Scanlab RTC 5 PC Interface Board, Installation And Operation Manual

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RTC
®
5 PC Interface Board
Rev. 1.9 e
7 Basic Functions for Scan Head and Laser Control
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mented after an uncontinued aborted list (if
necessary, the number can be corrected via
set_serial or set_serial_step , but only within a
10-digit range).
• The control command select_serial_set lets you
select (independently of selection via
select_serial_set_list ) a serial-number-set for the
control commands set_serial_step and
set_serial (e.g. for assigning parameters for a
serial-number-set while marking another serial-
number-set. Note that the RTC
®
5 does not
suppress modifying parameters of the serial-
number-set currently being marked). The control
commands
set_serial_step and set_serial always
apply to the serial-number-set most recently
selected via
select_serial_set (or to serial-
number-set 0 after load_program_file ).
• get_serial returns the current serial number of
the serial-number-set selected via
select_serial_set (if multiple serial-number-sets
exist, then the returned serial number isn’t neces-
sarily the most recently marked serial number).
• Older software versions (DLL 536, OUT 536 and
earlier) only allowed one serial-number-set.
Because version DLL 537, OUT 537 and higher
select serial-number-set 0 after
load_program_file , you can continue using
already-existing user programs (even those
without the new commands
select_serial_set
and select_serial_set_list ).
• The control command
set_max_counts
allows
specification of the maximum number of external
list starts and thus the maximum number of
externally started markings. The number of
external list starts can be obtained with the
control command
get_counts
. When a single
serial-number-set is used, these commands let
you indirectly set the maximum serial number
and query the current serial number. But when
multiple serial-number-sets are used, these
commands won’t differentiate between the
various serial-number-sets.