Measurement Computing DASYLab User Manual - Manual (Page 71)

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Tips and Tricks
The following tips and tricks are designed to help you create and process
worksheets:
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Order the modules on the screen neatly.
• Create short connections between the modules and avoid superfluous
channel branches and channel crossings so that you can follow the data
flow in the worksheet.
• Try to keep all channels that go from one module to the next parallel or
bundled.
• Include as many channels as possible in a single display module. A
status display module with 16 data channels requires less computing
power than 16 individual status display modules.
• Label your modules so that others can easily understand the functions
and tasks of the modules.
• Save the development steps of your worksheets in files with successive
names. This allows you to go back to a previous development step.
• Use black boxes to store tested subsets of the worksheet. This creates a
library of functions that you can re-use in other worksheets.
• If you work with many black box modules, configure each with a
different background color. For example, choose darker colors the
deeper the black box lies in the worksheet.
Troubleshooting
The following section deals with frequently asked questions:
A worksheet is not loaded
I cannot load a worksheet I saved earlier. I am using the same hardware, but
DASYLab reports that this worksheet does not match the installed hardware.