HEIDENHAIN PWM 20 - Manual (Page 78)

November 2014 Software description 79
Load encoder
configuration
from a file 8 When you click this button, the "Open file" box is displayed. Similar to the
Windows Explorer you can, e.g. search for and open backup files.
Only files with the extensions *.edf and *.ecf can be read.
Save encoder
configuration
to a file 8 This button serves to save the current encoder configuration on your computer.
First, the data needs to be transferred from the encoder to the computer; see
next step.
When the "Save file" window is displayed you can create a new folder to save
the encoder configuration data (backup) on your computer. The data are stored
as x.ecf or x.edf files.