Release date: est Released Sept 2015
(Includes changes since 6.44.00)
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A new, easier method of setting up multiple lens designs for a digital vendor has been added. For complete details, please see 1.4 Setting Up Lens Designs using Import File (version 6.45.00).
A new report, Digital Surfacing Report, has been added, showing number of lenses per digital design, for a designated period of time, and all or specific vendor (version 6.45.00).
It is now possible to interface with a digital calculator(s) directly from Order Entry. For complete details, please see 1.5 Doing Digital Calculations From Order Entry (version 6.45.00).
New options are available to allow generating prism for digital jobs on equipment that supports that - for details, see 1.2 Prism on Digital Designs (version 6.45.00).
The DLP barcode will now be printed for Essilor jobs which send it from Essilor, when the PCL work ticket is being used with the "conveyor barcode option". For details, see Essilor (version 6.45.00).
Potential problem with LDTYPE
Beginning in version 6.45.00, Rx-Universe will now set the LDTYPE based on the digital file(s) returned by the digital vendor. The value of LDTYPE is set based on the extension of the file returned by the digital vendor; an extension of SDF results in LDTYPE=SDF, an extension of HMF will return LDTYPE=STF.
A problem can occur with SatisLoh equipment that asks for the LDTYPE label if the lab is using the Zeiss digital calculator. When a Zeiss job is called up on SatisLoh equipment, it could error out on the generator (the surface point file is in the wrong format).
This can happen if the lab is configured on the Zeiss server to return a surface point file in a format different than the format indicated in the web service communication from Zeiss, What happens is the Zeiss web service returns the data identifying it as HMF/STF format, but the data in the file is actually SDF format.
There are 3 approaches to resolve the problem:
1) Check to see if the Zeiss calculator returns the LDTYPE label in the LMS packet (use View/Device Info from the customer service screen for the job). If the LDTYPE label is part of the LMS packet, then go to the Digital Surface Types maintenance screen for the Zeiss calculator, under the “Device” tab, check “Save device LDTYPE”. Checking this will cause the LDTYPE received in the LMS packet from the calculator to be sent to the device. Be sure to restart the digital processor and device session, and you will need to recalculate the job(s) to use the new setting.
2) If LDTYPE is not in the LMS packet then the lab can contact Zeiss to request it be added.
3) If LDTYPE is not in the LMS file, and the lab can't wait for Zeiss to add LDTYPE, a VCA override can be placed in each Zeiss digital design that the lab uses. The VCA Label will be set to LDTYPE while the value will be set to “SDF” or “HMF” or “STF” depending on the types of surface points being returned by the Zeiss digital calculator for the SatisLoh equipment. To determine the types of points in use, go to the folder that contains the SDF files for the digital calculators. The files names are based on the order numbers. Using an order that used a Zeiss design, find a file called “order#”_R.HMF, using a file editor open the file.
- If the first line contains “REQ=SDF” then the surface point type is SDF.
- If the second line contains an entry similar to “11004674_R.stf” then the surface point type is STF.
- If the first 2 conditions are not present, then the surface point type is HMF.
Zeiss Digital with Schneider Equipment and Alternate Interface (version 6.44.05)
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Lens Receiving and Inventory Count have been modified to allow scanning of OPC codes (see Lens Receiving and Inventory Count) (version 6.45.00).