2014년 10월 5일 일요일

[DIAdem] The way to use a data-plugin in DIAdem


DIAdem is software specifically designed to help engineers and scientists quickly locate, inspect, analyze, and report on measurement data using one software tool.

The introduction of DIAdem is as follow.

NI DIAdem is a single software tool that you can use to quickly locate, load, visualize, analyze, and report measurement data collected during data acquisition and/or generated during simulations. It is designed to meet the demands of today’s testing environments, which require you to quickly access, process, and report on large volumes of scattered data in multiple custom formats to make informed decisions. DIAdem is a component of the NI Technical Data Management (TDM) solution

DIAdem is the Post-Process program to load and analyze the TDMS file. DIAdem also support the different data-type such as excel, text file. This article explain how to read a this kind of files.

National Instruments provides many Data-Plugins which is used normally. You can download these files from the Data-Plugin site. 


If there are no a Data-Plugin file,  you can use the wizard to translate from your file to the TDMS file. 

1) First of all, you have to check the file to read. This post will read an ASC type file like a below picture.



2) To run a Text DataPlugin Wizard, you should click File - Text DataPlugin Wizard. 




3) Choose the file. I selected asc which is a file extension.


4) In DataPlugin an Wizard, you can see the window like a below picture. File Structure Window is not important to read this file. You just click the Next Button.


5) In Group Properties, you should check the file structure. The first and second line in DataPlugin_Example.asc file  seems to be meant the group information. In the below picture, the name and description is properly configured. You should click a Next Button again.


6) As you can see the file, the configuration for channel is 4 and 5 line. 4 Line(Date, T_min, T_max, AverageTemp,Rain, and T_6h) is channel names and 5 line means the unit for the channel.

It is separated by ';'. So you have to check the Semicolon checkbox in the Column separators. After this process, you can see the window like a below picture which is divided the proper property.



7) Step 4 of 5 in the DataPlugin Wizard is to set the values for the each channel. In the file, there are many lines for it(Below { February }). You should check a Space checkbox because data is separated by ','.  


8) You can save the configuration for this file after these processes. If you save this configuration, you can load this type file easily next time. If you want to finish this process, you just click the Finish button.


9) In Data Portal: Internal Data, you can see the loaded data from file successfully.


This article explained how to use the DataPlugin to read a ASC-type file.
Thanks.

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