PIVMat Installation

PIVMat Installation



Compatibility

The PIVMat Toolbox works with MATLAB 7 or higher, every plateform (PC, UNIX, Mac). However, the import of DaVis files works only on Windows (32-bits version only), and requires to install first the MATLABIMX package (version 1.4 or higher) provided by LaVision.

The PIVMat Toolbox reads all the files from DaVis 6 and 7 (VEC, VC7, IMG, IMX, IM7, SET and EXP) and files from MatPIV (MAT).

Note: the MATLABIMX package works only on the 32-bits version of Matlab (default version). If you have a 64-bits Windows XP edition, you will need to install the 32-bits version of Matlab to run the PIVMat toolbox.


Installation procedure

1. Download the PIVMat Toolbox and extract the ZIP file in a folder, for example /My documents/Matlab/toolbox/pivmat (make sure the subdirectories html, sample and private are correctly unzipped as well). If you upgrade from an older version, first empty the previous directory.

2. If you wish to import DaVis files (Windows only), download also the latest version of MATLABIMX ('ReadIMX Loader package for MATLAB') from the 'Download' area of the LaVision web site www.lavision.de and extract the ZIP file in another folder, for example /My documents/Matlab/toolbox/readimx. Note that you need to sign up first and login to access to the LaVision download area.

3. From the menu 'File > Set Path', click on 'Add Folder' (not Add with Subfolders) and select the directories pivmat and readimx. Click on 'Save' and 'Close'.

4. Restart MATLAB. To get started, type docpivmat, or select Toolboxes > PIVMat from the Start button.

Matlab upgrade

If you upgrade Matlab, you don't need to reinstall pivmat and readimx. Just follow steps 3 and 4.

PIVMat upgrade

Quit Matlab, replace your old pivmat folder with the new one, and re-launch Matlab.



 

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