GSI V-Stars Interface Overview

The GSI V-Stars Interface can be divided into 4 sections:

 

 

 

Section 1: Target Label Definition

This section designates the Collection Group/Cloud and Target sent to SA for a particular target. Typically the target names sent to SA should match those used by V-Stars. To ensure this Check the Use VStars Label Check box. Checking the Inc check box will auto-increment Group/ Cloud names. When checked, the group or cloud name will automatically increment after each time data is sent to SA. In probing applications this should be turned off so that you can get multiple points in the same group(Figure 6-28).

 

Section 2: Trigger Functions

Data triggering needs to be defined and set up within V-Stars. When in M-Mode either a single trigger can be sent or V-Stars can be set to a continuous mode. The buttons in section 2 then act as a start stop function for either M-Mode or S-Mode.

 

Section 3: Data To Send to SA

When a Trigger event is recorded data is sent from the interface to SA. The type of data sent is controlled by a set of radio buttons.

Data Source controls work as follows:

The Set Labels buttons provide access to a filters control. They are used to set the V-Stars data types (labels) which will be sent when measuring either ‘Targets’ or ‘Cloud (ProSpot)’. The Targets data selection de- faults to “CODE”, and the Cloud (ProSpot) data selection defaults to “S”. The selections denote strings. When any of the selected strings are found in the V-Stars label of a point, that point will be sent to SA in the selected data form (‘Targets’ means points, and ‘Cloud (ProSpot)’ means a point cloud). To include additional data types simply check the use check box next to the data type.

 

Section 4: Data Type to Send to SA

 

MP Command List:

V-Stars specific MP control can be obtained using the following commands: