AutoMove

Purpose

AutoMove is an automatic centering procedure. It acts in conjunction with the AutoMove Area, represented as a dashed rectangular area, to help enable you to trace structures larger than a single field of view. The tracing and the stage move together so that there is no loss in registration (there may be a momentary delay as the stage moves to its new location).

Using Automove

Click the Automove button from the Move or Workspace ribbon to enable Automove.

Click the Define AutoMove button from the Workspace ribbon, then drag your mouse to draw a rectangle from top left to bottom right to define the AutoMove area. Learn more about defining the automove area.

Open the Macro View window to get a better view of the AutoMove area.

About the center point

You can define the center point as either the center of the tracing window or the center of the AutoMove window.

The center of the tracing window is the default. To center the point at the center of the AutoMove window:

1. Go to File>Preferences>Movement>AutoMove and Field Movement section.
2. Check the Center Cursor in AutoMove Area box.