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2 STINGER, A GUIDE TO ADHESIVE DOT DISPENSING 2.3 SOFTWARE INTERFACE 38 GUIDE TO ADHESIVE DOT DISPENSING STINGER 03/2021 2.3.7 Setup Sites Exiting the create page displays the Setup Sites page. Sites are created until al…

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The Dispense and Measure options are: None (grey) - site measurement is disabled; Measure

Only (yellow) - the laser measures the site at the given co-ordinates to output height corrections;

Dispense Only (red) - adhesive is dispensed at the programmed dispense gap; and Measure and

Dispense (amber) - the site is measured by laser to give height corrections before dispensing

takes place. There is also an option to place sites where a purge operation can take place. Purge

After Downtime sites are programmed as sacrificial sites, and are used to clear the nozzle of any

adhesive, which may have hardened after a downtime period; the sites are denoted by a blue

rectangle; they are the first sites to be added.

Navigation controls are available on the create site page these include:

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Zoom In - Control zooms in to selected site one step at a time

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Zoom Out - Reverses the zoom in levels in single steps

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Full Zoom Out - Zooms out to top level in a single step

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Load Image - Loads a Bitmap (.bmp) or extended Gerber Image (.gbx)

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Hide Image / Show Image - Hiding the image leaves the programmed sites displayed

without the product data image. A useful feature to quickly assess how many sites are set

to: dispense only; measure only; or dispense and measure.

6. Select Accept.

7. When a site has been placed and adjusted select Confirm to save settings and exit the create

sites page. Or, select Cancel

to exit the page without saving.

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2.3.7 Setup Sites

Exiting the create page displays the Setup Sites page. Sites are created until all sites, which re-

quire either adhesive dots, measurement, or both have been programmed. In the setup sites page

each site can be edited by selecting the site, either from the image data or from the site ID/Site

Name table.

In the example below, site 11 has been selected. In the product image view it is shown highlighted,

the white rectangle toward the bottom right of the board image; the table confirms the selection of

the site as it is highlighted yellow in the table.

Purge 2

Purge 3

Purge 1

Site 11

These controls allow the user to scroll up and down through lengthy lists of programmed sites;

zoom into and out of areas of the product image and show or hide the product image, a useful fea-

ture when looking at the dispense mode for individual sites.

Using the site edit functionality, sites that have been created can be adjusted, deleted, and moved

up or down in the ID/Site Name table.

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1. Selecting Adjust Site allows adjustment to individual sites. The editable parameters which

were available in the create page are reproduced.

2. The site, or all sites, can be deleted if the Delete Site functionality is selected. The user can

opt to delete the current site or all sites.

3. Selecting Move Site Up/Move Site Down buttons allows the order in which measurements

are taken or where the adhesive is laid down to be altered. This can be useful when sites

have been added after the initial site creation; for example, it may be necessary to add more

sites to give a larger area for adhesion. To speed the deposition process up the sites can be

grouped together.

Further navigation controls are available where several sites have been programmed. Up/

Down and Page Up/Page Down; Zoom Controls; and Show/Hide Image options are available.

4. The Import/Export functionality allows the user to import and export data in a format that al-

lows the data to be manipulated in an external editing application or database.

5. Export data can be exported out of the application into a suitable editing program; once ed-

ited, it can be re-imported back into the site list using the Import functionality described above.

Import and Append data edited in the external application can be imported and added to the

list at the end of the current site list.

Import and Overwrite data in an external application can be imported and current sites are

overwritten.

The data is imported and exported to a path setup in the product directory; Maintenance\Ma-

chine Setup\Data Coms\Network\ Product Directory. The file is named the same name as

its current product file name and appended with.csv. The.csv stands for comma-separated

values a recognised spreadsheet format.

In the example shown, the dispense gap is zero (Figure 1. Row 2 Column G).

Where the data is edited in the Stinger software application and exported; the data in the.csv

file is as shown in Figure 2.

If the data is edited in the external application and saved, as shown in Figure 3, when impor-

ted back into the Stinger application, the data is automatically updated.

6. Select the site in the ID/Site Name table and confirm the change by selecting Adjust Site to

view the Dispense Gap (Figure 4).

The dispense modes as shown in column F in the table are defined as integers 0 to 4 as fol-

lows:

Dispense Mode Integer

None 0

Measure Only 1

Dispense Only 2

Measure and Dispense 3

Purge After Downtime 4