Legacy Motor

Note

Legacy Stage drivers are not recommended and are only provided for backward compatibility. Vidrio is currently unable to test these drivers and therefor cannot guarantee the correct functionality of these drivers.

When available, use a ScanImage 2020 stage driver instead.

The following legacy drivers are available:

  • Several Zaber stages (New Zaber Driver recommended instead)

  • Several Thorlabs stages (New Thorlabs Kinesis Driver recommended instead)

  • ASI MS-2000

  • Bruker MAMC

  • Galil DMC4040

  • Newport XPS

  • Prior ProScan III

  • Several PI stages

Software Config

In ScanImage, open the Resource configuration window from the startup dialog or from the Main Controls window under File>Configuration.

  1. From the Resource Configuration window, click the “+” button. Select Motor Controller from the sidebar, and select Legacy Motor. Give it a name and continue.

  2. A window like shown below will be displayed. Below the image is a description of each of the configuration parameters

../../_images/LegacyMotor1_Config.png ../../_images/LegacyMotor2_Config.png

Controller Type

Select the make and model of your legacy motor controller

Serial Port

Select the COM port which is connected to the controller

Note

The COM port can be determined by powering off and disconnecting the USB cable for the controller, and then watch the windows device manager under Ports (COM & LPT) while reconnecting and powering on the controller to see which COM Port is established.

Additional parameters

Some legacy motors can take additional parameters. Please the below table for a list of additional parameters by legacy motor

Invert Dimensions

This is a scalar/vector using 0s or 1s to represent non-inverted or inverted directionality of each dimension compared to default, respectively.

Position Device Units

Velocity Slow

The slow travel speed velocity in position device units

Velocity Fast

The fast travel speed velocity in position device units

Move Complete Delay

The delay in —— for ScanImage® to wait before being able to initiate a new move command

Move Timeout

The duration of time after the start of a move when the move operation will be aborted if the stage has not yet reached its destination

Move Timeout Factor

Additional Parameters

Model

Parameter

Description

[Model]

[Parameter]

[Description]