exportCTF

The function exportCTF exports EBSD data from ebsd objects created with the crystallographic texture analysis tool MTEX to Channel Text Files (ctf) for further processing with interactive applications such as Oxford Instruments Channel5 or Atex. The function was tested with data that was imported into MTEX from Oxford Instruments cpr/crc files, but should work with any kind of imported data.

Function arguments:

function exportCTF(ebsd,fName,varargin)

• ebsd: MTEX ebsd-object
• fName: Name of output file including file ending ‘.ctf’ (Example ‘ebsdDataOut.ctf’)
• varargin: Variable argument in – optional arguments as parameter-value pairs:
  • ‘params’: The parameter params may be used to define optional microscopy acquisition parameters. By default the microscopy acquisition parameters are set to zeros. params may be combined with these values:
    • A structure containing the file information from an imported cpr/crc EBSD file (Example: …,’params’,cprStruct,…)
    • String ‘manual’ which will prompt the user to manually supply the parameters (Example: …,’params’,’manual’,…)
  • ‘flip’: The parameter flip may be paired with Boolean values 0 and 1 and indicates whether the ebsd spatial data (not the orientations) should be rotated by 180°. By default this parameter is set to 0 (no rotation). (Example: …,’flip’, 1,…)

Contact

If you encounter problems or have suggestions for improvement of this function feel free to contact me via contactnospam@fniessen.com (remove the nospam to make this email address work).

Frank Niessen, 18/04/2019