To install the Rayfract® trial : For installation under Windows 7/8/10/11 login as a user with "Administrator" rights. We support both Microsoft Windows 32-bit and 64-bit. Installation under 64-bit Windows has been tested for Rayfract® version 4.01 and later versions, on Windows 7 and 10/11. Under Windows 10 64-bit first disable Real-time protection on both the download PC and target PC in Windows Defender, Virus and threat protection settings. To open Windows Defender & disable protection under Windows 10 : - left-click the Start button at bottom-left of your screen - left-click the gear icon to open the Settings menu/panel - left-click Update & Security - left-click Windows Defender - left-click Virus and threat protection settings - disable Real-time protection by moving the switch to left with your mouse . Download the installable archive file RAYTRIAL.EXE from our web site https://rayfract.com, link "Trial" or directly from the associated URL address https://rayfract.com/trial/RAYTRIAL.EXE. Start up your web browser such as Microsoft Edge or Mozilla Firefox. Then specify one of these web addresses in the URL address field on top of the browser window and press ENTER/RETURN key. Once you have downloaded RAYTRIAL.EXE copy it into a temporary directory on the target hardware e.g. C:\TEMP. Now run RAYTRIAL.EXE . When the installation program displays the "Select Destination Directory" dialog, change the drive or partition part of the directory only and leave the rest as \RAY32 root level directory as per default (e.g. D:\RAY32). Under Windows 10 64-bit - add Exclusion in Windows Defender for file C:\RAY32\BIN\RAYFRACT32.EXE - add Exclusion in Windows Defender for folder C:\RAY32 - reenable Real-time protection in Windows Defender - now test starting our free trial via Windows desktop link - if necessary repeat above installation, e.g. after restarting Windows 10 To verify the positive outcome of above installation test starting up the Rayfract® trial : To start up Rayfract® under Windows 7/8/10/11 double-click the desktop link with our icon. Your Rayfract® trial license will expire after 50 runs, or 30 days after having been run for the first time. It will run without the need for any registration. When you start up the trial, a licensing dialog may display. Just hit RETURN or click on the "Continue" button to continue. Once the license has expired on a given hardware, the free trial will not run any longer run on that hardware, even if you reinstall it as described above. You have the option to rent or purchase a Standard functionality license : 4 month rental or unlimited license. For details see our web site https://rayfract.com/pricing.htm You are welcome to pass on the trial installation file RAYTRIAL.EXE and this file TRIAL.TXT to any interested third party by any means, as long as you do not charge them for the free trial. Here some more information concerning usage and functionality restrictions of your free trial Rayfract® software : Open Help menu &click on Contents for help topics. For a .pdf version of our Windows help file see https://rayfract.com/help/rayfract.pdf . This may be easier for viewing. But the Windows help file is more up-to-date and is easier to navigate with links to popup topics for all parameters. Now you are ready to work with your license. You may first want to open the existing sample profiles LINE14 and PALMFIG4. Select the SEIS32.DBD in these subdirectories, to open the profile database. See "Starting up Rayfract® and profile management" and later chapters in the help menu for details. You may display help chapters by selecting menu items in the rightmost Help menu. Be sure to read chapter "System limitations" as well. There you will find a complete list of restrictions related to your trial license. Once you have opened profile LINE14, select Smooth invert|WET with 1D gradient initial model, to run our Smooth inversion. We recommend to get acquainted with the processing capabilities of our Rayfract® software by working through our SAPRI12.pdf tutorial available at https://rayfract.com/tutorials/sapri12.pdf. Also review the introductory "Tutorial" chapter of our manual at https://rayfract.com/help/manual.pdf . Or work through tutorials at https://rayfract.com/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ZIP, e.g. EJEMPL3, BULGATRL or THRUST12 tutorials. The original data sets are available for download. Just click on the corresponding link in the tutorial. For in-depth advice on how to adapt DeltatV and WET inversion parameters to your situation see our help chapters "WET tomography Processing" and "Pseudo-2D DeltatV inversion". Also see our SAGEEP10 short course notes at https://rayfract.com/SAGEEP10.pdf . Please be aware that your trial license will handle up to 30 shots per profile only ! Renumber shots during import if required. Just edit the "Shot Number" field value in the "Import Shot" dialog. See help menu / chapter "System limitations" for more capable Rayfract® versions. Also, this free trial license assumes flat topography, and resets all topography to elevation zero, during import of shot files. To obtain more information on an edit field in a dialog, please click on that field with your left mouse key and then press function key F1. This will cause a help popup window to be displayed. To grid and plot/display WET tomography output, you need to install Golden Software's Surfer® version 9 to 26. Download a free demo version at http://www.goldensoftware.com. You need to start up the free demo Surfer® interactively via Start menu after (re)installing it. Then click on the splash screen, which covers the Surfer® window. If you skip this step Rayfract® is not able to call Surfer® automatically for plotting. For the Standard version, please startup Surfer® and enter your license number first. The Surfer demo works fine for on-the-fly generation of screen plots showing tomograms obtained with our software. The Surfer demo is print-disabled and edited plots cannot be saved to disk. The Surfer 11 demo does not expire while latest Surfer 25/26 free trial expires after 2 weeks. Our address and contact information : Intelligent Resources Inc. Suite 142, 757 West Hastings Street Vancouver B.C. V6C 1A1 Canada Tel. 1 604 782-9845 Fax 1 604 408-8678 E-mail info@rayfract.com Web site https://rayfract.com Copyright © 1996-2024 Intelligent Resources Inc. All rights reserved. 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