3 Click once the rectangle marked with caption nfrared Image and push the Edit button in the Thermo Reports toolbar IRT Cronista will be launched 4 In IRT Cronista open the needed image in the Analyzer mode make the analysis and click Apply to Report buiton in the toolbar 65 2007 GRAYESS Inc IRT Cronista Manual Creating and editing templates Report template structure These are the basic rules of report templates organization 1 To mark places for images and diagrams special objects placeholders are used There are different types of placeholders infrared image placeholder visual image placeholder profile placeholder histogram placeholder image info placeholder and notations placeholder You insert placeholders using Placeholders group in the Thermo Reports toolbar 2 Every template must have at least one infrared image placeholder 3 You can use special fields in a template as placeholders for the text information When a report is generated fields are replaced with the actual information about an image or measurement object You inser

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