Software Manual Freedom EVOware Standard 2.3 Freedom ...

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11 Getting Started - Setting Up a New Script or Process
11.1 First Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
11.2 Setting Up a New Pipetting Instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-1
11.3 Pre-requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
11.3.1 Setting Up Carriers on the Worktable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-2
11.4 Setting Up a Pipetting Script in Freedom EVOware Standard . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
11.4.1 Choosing Labware for a Pipetting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-4
11.4.2 Creating a Pipetting Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-5
11.4.3 Adding Robot Movement Commands to the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
11.4.4 Saving the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-6
11.4.5 Running the Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
11.4.6 Example Scripts and Example Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
11.5 Setting Up a Process in Freedom EVOware Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
11.5.1 Choosing Labware for a Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-7
11.5.2 Adding Device Commands to the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
11.5.3 Adding Robot Movement Commands to the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-10
11.5.4 Choosing Labware for a Pipette Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-11
11.5.5 Creating a Script for the Pipette Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
11.5.6 Closing the Script Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-12
11.5.7 Adding Final Position Icons to your Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13
11.5.8 Linking the Process Steps in the Order of Execution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-13
11.5.9 Adding On-the-fly Actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15
11.5.10 Saving the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15
11.5.11 Running the Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-15
11.6 Labware Generator (Freedom EVOware Plus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16
11.6.1 Creating a labware repository in a feeder device. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-16
11.6.2 Creating a labware repository on the worktable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-17
11.6.3 Context Menu of the Labware Generator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
11.7 Additional Information on Labware and Carriers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
11.7.1 Assigning a Label (Name) to the Labware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-19
11.7.2 Example of a Worktable With Several Carriers and Labware Items . . 11-20
11.7.3 System Liquid Icon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11-20
12 Running Scripts and Processes
12.1 Running a Liquid Handling Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-1
12.1.1 Buttons in Standard View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-2
12.1.2 Runtime Controller, Extended View (Running a Script) . . . . . . . . . . . 12-4
12.1.3 Buttons in Extended View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-5
12.2 Running and Optimizing a Process (Freedom EVOware Plus) . . . . . . . . . 12-5
12.2.1 Process Controller during process runtime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-9
12.2.2 Additional Runtime Settings for Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-10
12.2.3 Buttons in Standard View. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-12
12.2.4 Runtime Controller, Extended View (Running a Process) . . . . . . . . . 12-14
12.2.5 Buttons in Extended View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12-16
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