WEDGELINK SOFTWARE UTILITY

WedgeLink RS232C Software Utility...
allows you to transfer measurements from your DIGI-MET or any RS232C gage directly to Windows applications such as Microsoft Excel or your favorite SPC software program. You may even write the data to your own disk file. Data parsing is also available if you need to remove or add information.

Key Features Serial Communications

You can have 2 serial devices connected simultaneously to WedgeLink.

If your computer does not have any physical serial ports, you can easily add 1 or more serial ports with a USB to serial cable.

Separate parsing schemes can be set up for the data coming from each serial port.

Data Parsing (WedgeLink Standard only)

5 independent parsing schemes can be created.

You can specify which input port the scheme will be applied to.

If a packet contains a unique string, WedgeLink can select the parsing scheme to be applied to this packet based on the unique strong.

Each parsing scheme allows you to do the following: Specify a prefix string to add to the beginning of each data packet. Specify a suffix string to add to the end of each data packet. Add the date and/or time to the data packet. Delete unwanted characters or character positions. Insert strings before or after specified character positions. Discard packets that do not contain the specified match string. Replace specified characters with a unique string. Math functions for screening high/low values, finding numeric fields, applying equations, etc. A packet can be identified by any combination of the following: A unique end-of-packet character. Number of characters in the packet. Gap time between packets.

Testing

There are two types of testing built into WedgeLink: Data Parsing (WedgeLink Standard only) and Serial Communications. Often the information coming from your serial device is in a different format than what many customers realize. The testing features we have built into WedgeLink will enable you to get your system up and running in a minimum amount of time.

Data Parsing testing allows you to simulate the input from your serial device so that you can verify that you have properly set up your data parsing.

Serial Communications testing allows you to verify the format of the information that is sent from your serial device, and to test the commands that you may need to send to your serial device.

DDE

Support for both WedgeLink Lite and Standard.

A more effective way of transferring data to Microsoft Excel.

Allows WedgeLink to maintain the focus so that it is easier to use the command buttons and hot keys within WedgeLink to send commands to your serial device(s).

Send Commands

You can specify up to 100 commands.

You can specify which port(s) are to receive the commands.

6 commands can be assigned to the command button on the main WedgeLink window.

7 hot keys can be assigned to any of your commands (F2 to F8).

Specify number of times the command will be repeated.

Specify delays within commands.

Typical Instruments used by our WedgeLink CustomersYou can use any serial device with WedgeLink. It will work with RS-232, RS422, and RS485 devices.

MicroRidge gage interfaces

Balances

Barcode scanners

Card readers

Digital and RS-232 gages (calipers, micrometers, etc.)

Flow meters

Force gages

Laboratory instruments

Moisture meters

OCR devices

Optical readers

Scales

Spectrometers

Torque testers

Data loggers . . . Plus hundreds of other instruments and devices can be used with WedgeLink. If you have a question about a particular instrument or device you are using, please contact us.

System Requirements

WedgeLink is a 32-bit application designed for Microsoft Windows.

3 MB of free disk space.

1 or more available serial ports.

Requires Windows 2000 or XP.

Please contact us if you plan to use WedgeLink with Microsoft Vista.