Released 11 Dec 2013
Order Entry
When entering a digital surfacing job, and pre-selecting a donor blank with an add power (whether truly an add, or a degression), no longer automatically populate the ADD field on the Rx screen with the add from the blank. This was done for compatibility with digital designs which use a split-add design (part of the add on the donor blank and part incorporated into the back-surface design) (version 6.34.00).
The Upper Add field was not being displayed correctly for occupational multifocals (version 6.33.07).
Digital Surfacing
Some LDS calculators will calculate a center thickness much thinner than others, because of the design of the back surface. In certain circumstances, Rx-Universe could omit a blank from consideration because it appears to be too thin, but in fact might work because of the CT calculations of the LDS. The check in Rx-Universe for blank center thickness has been relaxed to avoid this error (version 6.34.00).
Calculations
Calculation of ELLH has been modified to ensure that ELLH can never be larger than the CRIB value, nor larger than the DIA of the blank (version 6.34.00).
Reports
The VSP report has been changed to include two new products, BluTech and SunSync (version 6.33.04).
Device Interfaces
The VCA interface has been modified to correct a problem where the number of points sent to the INDO digital calculator could be changed if a previously received LMS file, also from INDO, contained TRCFMT records with a different number of points than that specified in the LDI file (version 6.33.05).
Special handling has been added for the non-standard label “_BRANCH”; this label will be treated as non-chiral, and is used for Vision-Ease digital (version 6.33.06).
Support for LDVEN, PHOTO labels has been added to the VCA interface (version 6.34.00).
If a value is blank for a text field, Rx-Universe would previously send a space in the interface. This caused problems for some devices; if a text value is blank, Rx-Universe now sends nothing for the value (version 6.34.00).
On the device setup screen for a VCA device, a new checkbox has been added to suppress cribbing. This replaces the older method of using a value of 0 in the “Cribbing Allowance” fields to suppress cribbing. This also means that the cribbing allowance fields can be set to 0, which will cause the calculated cribbing values to be sent to the device, with no “extra” added at the device interface (version 6.34.00).
ART and Nucleo Blocker Interfaces
Enhanced support for the Nucleo and ART blockers from SatisLoh has been added, included setting blocking methods for each system-wide, by material, by lens style, and by individual order. When using either of these new blocking methods, Rx-Universe will select the correct ART or Nucleo block based on lab-specified rules, on the new Nucleo tab in System Parameters. Complete details on implementing is available in Setting Up and Selecting ART/Nucleo Blocks
XFD Changes
OMGND.XFD - Added new field: GND-SUPPRESS-CRIB
OMFREE.XFD - Added new fields:
WS-NUCLEO-SPHERIC-SW
WS-NUCLEO-ASPHERIC-SW
WS-NUCLEO-PROGRESSIVE-SW
WS-NUCLEO-FAIL-TOLERANCE
WS-NUCLEO-RECALC-TOLERANCE
CREDORDERS.XFD
CREDORDERS2.XFD
ONEORDER.XFD
ONEORDER2.XFD
RXORDERS.XFD
RXORDERS2.XFD
STORDERS.XFD
STORDER2.XFD
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Added new fields:
ORD-MODIFIED-FRNT-RT
ORD-MODIFIED-FRNT-LT
ORD-NUCLEO-REPRINT-WT