Printing the displayed data – Yokogawa PC-Based MX100 User Manual

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Printing the Displayed Data

To print waveforms, open the waveform display window; to print numeric values, open
the numeric display window. If multiple windows are open, click the window that you wish
to print. To print values read by the cursors or statistical computation over an area, open
those windows also.
After selecting the object to be printed, choose

Print Setting from the File menu. In the

Print Setting dialog box, set

Range, Color, and Print Groups, and then click OK. Then,

choose

Print from the File menu to execute the printing. When printing numeric values,

you only need to set the range.

Enter the comment to be printed

Switch to settings for numeric values

Select the groups when Selected

Groups is selected

Click to open the group selection dialog box

Select monochrome or color print

Select the group to be printed

Select to print all or print only the range specified by cursors

Converting the Format of the Recorded Measured Data

Conversion can be made into the following formats.

ASCII

Text data with each data point separated by a comma. The extension is .txt.

Excel

Data that can be opened using Microsoft’s spreadsheet application Excel version 8.0

(Excel 97) or later. The extension is .xls.

Lotus

Data that can be opened using IBM’s Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application version 2.0

or later. The extension is .wj2.

From the

Convert menu, choose To ASCII, To Excel, or To Lotus. Then, convert the

data using the dialog box that opens (see the figure below). There is a limitation in the
number of data points that can be handled in the Excel conversion or Lotus conversion.
Before executing the conversion, set the channels/groups to be converted, the
conversion range, and the step so that the number of data points is appropriate.

Enter the range of group numbers to be converted

Select whether to set the range to

be converted using groups or

channels

Select the range of channels to be

converted

Click to open the selection dialog box.

Select the measurement interval

Only the channels with the selected

measurement interval are converted
Enter the data range to be converted

Can be specified using cursors before

opening this dialog box

Displays the time of the specified data

When changing the save destination or file name

Click to open the save destination and file name setup dialog box.

Step when saving data at certain

intervals

Displays the save destination and

file name

Operations of the MX100 Standard Software

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