To install the Rayfract® trial, please proceed as described below : For installation under Windows XP/VISTA/7 please 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 3.17, on Windows 7. Download the installable archive file RAYTRIAL.EXE from our web site http://rayfract.com, link "Trial" or directly from the associated URL address http://rayfract.com/trial/RAYTRIAL.EXE. Start up your web browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Then specify one of these addresses in the URL address field on top of the browser window and hit RETURN. Once you have downloaded RAYTRIAL.EXE, copy it into a temporary directory on the target hardware, e.g., C:\TEMP or C:\TMP. To start up the self-installing archive, run ...\RAYTRIAL.EXE from DOS or from Windows. Please substitute drive name and directory path into which you copied installation file RAYTRIAL.EXE for ... . Under Windows XP/VISTA/7 click on the Start button, and then select menu item Run, at the bottom of the menu. In the Run dialog, key in above command line, with correct drive and directory path (e.g. command line "C:\TEMP\RAYTRIAL.EXE"). Alternatively, specify the command line by clicking on your Browse/Search button, displayed at the bottom of the Run dialog. In the following, first navigate to the hard disk partition and directory containing your archive file RAYTRIAL.EXE. Then select this file by clicking on it. To execute the command line, press the ENTER/RETURN key, or click on the OK button. When the installation program displays the "Select Destination Directory" dialog, please 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). To verify the positive outcome of above installation, please test starting up the Rayfract® trial, as described below : To start up Rayfract®, proceed as follows : Under Windows XP/VISTA/7 double-click the desktop link with our icon. The 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 do have the option to rent or purchase a full functionality license : 4 month rental or unlimited license. For details see our web site http://rayfract.com, link "Pricing". 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 : For a .PDF version of our Windows help file, please see http://rayfract.com/help/rayfract.pdf . This may be easier for viewing. 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 of the online help for details. You may start up the online help 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 EJEMPL3.pdf tutorial available at http://rayfract.com/tutorials/EJEMPL3.pdf. Also review the introductory "Tutorial" chapter of our manual at http://rayfract.com/help/manual.pdf . Or work through some tutorials at http://rayfract.com/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ZIP. The original data sets are available for download. Just click on the corresponding link in the tutorial. Please be aware that your trial license will handle up to ten shots per profile only ! We recommend to renumber the shots to 0 to 9 during import. Just edit the "Shot Number" field value in the "Import Shot" dialog. See the online help / chapter "System limitations" for Rayfract® versions with extended capabilities. 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 automatically grid and plot/display WET tomography output, you need to install Golden Software's Surfer® version 8 or 9. You may download a free demo version at http://www.golden.com. Enter e.g. state CA for registration. 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 full version, please startup Surfer® and enter your license number first. . Our postal mailing address and contact information : Intelligent Resources Inc. P.O. Box 2011 Vancouver B.C. 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