Splitting > Splitting Settings

Each splitting mode has its own splitting settings dialog. The splitting settings can be opened by two different paths. Via Extras → Splitting → Settings → Splitting Mode. Alternatively, the splitting settings can be opened via the extras toolbar. The following documentation contains all relevant parameters for all splitting modes. They are divided in the general and mode section.

General:

Splitting Option: Splitting is divided into splitting modes and splitting options. In total five different modes and four different options are available. Those are listed in the several splitting mode subchapters and explained in the splitting options. The user can choose the splitting option in the respective splitting settings dialog. It can be set while selecting the wanted splitting option from the drop down menu.

Axis Speed: This is a general parameter of planar [mm/s] and angular [deg/s] operation modes. It defines the speed used for the connected drive between the split parts. The speed defined here overrides the speed defined in the Control submenu of the entity property page.

MOTF Speed: The moving speed can be selected. It can maximally be the Maximum MOTF Speed. At this point it is important, that the moving speed is relative to the marking speed of the current split part, so that it is finished before it is out of the scanning field.

Maximum MOTF Speed: Calculates internally the maximum possible MOTF speed for the marking. This parameter is read-only an can not be edited.

Split Repetitions: Defines how often the marking of each split part is repeated before the motion device moves to the next split part. The individual Mark Loop Count values for each entity is ignored in splitting mode. If repetition for each entity is wished, one can use Pen Path instead.

Job Repetitions: After marking the last split part, the scanner starts again with the first part. This process is repeated according to the number of this total repeat value.

Split Overlap: With this option you can increase the area of a single split part. The overlap is done in positive splitting direction. Only constant vectors that end within the added space are marked. For an example see Visualization of Special Options.

Group Width: It is possible to group entities to decrease the marking time. The Rotation Axis dimension of the group outlines will not exceed this value. Entities with a greater Rotation Axis dimension than the grouped entities width will not be grouped with other entities. Not available if Top Level Entities as Split Parts is checked.

Start Position: Enable the Activate checkbox to define start values for the splitting. Define the start position of the splitting routine for the axis. The value you put in this field defines the absolute position. With the button Get Current Position, it is possible to set the value of the current motion controller as start value. When using a defined start position, the Mark Trigger window is not available. Axis movement is not interpolated for more than one axis, in case of 2D Splitting both axis move after each other to the Start Position.

Ring Center Position: Define a starting position for the ring center in X- / Y- direction. (available for ring splitting)

Job Repetitions Gap: Here you can define a gap between two job repetitions. (only 1D MOTF splitting)

Workpiece Movement: Invert all movements, the workpiece is moving instead of the scan head.

Automatic Start Position: Provided that the split is centered on the working area and that the motion axes are on position 0,0. The user does not have to specify where the split should begin. The motion device moves automatically to the start position of the split. (only 2D planar splitting)

Move Back to Start Position: The scan head returns to the starting position after each marking. If unchecked, the scan head stops at the position where the marking finished and the next marking will start from there.

Keep Mark In Progress Active: Without this checkbox, the OptoOut0 (DigiOut0 for RTC cards) is set to 1 every time a split is marked and it is set back to 0 during the axis movement between the split parts. If this checkbox is activated, the marking signal via OptoOut0 (DigiOut0 for RTC cards) would stay at 1 as long as the complete job (including all splits and axis movement) is marked.

Cog Vectors in Overlap Area: If the entity contains many vectors that reach into the next split part, the quality of the marking sometimes depends on the position of each split. If all lines are split on a uniform edge, heating issues can occur and the marking quality may suffer. The marking quality can be enhanced if those lines are split on a cogged edge instead of on a uniform one. Activate this checkbox to split with a cogged edge. For an example see Visualization of Special Options.

Avoid Unnecessary Splits: This option optimizes the positioning of the split lines to accelerate the marking process by avoiding unnecessary splits. The order of the split marking process can be changed by this option. For an example see Visualization of Special Options.

Do Not Recalculate Split Lines: Re-split does not change the split lines. The entities can be exchanged.

Center Whole Job on Current Axis Position: Start position of the marking is always the same while using this option. The first split part will be always marked at the same position.

Skip empty Splits: If this option is enabled then the scanner will not move to empty split parts. (only 2D planar splitting)

Top Level Entities as Split Parts: Top level entities will not be split into smaller parts, but will be marked as a whole. This checkbox is always active as the entity based splitting mode only marks top level entities uncut. This means that the top level entity needs to fit into the working area. Split parts will be set in between of top level entities.

Order by Start Border: The marking order depends on the position of the entity. The order in the entity list will be ignored. Example: If the split order is from left to right, then the entity which is most left positioned will be marked first.

Ungroup Text: The characters of a ScWinTextChars2D entity can be ungrouped. In this case, each character of a text is taken as an individual entity for the marking process.

Endless Job Repetition: All split parts are grouped and endlessly repeated. Enables the function Job Repetition Gap. (only 1D MOTF splitting)

Center All Split Parts: All split parts will be placed in the center of the working area. For "Entity Based Splitting", a drop-down-menu allows for intelligent placement of the split parts. "First split part at border" will place the first split part at the border of the working area (in direction of the Split Order), the following split parts will be placed by SAMLight intelligently, in order to optimize MOTF speeds. "First split part in center" will place the first split part in the center of the working area, the following split parts will be placed intelligently. "Center all split parts" will deactivate intelligent placement and place all split parts in the center. (only 1D MOTF splitting)

Mode:

Axis: The axis that defines the splitting direction can be set here.

Horizontal Axis: The motion axis that performs the horizontal movements can be defined here. You cannot use the same axis as Vertical Axis.

Vertical Axis: The motion axis that performs the vertical movements can be defined here. You cannot use the same axis as Horizontal Axis.

Split Order: This button defines the splitting and marking order of the split parts. There are four possibilities: from bottom to top, from left to right, from top to bottom and from right to left. Switch between options by clicking on the button.

Split Size: The size of one single split part can be defined here. This size needs to be smaller than the working area in the same direction.

Split Width: You can define the horizontal split width here. The split width needs to be smaller than the working area in the horizontal direction and defines the resulting horizontal part size.

Split Height: You can define the vertical split height here. The split height needs to be smaller than the working area in the vertical direction and defines the resulting vertical part size.

Diameter: Define the diameter of the object that has to be marked. In case of a cylindrical object this would be the diameter of the base surface.

Height: Transverse dimension of the ring.

Margin: Shows an optical helping line that reduces the height. No influence on marking output.

Split Angle: This angle in degrees describes the size of one split part.

Repetitions over 360°: If the total diameter and the resulting surface of the cylinder is big enough, more than one copy of the job can be marked on the surface. The different markings are distributed homogeneously over the total generated surface of the cylinder.

Z Tilt Compensation: This feature is to be used with Ring splitting tilt compensation in Global settings → Extras → Splitting.

Keep Bitmap Size: Bitmap is not scaled in order to get a size that results in the specified marking angle, the source bitmap is left untouched.

Move Forward to Start Position: Move to start position after marking has been finished.

Tolerate Larger Split Jobs Than 360°: This allows a continuous rotation with an angle greater than 360°.