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NTI offers users a one stop shop by suppling your complete laser / scanning needs including electronic control and software. If time to market, performance and ease of use of your laser system are important, WaveRunner can make your project a quick success. The power, ease and flexibility of WaveRunner's User Interface is the most advanced and professional package in the industry.

WaveRunner laser / scanning control software offers a robust and flexible solution to make your laser / scanning control project a success. WaveRunner control software is a fully featured, professional Windows based software package for laser marking, cutting, drilling, coding, perforating, and many other laser scanning applications. When combined with the SurfBoard-USB board, a 2 or 3-axis scan head and a laser, the laser processing possibilities are endless.

The software allows graphics job editing that enables you to assemble images, text, and barcodes and quickly arrange them into marking jobs. With a simple point and click, you can graphically edit marking objects, precisely control laser parameters, and build automation scripts within a single interface. You will be able to define and run jobs within a few minutes.

This high performance, laser scanning control solution is designed specifically to run on Windows XP / Vista. And with the built in Active-X Server, real time machine performance can be managed and monitored over an Ethernet network.

Below you will find an overview of WaveRunner's many capabilities.

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MAIN SCREEN
WaveRunner's Main Screen allows users to interact easily with the graphical interface by using familiar Windows based transactions. The center area, which represents the working area, can be customized with a grid of varying dimensions. This WYSIWYG screen shows you exactly what you can expect when you execute a Job. Several Entities can be laid out, each having an individual laser / scanning control profile.

Tabs on the right side allow quick access to Entity information and setup allowing you to easily setup or modify Entities to match your Job requirements.

Toolbars along the top allow for one click access to a variety of features including placement of text, barcodes, circles, squares, lines, triangles, freehand, inputs, outputs, timers, zoom, save, cut, copy and many more.

Along the left is an Entity priority list showing the order in which Entities will be executed during a job. The order can be changed easily by simply sliding the Entity up or down the list.

PREVIEW SCREEN
The Preview Screen is a powerful tool, exclusive to WaveRunner, which allows users to monitor and troubleshoot a Job. This screen shows the Job Entities and all jump moves between vectors. Along the right side is a list of program execution commands, which can be monitored real time as a Job is executed. Along the bottom, scanner and laser commands can be monitored real time as a Job executes.
VIEW AND OPTIC SETTING SCREEN
The View Setting Screen allows the user to set up the look of the Main Screen by selecting the background color, pen colors, and grid spacing and functions.
The Optic Setting Screen allows users to lens information, correction file location, adjust gain, offset and home location, invert axes and select buffering for serialization.
WAVERUNNER GENERAL SETTINGS
The General Settings Screen allows the user to select how Jobs will be opened and closed. 		WAVERUNNER HARDWARE SETTINGS
The Hardware Settings Screen allows the user to select the laser type and laser settings. It also allows the user to select Mark-On-The-Fly and to test Outputs.
WAVERUNNER REMOTE SETTINGS & I/O SETTINGS
The Remote Settings Screen allows users to set up remote communications with WaveRunner.
The I/O Settings Screen allows users to configure Input and Output functions.
MARK TAB
The Mark Tab allows users to setup the control parameters for an Entity. Pens are used to setup an Entities Mark Speed, Scanner Control and Laser Control parameters.
Global settings allow control over all Entities.
WAVERUNNER CONTROL
The Control Tab allows users to setup Inputs, Outputs and Timer Functions.
TEXT TAB
The Text Tab allows users to enter text, select laser or True Type fonts, select font size and orientation, character and line spacing, italic and bold functions and set up radial text. 		ENTITY INFORMATION TAB
The Entity Information Tab allows users to name an entity, select to mark outline and hatch and set up array information and mark direction.
POWER CONTROLS
The Power Control Screens allow users to linearize grey scale marking and laser power settings.
GEOMETRY TAB
The Geometry Tab shows users detailed information about the geometry of an Entity. 		BARCODE TAB
The Barcode Tab allows users to enter barcode data, select barcode type, set barcode format and adjust barcode parameters. 		BITMAP TAB
The Bitmap Tab allows users to setup and adjust bitmap Entities.
DIMENSIONS
The Dimensions Tab allows users to move and dimension entities exactly where they would like. Z-dimension allows translation in the third dimension. 		HATCH
The Hatch Tab allows users multiple hatch algorithms. One or two hatch directions can be selected at user defined angles. Hatch start and stop offsets can be added.
VECTORS
Any Entity can be displayed as a list of individual vectors. Here the user can edit and modify any Entity by manipulating individual vectors in the list. 		START
The Start Screen allows the user to start a Job, setup the pointer preview function, select Entities to be executed and select the repeat function. There are several pointer setup features to allow a variety of automated pointer options.
SERIALIZATION TAB
The Serialization Tab allows users to setup serialization parameters and file location for database merge applications.