Installation and Update
Software Installation
AMICS Terrarium Installation
6 min
installation of amics terrarium execute the terrarium installation package provided to you by your hitachi/bruker amics representative the file should be entitled terrarium 0 4 0 setup 64 exe the installer will check for the system who will have access to the software, in most cases select the default option “install for me only (recommended)” a license agreement pop up window will then appear please read the license agreement, and if it is acceptable, select “i accept the agreement” and select the “next” button on the following pop up menu, an option will be given to select where to install the terrarium package, and a suggested default location will be recommended however, to improve service and support, change the default location to c \programdata\amics\amics scripts\terrarium\0 4 then click the “next” button in the following pop up window, ensure both the check boxes are selected and checked, and then click the “next” button on the next screen, an option is provided to create the configuration folder, and a default folder is suggested however, to improve service and support, change the location to c \programdata\amics\amics scripts\terrarium once the location has been changed, then click the “next” button the installer will then provide a default name for the installed folder “terrarium 0 4” this can be left as is and click “next” on the next screen, the installer will ask for confirmation to start the installation check the setup information and if all is ok, click the “install” button the installer will then start the installation, including opening a command line window wait for the installer to finish and then press any key when promoted to in the command line window then close the wizard by clicking the “close” button preloaded mist and tile normalizer amics comes with two standard scripts the first is based on the nist mist microscope image stitching converted from javascript, and the second is an application to assist in removing analysis artefacts from the primary (i e , bse) image to quickly set this up, if terrirum has been installed as per the previous process, users need only copy the attached “ externalscriptlibrary json ” file to the c \programdata\amics\systemdata if a file already exists in this folder, make a copy of the existing file before replacing it with the included json file adding icons into amics to activate the icon in the menu ribbon for these two included scripts, users need only paste the two png files (correct scan png, mist stitch png) into the following location, assuming terrarium has been installed as above c \programdata\amics\amics scripts\terrarium\config note if this folder does not exist, then create the “config” folder and copy the image over into the newly created folder