Zeiss Lightsheet Z.1 Operating Manual

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CHAPTER 4 - SYSTEM OPERATIONLightsheet Z.1 Center Screen Area / Image Containers - Display and Image Analysis Carl Zeiss02/2013 000000-1790-528 211All these functions can be used for creating a render series in order to show them and to make moviesfor presentations.There are three clipping planes which are labeled for ease of use with colored outlines. These outlines doNOT represent the channels. The standard orientations of the planes are blue: XY plane, green: YZplane, and red: XZ plane. This is linked to the default orientation of the volume axis.Activating the Clipping panel displays the clipping planes and displays those with default settings if theimage was not opened in the 3D module before. is setting back the appearance of theplanes to the following settings:− Each plane is placed into the center of the volume and oriented in an orthogonal fashion.− The planes have an opaque surface and colored outlines.− The clipping functionality of the planes is not activated in this state.Controlling the clipping functionality of the 3planesThe clipping planes are operated by three buttonson the 3D tab which are color coded in the sameway the respective planes are color coded. Thebuttons are located below the Render ModeButtons and can be activated by ticking theclipping tick box.Note that full functionality of the clippingplanes can be found in the Clipping ViewControl tab!By toggling thesebuttons, the clipping behavior of the planes can be set in the following manner:− None: hides the plane completely− Front: clips away the data on the front side of the plane− Back: clips away the data on the back side of the plane− Both: clips away the data on both sides of the plane− Show Plane only displays the plane – no clippingFig. 316 Toggle buttons