ETAS MDA V8 - Indication of File Index Status; Exporting and Converting Measure Data

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The original comment or meta information remains in the measure file. It
can be found if the measure file is opened with an editor tool. To delete
completely the original comment or meta information and make it anonym-
ous, perform subsequently an export of the measure data into a new meas-
ure file.
Note that editing is only possible if MDA V8 gets a write access on the file
and only works with MDF3 and MDF4 files. This function does not work for
measure files created with snapshot recording.
3. To store all changes, click Save or press Enter.
4.2.4 Indication of File Index Status
For faster data display when zooming and scrolling in the oscilloscope, a standard
indexed measure file is beneficial.
The standard index is supported for MDF file format V3.3 and V4.x. The indexing
can be set in the INCA user options. For more information, see the
INCAdocumentation.
In the File Explorer of MDA V8, the icon indicates if the measure file format
supports the standard index, but is not yet indexed.
The status of the standard indexing is also listed in the measure file tooltip and
Information window.
4.3 Exporting and Converting Measure Data
V8.6 supports all versions of MDF files. MDF files can be read and written. Export-
ing measure data, i.e. writing a new file, is limited currently to signals having
numeric values and enumerations. You can either export a complete measure file
or a subset of signals.
To see how you can export a measure file for a selection of signals, or how to con-
vert a measure file into a new file format, watch our video Exporting Signals
and Files.
With MDA V8 the additional add-ons MdfCombine.exe and MDFConvert.exe
are delivered. For more information, see "Command Line Tools" on page22.
You can perform the following actions:
"To export measure data" on the next page
"To define the output raster for exported signals" on page41
"To convert measure data into another file format" on page41
"To compress measure files" on page41
"To cancel an export" on page41
"To check the export status" on page41
"To see the exported file in Windows Explorer" on page41
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