Hi, I'm Drew Klaber, and in today's Tool Tip,
I want to show you how free software can expand
the capabilities of your existing Mitutoyo SJ Service Finish unit.
Before we can begin, we're going to need two things.
One, the free SJ communication tool, which can be downloaded from our website.
If you haven't already downloaded the software,
there's a link in the description below
where you can go and download the free software from our website.
And second, we're going to need a mini USB cable.
This is just a commercially available cable.
Once the software is downloaded, we'll begin with a zip file
that contains everything we need to install the software.
I'm going to open up the zip file to reveal the contents.
And inside I have a folder which contains all of the installers.
From here, I'm going to drag this folder to my desktop.
Once we open this folder now, we can begin the installation
by selecting the Surftest SJ-Communication-Tool.msi file.
Let's run the installer.
Depending on which version of windows you're running, you may get a message
before the installer can begin.
If so, select More Information and select Run Anyway.
Now we'll walk through the wizard
that we use for the installation again by pressing Next.
And let's change the software will be installed in the default directory, here.
Press Next to continue.
To begin installation, press the Next button one more time.
Once the installation is complete, let's press the Close button
and now we'll connect the SJ unit to the USB cable.
On the back of the SJ unit I've already removed the cover panel.
Now I'm going to take the mini USB cable and attach it to the USB port.
Lastly, before running the software,
we need to make sure that the drivers were successfully installed for the SJ unit.
Just for Good Housekeeping, I'm going to go ahead and close
out of the windows that are already open and return to my desktop.
From here, I'm going to load the Device Manager.
Once the Device Manager is loaded,
I noticed right away that my SJ unit is not showing up.
That's because the unit is not currently turned on.
I'm going to press the Power button on my SJ unit.
And now you'll notice on my list is an SJ-210,
which has not had any drivers associated with it yet.
To install the drivers for the SJ unit,
I'm going to right click on the device marked SJ-210
and select Update Drivers Software.
Next, I'm going to select Browse my computer for driver software.
Then I'll browse out to the location
where the installer was extracted on my desktop.
In this case, the folder is called SJ-210_310_410_USB.
Select, OK. Make sure the checkbox is selected that says Include subfolders.
Select Next to continue.
Once the drivers are updated, you will receive
this confirmation message, press the Close button.
Now we can close out of the Device Manager.
Now I can load the newly installed SJ communication tool software.
Normally the software will be launched through the Start menu,
but since this is Windows 8, there is no Start menu.
So to load the software, I'm going to select Search, type SJ
and select the SJ-Communication-Tool from the top item on the search list.
Now we're ready to use the software.
If you like, at this point, you can delete the installation file from the desktop.
But before you do, please note that in the extracted folder
there is a PDF manual for the software.
Thank you for watching today's Tool Tip.
If you have any other questions, please feel free to call us at 888-Mitutoyo.
Or visit us online at www.Mitutoyo.com.