FieldView Tutorial

By: Amedeo Alberio

Update from 2024: The parent company of FieldView, Intelligent Light, sold FieldView to Vela Software International, and it is not clear whether the software is still active.

Installation

1. In order to be able to download/install the full version of FieldView 17 (or the previous versions) is it to either buy the paid version or request a 30 days free trial. The free trial can be request here and it takes a few days to obtain. It is also possible to instantly receive a demo version of FieldView that allows to test some of the functionality of the full product on a set of data that they provide (this is demo version is really of limiting, so for our evaluation we register for the 30 day trial). The demo trial can be obtained here. 

2. After receiving access to the 30 day trial, in order to download and install the software you need to login in the following portal (with the credential you created when applying to the trial). Once logged in you will be able to install the installers/binaries for the following 4 platforms:

   1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Linux 64-bit (Opteron/EM64T) 

               2. Linux 32-bit 

               3. Windows 64-bit

               4. macOS 

To install on Windows:

• 1.  Download the installer.

  2. Execute the installer and follow the guided installation process. 

Set up the licensing Server on Windows:

• 1. Request your license information at password@ilight.com

  2.  FROM THE START MENU, SELECT:                                        

     1. Start -> Programs -> FIELDVIEW for Windows 17 -> FlexLM License File. The template license.dat file will open in Notepad.

     2. Edit license.dat with the licensing information that you received in the email

  3. FROM THE START MENU, SELECT: 

  4. Start -> Programs -> FIELDVIEW for Windows 17 -> LMTOOLS.                                      

     1. Choose Configuration Using Services, then press the Configure Services tab.                                    

     2. Type FIELDVIEW License Manager in the Service Name field.                                    

     3.   For lmgrd.exe, press Browse to select this file in the bin directory of the FIELDVIEW installation (by default this is C:/Program Files/Intelligent Light/FVWIN17). Once selected, press the Open button in the browser.                                   

     4. Back on the LMTOOLS interface, press Browse for the License File, then change Files of type to License Files (*.dat) and choose the file license.dat in the data directory of your FIELDVIEW installation.  

     5. Set Path to the debug log file to "flexlm.log" anywhere in the path %System-Drive%\ProgramData (typically C:\ProgramData).  Security prevents this file from being written to arbitrary locations.                                    

     6. Next check the Use Services button.                                    

     7.  Then press Save Service and save the changes.  

  5. PRESS THE START/STOP/REREAD TAB. 

     1. Press the Start Server button to start the license manager.                                    

     2. The message Server Started should appear in the status line.

  6. ON THE FILE MENU, CHOOSE EXIT TO CLOSE LMTOOLS.  

  7. Now you should be able to run FIELDVIEW  

Data Visualization - Tutorial

 Our data visualization hello world tutotial couldn't be tested on FieldView as it does not currently support the "vtkStructuredPoints" data type.