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).
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It is now possible to interface with a digital calculator(s) directly from Order Entry. For complete details, please see Doing Digital Calculations From Order Entry (version 6.45.00)
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Interfaces with digital calculators can now be done either directly from the order entry screen, or using the Digital Processor. Previous versions of Rx-Universe always used the Digital Processor to communicate with digital calculators.
The advantage of communicating with digital calculator(s) directly from order entry is that the user can see the results of the digital calculation directly from within order entry, and the work ticket that is printed, from OE, includes the results of the digital calculation.
The dis-advantage of doing digital calculations directly from Order Entry is that the user must wait for the communication with the DS calculator to finish before being able to finish entering/modifying the order. For a digital calculator that is located locally, this should be a short wait of, at most, a few seconds, but for a web-based digital interface, it could be many seconds, or even minutes.
The "mode" of communication can be set on the Digital Type setup for each manufacture. Note that this option affects only manually entered orders in Rx-Universe - orders sent electronically will still be processed by the Digital Processor.
When the "Interface at OE" is checked, digital jobs will communicate directly with the LDS calculator from order entry, and the digital processor will NOT process these jobs. The Digital Processor will, however, continue to process any jobs being received electronically from other systems.
The "Timeout for LMS files in OE" specifies how long, in seconds, the order entry session should wait for a response from the digital calculator.
Within order entry, when a digital job is entered, and the "F9/Calcs" button is pressed, the connection to the calculator is initiated. A series of messages will be displayed showing the progress of the communication.
Once the communication is complete, and results received, the results are available just as for a toric (non-digital job). Clicking the device icon will display the calculation results screen:
If results are not received back within the timeout period, an error will be raised:
An appropriate error will also be saved as the "digital status" of the job:
For Zeiss digital jobs, if the option "Print Zeiss Digital Ticket at Digital Processor" on the Digital tab under System Parameters is checked, then the Zeiss Digital Ticket will be printed when the LMS file is received back from Zeiss (within Order Entry).
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A new option has been added to the device setup to allow sending any prism that wasn't blocked, to a generator for digital jobs. When checked, this causes digital jobs to be run the same as toric jobs; the maximum amount of prism supported by the blocker will be blocked, and any remaining prism sent to the generator. If a generator does not support prism on digital jobs, this option should be UNchecked:
If not all prism can be blocked, and the generator does not allow GPRVM to be sent for digital jobs, then an error will be raised when the job is requested by the generator, and the job not manufactured. This will prevent jobs from being manufactured without the correct amount of prism..
New options are available to allow generating prism for digital jobs on equipment that supports that - for details, see 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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Invoice Export to XML has been modified to add an option to allow export to CSV (version 6.44.09).
Invoice Export has been modified to add a new option: Active orders only (version 6.45.00).
Inventory
Lens Receiving and Inventory Count have been modified to allow scanning of OPC codes (see Lens Receiving and Inventory Count) (version 6.45.00).