ETAS MDA V8.5 - Maintaining Measure Files

ETAS 2 Configuration Creation
Ideally, this should be a CSV file according to Real Driving Emissions
(RDE) standard for data exchange format of PEMS.
l *.dxl (ASCII Multi Rate V4.0)
Additionally, MDA V8.5 allows to define customer-specific textual (ASCII) meas-
ure file formats by an INI file. For more information, see "Defining
ASCIIMeasure File Formats" on page22.
With the optional CAN Bus Trace add-on, MDA supports the analysis of CAN bus
trace files (BLF) in combination with a bus description file (DBC). This add-on is
recommended to use trace file contents as ordinary measure files.
To enable the Bus Trace functionality, you need a valid license provided with the
INCA CAN-Trace add-on.
You can perform the following actions:
l "To add a measure file" below
l "To load and interpret a bus trace file (BLF)" on the next page
l "To use the "Add or Replace Files" dialog" on the next page
l "To replace a measure file" on page30
l "To remove a measure file" on page31
l "To remove all "No-Match" signals" on page31
To add a measure file
To see how you can add a measure file, save and open a configuration, or add
configuration comments, watch our video Configuration Creation.
1. Select the configuration to which you want to add the measure file.
If no configuration is already open, it is created automatically when
adding a measure file.
2. Do one of the following:
If the respective measure file extension was linked to MDA V8
(using Open with in Windows Explorer), just double-click the
desired measure file in your file system.
Drag and drop one or more measure files from your file system
onto the main window of MDA V8.5.
On the Configuration tab of the ribbon, click . Select the
measure files from your file system and click Ok.
In the File Explorer, right-click the configuration name and
select Add Measure File(s). Select the measure files from your
file system and click Ok.
You can add the same measure file only once. Otherwise, a
message is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the
MDA V8.5 window.
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