The Special Edition version of Scanguard has been specially designed for attendees of our Professional Laser Show Safety Training Course. Anyone that attends the course also receives a copy of the Scanguard Special Edition completely free of charge. The Special Edition is a powerful analysis tool in its own right with virtually all the features of the Standard Edition, allowing users to try out and put into practice many of the things taught on the safety training course. In fact the only difference between the Special and Standard Editions is the ability to analyse ILDA frame files on the latter. And for anyone that wants to upgrade to the Standard or Professional Editions from the Special Edition they can do so at a preferential discount.

The Special Edition allows you to check a wide range of laser effects including scanned effects such as cones and flatscans, mirror ball reflections, diffracted effects, diffuse reflections and much more.

1. Scanned Laser Effect Analysis
2. Mirror Ball Sweeping Beam Effect Analysis
3. Line and Tunnel Diffraction Grating Analysis
4. Single and Multiple Wavelength and Beam Analysis
5. MPE, Wavelength, and Hazard Classification Reference
6. Scientific Safety Calculation Tools
7. Store Laser Projector and Effects Parameters
8. ANSI and IEC Notation

1. Scanned Laser Effect Analysis

• Scanguard Standard Edition allows you to check how classic laser effects such as flat scans, beam sweeps and tunnels all perform in terms of laser safety. The input parameters are fully customisable so that you can alter the laser effect's scan angle, the scan speed and the sweep rate.

• Learn how to design effects that are more audience scanning friendly by watching how the exposure levels change as you alter the effect's parameters. Scanguard even plots graphs of how the changes influence the laser radiation exposure.

• Use these tools to build up a repertoire of laser effects that you know do not have excessive laser radiation content.

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2. Mirror Ball Sweeping Beam Effect Analysis

Using Mirror balls to achieve a dramatic audience scanned effect is in many ways one of the easiest ways to perform safe audience scanning if carried out correctly. Due to the inertia of the rotating mirror ball, having to worry about the beams suddenly stop moving, is less of an issue, because the mirror balls will rarely stop rotating unexpectedly in a fraction of a second, as can galvanometers.

What is important is to be able to know that the beams reflecting from the mirror ball are safe for your installation. In order to help achieve this, Scanguard takes into account the mirror ball size, the number of facets on the ball, and the angle the laser beam strikes the ball at.

3. Line and Tunnel Diffraction Grating Analysis

This tool performs an estimation analysis on both line and tunnel diffraction grating effects. Size of the diffracted effects are fully adjustable to accommodate different gratings.

4. Single and Multiple Wavelength and Beam Analysis

Many of today's modern laser projectors use different internal light sources to create multicolour laser effects. Often these individual beams will have different properties such as divergence and radiant powers that need to be taken into account. Scanguard Standard helps to take this into account, allowing the user to enter these parameters through an easy to follow wizard that can then save the results as a named laser projector file, which can be recalled at any point in the future.

5. MPE, Wavelength, and Hazard Classification Reference

As with all versions of Scanguard, the software includes quick access tools to look up MPE data, wavelength/responsivity, and laser hazard classification references.

6. Scientific Safety Calculation Tools

There may be occasions when you need to find out a specific result for a given calculation. For this purpose Scanguard has an advanced calculation mode to allow users work directly with Scanguard's safety calculation engine.

7. Store Laser Projector and Effects Parameters

Keep of record of your laser system parameters and the effects you use so that they can be recalled at any point in the future. You can assign venue names and titles to the effects so that they become easy to remember when required.

8. ANSI and IEC Notation

Scanguard can be easily configured to work in either the ANSI units (such as Wcm-²) or the notation used in the IEC standards (e.g.Wm-²), so you can work with parameters and results in the method that you feel most comfortable in, and that is the preferred choice in your country.