Lincoln Electric IM649 Wave Designer - Manual (Page 25)

Section 3 3-13
SOFTWARE OPERATION
WAVE DESIGNER
2. Select a blank Mode or a defined Mode for overwrite by clicking on a box to the left of the
Modes listing. When the Mode is selected, a checkmark appears in the Mode box.
3. Enter the file name of the desired waveform in the box to the right of the selected Mode
number. Click on the Choose button to find the exact name of the weld file(s) you wish to
download. Click on the weld file name to select the file for download.
4. Use steps 2 and 3 to assign up to ten new file names to the weld Modes list. If a good weld
file was already stored in the welding machine’s memory, you must re-enter the name of the
stored weld file to download it to the welding machine.
5. Click on one of the three “Merge your files into:” options. Select the desired option per the
following descriptions.
a. Bundled factory default — Merges selected files with factory default files for download.
b. Last uploaded files — Merges selected files with weld mode directory last uploaded
from a welding machine. Overwrites modes 155 through 164 if like mode I.D.
number(s) are assigned to selected file(s).
c. Newly uploaded files — Merges selected files with directory of connected welding
machine. Overwrites modes 155 through 164 if like I.D. number(s) are assigned to
selected file(s).
6. Click on the button at the bottom of the screen to download the selected
files to the welding machine’s Weld Mode Directory.
3.5 AUTOSAVE
When working in
Wave Designer, the autosave function will automatically back up the waveform
in a file called ‘backup.swf’ every 5 minutes. In case of a program or computer glitch, exit and
restart the program, open the ‘backup.swf’ file, and use the Save As ... file menu option to save
the backup file under a different file name. When you modify a waveform, but fail to manually
save it, the waveform title will change to ‘Wave Designer Pro – xxx.swf [modified]’, thereby
indicating that the waveform has not been manually saved.