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3 AvaSoft-Basic manual
The AvaSoft-Basic software is delivered with every Avantes spectrometer. The AvaSoft full version
software contains many additional features and applications. The full version comes with a separate
manual. Please refer to the software section in the Avantes Fiber optic Spectroscopy Catalogue for
an overview of the extra functionality in AvaSoft-Full. A detailed description about all features in
the full version can be found in the help files, or in PDF format on the AvaSpec product CD-ROM that
came with your spectrometer system.
AvaSoft-Basic 7 is available for both -USB1 and –USB2 platforms, you will find the relevant
instructions for the –USB2 platform spectrometers marked with USB2.
AvaSoft-Basic features user friendly, mouse oriented pull down menus. The mouse controls
movements of a data cursor for instantaneous readout of wavelength, pixel and y-axis magnitude.
Mouse dragging is a fast and elegant way to zoom in both x and y direction at the same time. Buttons
in the main window are available for on-line/off-line spectral analyses (start/stop), for easy saving
of reference, dark and experiment spectra, printing, changing the view to absorbance,
transmittance, irradiance or raw scope data, rescaling the y-axis and set scale for x- and y-axis.
Spectra that were saved before can be displayed graphically and compared to other saved spectra, or
to the online measured spectra. The user sets the data collection parameters, such as CCD detector
integration time, auto-dark correction, signal averaging and spectral smoothing in common dialog
boxes.