pyanc350 is a Python wrapper for controlling attocube systems AG's ANC350 piezoelectric control electronics. It contains an implementation of the C++ header for the attocube ANC350 controller (ANC350lib) plus a more Pythonesque reimagining (PyANC350). It suppports DLL versions 2, 3, and 4.

The original implementation by Rob Heath ([email protected]) was updated to support later ANC350 libraries by Brian Schaefer ([email protected]). Both of these were updated for Python 3.x and packaged as a proper Python module in December 2018.

The package is on PyPI. To install via pip:

pip install pyanc350

Alternatively, you can download the repository and use it directly.

The wrapper needs the attocube-provided DLLs to talk to the ANC350 hardware.

Put anc350v2.dll, nhconnect.dll, and libusb0.dll in the same folder as your program.

Put anc350v3.dll or anc350v4.dll and libusb0.dll in the same folder as your program.

If using v2: from pyanc350.v2 import Positioner

If using v3: from pyanc350.v3 import Positioner

If using v4: from pyanc350.v4 import Positioner

If using multiple, the cleanest way is to import the top-level module and use that:

import pyanc350

p2 = pyanc350.v2.Positioner()
p3 = pyanc350.v3.Positioner()
p4 = pyanc350.v4.Positioner()