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1. Curves Text Gear Shift Force Spektrograrn Layout OGL sea er Next to the list of the loaded layout pages you find the buttons to manage layouts and their variants pel Load a layout file This button loads another layout into the list You cannot add a variant of a layout already loaded If you want to change the variant of a layout use the corresponding function see below If you want to use a variant as a separate layout you have to make a copy of the original first see above o Change a layout variant Select a page in the list and press this button to load another variant of the selected page The textfield below the list shows the file name of the currently loaded variant Te Save layout variante as This function creates new layouts or new layout variants The current state of the selected layout will be stored in a new file with a new filename You can switch between the different variants afterwards New empty layout Pressing this button creates a new completely empty layout a blank page You have to place graphic objects on this page then You will be asked for the name of the new layout The name must be different to already loaded pages obviously m Copy a layout Pressing this button creates a new layout as well Here it will be a copy of the layout selected in the list Ta Remove a layout from the list The selected layout is being removed from the list of loaded pages The current sta
2. Counter ayy Reset to 1 Show Alert messages all in target file left Dialog of the Archive writer right Dialog of the Archive concatenator Please note that both modules can be activated or deactivated independently of one another by setting Write Files or Concatenation is active If you deactivate the writer no archives are generated If you deactivate the concat enator you will get the files which have been created by the writer If the concatenator is active it glues the files the writer created into sorted archives In both dialogs you have to enter a Target Directory This is the directory where the archive files are stored When the concatenator is running the writer generates only temporary files Nevertheless a valid directory must be entered where the writer can store these temporary files It can be the same directory as for the concatenator Furthermore you will need to give a Base name in both dialogs The names of the archives are given by adding further specifications to the base name e g the serial number Archives without concatenator If the concatenator is deactivated there are several options for the files created by the writer Numbered files filenames including the serial number filenames including the time stamp the time when the test was started Check the Numbered Files box in the dialog The files which are then created are named Base name counter number like Trac
3. User Manual for Rotas Archive Evaluation Discom GmbH Gottingen Germany Evaluation File View Window Tools Pages oela ele 8 2 aje aja al Module 4 Eb Evaluate Measurements Measureme n Curves 01 02 04 10 11 Curves 1 2 SKI valuate Measurements List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database O measurements loaded gt gt 0 70 a 10 o pt a a a 100 1m Curves 1 Z SK2 1 70 DK Cancel Apply a si a a a a 100 10 Press F1 for help mmf Contents Archiving Acoustical Measurements 1 Tar oduc omea n E te enter ears ere meen ees nua ten ener ean er me N fag te rer eee ee ee i Organisation and Designation Of Archives ooccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 2 Archive Settings in the Rotas Measurement Program c00ccceeeesseseseseeseeeesssssssssesaas 3 DCIS CHINAS Archive SONO Ss cots ooesd tects E a a ea iat sarees aie etanc 5 Atomatic Presentato Ms e da a A shasta J Store Additional Information in an Archive coccccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 9 Evaluation of acoustical measurements 10 TRS Evaluation PrOe ram erana a a a aa 10 The Presentation s Control Dialog ooonnnnnnncnunnnananananananananonononn non nonononnnonnnnnnn nono non nnnnnnnnnos 11 S SCHON ATC INVE Dt alas 11 NS E A II II oe en ee Pee Cee 13 SECOS LA soci
4. 1 5 51 7 GAn H1 Graphics modules el El Show m A 3D Projektion S 5 5 Gear Shift Force P3 X loth El Platt Option Ed Plot2 Color 0 Plota g Plot4 o E Plot E Plot E 6 Spektrogram Apply E Spektrogramm EJ Kurvenplot In the text field above you see the name of the data object which you currently assign to a graphic object in the figure above it s Curves 1 S SK1 GAn H1 On the left you see the different available graphic objects The objects are ordered by pages layout windows Depending on the type of data measurement curves single values text which you want to assign different selections of graphic objects are offered You see two little help buttons over the tree of graphic modules The right button reduces the tree completely making 1t easier to find a special page The left button re opens the tree You can assign a data entry to more than one graphic object at the same time For this reason you see a list of graphic objects on the right hand side which have currently been assigned to the data object You can also assign different data objects to one graphic object but this is irrelevant concerning the assignment procedure The list on the right shows in brackets the page number first then the name of the graphic object as shown in the list on the left You assign data to a graphic object by clicking on it in the list and pressing the button gt gt after
5. Add Commands to a Macro If you want to add new commands to an existing macro proceed as follows Select the macro in the list and press the button Gl Execute the addional commands as if you were doing a normal macro recording These commands are added at the end of the macro Press Stop W to end the recording Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 34 Editing Macros Rotas Archive Evaluation Macros are stored in a separate file a resource sea which is normally stored in the same folder as the application sea and named Rapports sea You can have several such sea files containg different macros Switch between sea files with the button l You can easily edit a macro with the macro editor Select the macro you want to edit in the list and press The macro editor lists all commands of the macro Edit macro Macro End5pee t 42l l Befehl Objekt Arg2 A Channel Instrum Parameter Show Spektren Layout 6 Plots GSig O 4 7 Up SK1 Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektren 4 7 Up SK1 Spec Show Spektren Layout 6 Plots GSig O 4 pi Down SK1 Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektren 4 7 Down SK1 Spec 3 Show Spektren Layout 6 Plots GSig JO 4 7 Up SK2 Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektren 4 E Up SK2 Spec Show Spektren Layout 6 Plots GSig O 4 i Down SK2 Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektren 4 7 Down SK2 Spec 3 Show Spektren Layout 6 Plots GSig 0 4 r Up Tq Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektre
6. and since a SQL Query can produce a huge amount of measurements easily the method of preselection is used here Select only those measurements in the preselection list whose data you really want to evaluate and press the button Load selected The selected measurements are being loaded and added to the list in the section List With Condense list you can remove all measurements from the preselection list whose data have already been loaded The button Query Assistent opens a dialog which looks like the filter dialog of the section Archive see page 12 and which simplifies the selection of measurements The button SQL Query opens a dialog where you can enter the text of the WHERE part of a SQL Query directly to specify the desired measurements This dialog allows to copy the time span setting form the assistant window instead of entering it in SQL language With the button Database you can control which database the program shall use as data source Section Macro Rotas Archive Evaluation A macro is a recorded sequence of display actions which can be played back like a script That way you can run an automatic script to execute actions which you normally execute manually See the section Macros beginning at page 33 for further details Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 17 Displaying Measurements Rotas Archive Evaluation Open the tab section Data This is the main section to control the creation of gra
7. xj e Automatic Presentation active Window tithe of presentation application Evaluation Rapport WName for current test instruction Gearbox Standard Options te In foreground only when working Always in background Stay in foreground when done Reference measurement Archive file of reference measurement Optional serial number of reference A e Rapport to display reference Manual Test Apply to archive file E RotasDataxTest rchiwebm _Tues Browse cancel First of all you can activate of deactivate the automatic presentation with the check box Automatic Presentation active If you activate automatic presentation make sure that the presentation program is running The measurement program is not capable of starting the presentation program Only a running presentation program can be controlled remotely Enter in Window title of presentation application the name from the title bar of the presentation program The measurement program finds the presentation program using this title Ifno window with this title can be found no automatic presentation will be done and you will get an error message Enter in Macro Name the name of the macro which shall be executed after the archive has been loaded Marcros will be explained in the second part of this manual You can test the remote control function by presseing the button Go Before you do this enter a valid archive file
8. OnTafelWischen Selection of a data entry in the contents tree in order to delete its data from all assigned graphic modules This command is rarely used in macros Mor e you use the corresponding command to delete data from a layout page see below Commands assigning graphics GraphMod OnShowIn or GraphMod OnHinzunehmen This command assigns the data entry which you defined with the command Daten OnGraphAuswahl before to a graphic module The parameter Objekt refers to the instance name of the layout Arg2 refers to the instance name of the graphic module If you want to display the data of a data entry in more than one graphic module at the same time you can execute GraphMod OnHinzunehmen more than once GraphMod OnApply and GraphMod OnOK With these commands the graphic assignmend is ended The parameter Num1 defines the color index which 1s used to display the data OnApply leaves the graphic selection dialog open OnOK closes it Commands for the layout page The following five commands need surely not be described more detailedly Layouts OnForeground M6 PP LOES Layouts OnClose iO dois Layouts OnWipe O ELOtS Layouts On Praia O BLOGS Layouts i OnPrintALl JobTitle As an alternative the german version follows Layouts OnVordergrund TO o PLOCS Layouts OnSchliessen 6 BLoOts Layouts OnWischen o Plots Layouts OnDrucken mo PLOTS Layouts OnAlleDrucken Drucktitel The first command brings the layout page to t
9. a button with an eye in the top right corner of the dialog Pressing this button redraws the data selected in the contents list of the section data see below You will see later what that means and which further function the section list allows Selecting the Columns of the List You can select which columns the list shall display Press the button to open the corresponding settings dialog Column selection E x Select columns to be shown for the list of measurements E Time stamp IY Test result W Serial no Test stand name W Type File name MW Additional Into Operator Additional Info Cancel Select which information shall be included as a column You can also use Additional Information as columns You only have to enter the name of the information as shown in the figure Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 14 Section Data You will find the content list of the measurements in this section You assign data to graphic elements here The section Data allows a wide range of functions which are explained beginning on page 18 Section Graphics Rotas Archive Evaluation The section Graphics holds the list of graphic pages You also select the colors for marking and making prominent here Evaluate Measurements Gear Shift Force Spektrogram marked 2 5 A a sE focussed Limits Layout OGL sea Alea S Choose al s v p
10. defines an optional appendix which is described below Archive RemoveArchive or Archive ArchivEntfernen unloads an archive The paramter Objekt once again defines the file name see above The optional appendix of Archive ArchivLaden can only be entered via the macro editor It can not be recorded If you load an archive with an optional appendix the data from this archive are stored in separate chapters in the contents tree which are marked with the appendix either As a result you can assign graphic objects to these data independantly from data loaded from other archives without this appendix specified You can use this command to load an archive containing a reference measurement and display it with a different color than normal data Furhter commands The following commands are not creatable via recording They must be entered manually with the macro editor Comments You can enter comment lines in the macro Each line beginning with two dashes will be regarded as a comment Jy THe Te a Comment Please note A comment line is still separated into 1ts parameters To be sure that words of your comment are not treated as numerical parameters frame the command with quotation marks as shown in the example above Call Macro Name This command executes another macro defined by the name behind the colon All replacement rules which are valid when that macro is called are used for that macro either You can define addition
11. in the area Manual Test or select it via Browse Make sure that the correct printer has been defined as standard printer for windows Normally you can t use a printer on LPT 1 since the measurement program communicates with the DPM42 signal processor cards via this port Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 8 Store Additional Information in an Archive Rotas Archive Evaluation The content of an archive is mostly automatically defined all evaluatable mesurement data In addition to that start time of the test candidate type serial number test bench ID and evaluation result of the test are stored Furthermore you can store additional informations like for example the name of the test operator All information which is stored in Rotas seas like Application sea Candidate sea Sps sea or Messages sea can be stored in an archive Enable this function by adding a list of the following form to the Rotas Application sea AdditionalArchivelnfos Pruefer Application WheelRName Candidate Every line of the list contains two entries The first one defines the name of a resource in the Rotas sea defined by the second entry In the example shown above a resource named Pruefer in the Application sea and a resource WheelRName in the Candidate sea would be read and their values copied into the archive The presentation can read this information then Resources from the Candidate sea are important since their o
12. of the contents tree and select Display options siehe Further Display Options on page 21 The section Curves defines which information identify the curves in the legend The colors for the curves and the captions are defined within the presentation display See that manual for details You have to open the property dialog of any curve plot and open the tab section Curves xl Position Size Frame Scaling Atach Scaling Anis Labeling Curves Caption Plot type sdr Plot r EE T Line width 0 03 Points 015 feet Color indexes for curves Index Ho Bo haz Mew Change Line width 0 03 forIndex 2 ta 1 You can define the colors in the lower part of that dialog Each color is assigned to an index number The colored display uses index for the first curve index 2 for the second curve etc If you display more curves than color indexes defined the last curves are drawn with color index No 0 Be aware The colored curve display shows all curves of the selected data entry The element Serial Number displays all serial numbers If you don t have a curve for each measurement serial number you may get an inconsistency regarding color and caption So you should make sure that you have as much captions as curves Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 25 Printing Graphics Activate a layout window by clicking on it and select the item File Prin
13. right corner you find the button Mark content Select an entry in the archive list and press Mark content That way all measurements from that archive are marked in the measurement list Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 29 Rotas Archive Evaluation Excluding Measurements You can exclude measurements from the list These measurements become invisible They disappear from the list and the data are not displayed any more Select the menu command Hide marked items to remove the currently selected measurement s from the list including the measurement where you opened the pop up menu The submenu Marks General holds the command Hide marked items You exclude all marked measurements that way In combination with the command Use filter you can easily exclude measurements from the list which fulfil certain criteria e g all measurements from a certain test bench In the same submeu you find the command Undo hide This makes all exluded measurements visible again In contrast to that the menu command Remove from list excludes the corresponding measurements completely from the list If all measurements of a certain archive have been removed the corresponding archive will be removed from the list of loaded archives as well Working with archives edit additional Information The submenu Archive features holds three important additional commands Archive export creates a new archive file from the measurements that ha
14. the list and press the button with the green arrow The selected measurements are marked in the list with the same symbol Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 13 Evaluate Measurements y xX List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database 14 measurements loaded e gt p gt 7 me e e 1311 01 16 06 ERA15 53 2 13 11 01 16 14 ERRO4 153 13 11 01 16 24 ERR0 4153 1311 01 16 40 ERR16 23 4 1311 01 16 45 ERRO4 155 1311 01 16 56 ERRO4153 13 17 01 17 00 ERRO4 153 amp 13 11 01 17 13 13 11 01 1719 ERRO4TSS 13 17 01 17 26 ERRO4TSS 13 11 01 1733 ERRO4 153 131101 17 38 ERRO4 153 13 17 01 17 45 ERRO4 153 21311011750 ERRO4153 OF Cancel Apply You have two colors available to mark measurements In the section List they are distinguished as green and pink The colors used for the graphics can be changed in the section Graphics You make a measurement prominent by pressing the button with the blue ball As expected the measurement is marked in the list with the same symbol You remove a selection marking and making prominent by pressing the corresponding button arrow or ball another time If you double click a measurement in the list this measurement is treated with the same action you carried out last Thus if you used the pink button for marking last the pink marking is used once again In addition to the already mentioned buttons you find
15. this button The graphic will be stored in WMF format You can import these graphics for example in a word document or them send via email Further details about exporting graphic you will find in the manual about the presentation display Excel Export Rotas Archive Evaluation If you want to export the curve data themselves select the corresponding data entry in the contents tree see figure on page 18 and open the context menu You will find the menu item Excel Export there If you select that item you will then be asked for a filename to store the exported data The data will be stored in an excel sheet in the csv Format with the first column containing the positions on the x axis and all other columns containing Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 31 the corresponding values of the curves We encourage to create a separate excel worksheet for further processing In that evaluation sheet you can place additional fields calculations or graphics and copy the exported data from the excel sheet to the evaluation worksheet Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 32 Macros A macro allows to store actions you are executing while using the presentation manually selecting data entries assigning graphics etc and make them repeatable by that A macro 1s recorded and can be played back including additional parameters These actions are controlled in the section Macro of the control d
16. From List Marks General Mark all items Archive Features Invert marking Item origin Markierungen 1 gt 2 ance Hide marked items Undo hide This menu gives access to a wide range of additional functions The menu entry at the bottom Item origin reveals from which archive file the marked measurement has been loaded Marking of Measurements The topmost four menu commands deal with the marking of measurements see Section List on page 13 ff Select Mark this item to mark all currently selected list entries Add to marked items adds more measurements to the currently marked measurements Use filter allows to mark all measurements fulfilling certain requirements e g all measurements of a certain candidate type The possibilities of the filter are the same as those described below Filter Functions for Loading Archive on page 12 With the menu entry Mark no items you can finally erase all markings Further down in the sub menu Marks General see figure you find additional commads for markings Mark all items marks surprise all measurements of the list If you load more archives now the measurements from these archives will not be marked Invert marking removes all markings from the currently marked measurements and marks all currently unmarked measurements Markierungen 1 gt 2 switches all currently green marked measurements to violet marked measurements In the tab section Archive in the bottom
17. In each case the application contains Host Pc as the lowest object entry Click on the small in front of the H symbol to open the list of modules in the container Host Pc Now search for the object Archive measured data among the modules in the Host Pc container and in 1ts submodules You may find it directly in the container Host Otherwise open further lists of submodules click on to search for 1t Most configurations have Archive measured data in the list of modules pertaining to Measurement Data E System Configuration H D Domd2 Master ae Bo Hast Pc H Measurement Data EH n Defect Reports EEH Table of Measurements Hg Measurement Report nem Frint report sea B a Print Report B SML Report 9 ieee DS g Databases H A Rev Speed H E Spectral Limit Curves O a Doubleclick the symbol or the name to open the settings dialog for archiving Rotas Archive Evaluation Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 3 Rotas Archive Evaluation Archive measured data E A xj M Write files Target direct C RotasData Great allvarchives Construct file name trom serial number enumerated and test time senal number test time enumerated Base name Track Counter rrd Reset to 1 Cancel The checkbox Write Files enables or disables the archiving function in gereral Make sure the box is checked if you want to get an archive You can enter th
18. a 15 SECO Graphis AA ada 15 SECHOR DADAS dba I7 SECON AO oaa a A A A iban 17 Displayme Measure me NiS sorser a e iaa 18 Asstoning a praphic Object eimuni Ad 19 Dipl e ed 20 Further Display OPUS a 21 TEA O es 22 Complete the Displar tadas 24 NS ea anaes ate Mince nal A deteemes 24 a te cecelan tweens einen ncaa 26 Mana Layout Pales eee ere Ree ore ee eee erent A Oy ee ne reer ree 26 Hits to Manage Layos tai 2T Names and Instance NM is 28 How to work with the list of measurements oococccnncnnnoononoonanannnannnanonnn nono ono nn non nn nn nn nono nnnnnoos 29 EX i 31 EXPO O aoei ails he ta rede a T AE dat atin aaa 31 EXC ete era ee O 31 MICOS ni 33 Make Macro and Use ias 33 E ACTOS o sie e 35 Rotas Archive Evaluation Contents e i Archiving Acoustical Measurements Introduction Rotas Archive Evaluation The Rotas measurement program gives the opportunity to store test data These data are stored in so called archives in a special file format This file format allows to bundle different measurements and to store multiple single measurements in one archive file The complement of the archiving measurement program is the evaluation program called Presentation Tool This program reads archive files displays and evaluates the content measurement data While the measurement program Rotas can only be started on a PC which is equipped with signal processor cards the presentation tool is applicable on almost any PC The presentat
19. a will get overwritten then Please notice The single comma is the fill in character for an empty parameter text It is not used to separate the single paramters unlike some programming languages do when calling a function Details of Certain Commands General remark Many macro commands exist in an english and a german version If you enter commands manually with the macro editor it is irrelevant which version you use The executed action is the same with both command versions If you record a macro commands are always recorded in the system s language If you use an english Windows system english commands will be recoded if you use a german system german commands will be recorded Show data The most frequent action in a macro 1s displaying data in a graphic object This function is called with the Show command which has the following structure example parameters Show Curves Layout Curves GSigCurvePlot5 0 4 8 1 M Chan N Mon Rotas Archive Evaluation You create a show command when you record a macro It has the following structure in detail Behind the colon you find the chapter from the contents tree holding the requested data The other parameters have the following meaning Objekt Instance name of the Layout Arg2 Instance name of the graphic module to display the data For more details about instance names see Names and Instance Names on page 28 Arg3 Color color Index Numl and Num2
20. al replacement rules for that macro with the parameter object Call MTest Mode 5 N The called macro must be defined in the same macro sea like the calling one Conditional execution Macros are not a programming language Thus they include not all constructs of a real programming language That means for conditional execution If the defined condition is not true the following command will be skipped All Commands for conditional execution start with If or with Wenn The definition of the condition follows If an exclamation mark follows the colon directly the condition is being negated See the examples below If IsEqual Text Text2 or Wenn IstGleich Text Text2 If Textl equals Text2 literally the condition is true and the following command will be executed This command makes only sense when you use it together with replacements If IsEqual Channel SK3 Call SpecReport3 If IsEqual Channel SK3 Call SpecReportl Rotas Archive Evaluation The first two commands have the following function The macro specReport3 is called if and only if Channel has got the value SK3 from a replacement rule The next two commands deal with the other case If Channel has not got the value SK3 Note the in the command the macro gt pecReport1 is called Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 39 If Data or Wenn Daten The following parameters of this command are the same as in the sh
21. ant To evaluate these values proceed as follows Select the data entry of a tracking curve or a spectrum in the contents tree First of all display the data Then do a right click on the data entry to open the pop up menu You will find the menu entry Evaluate there see above Clicking on this menu item opens a dialog where you can select colors for the mean value curve and the curve mean value factor x standard deviation Furthermore you can enter the factor for the formula After that the graphic object displays the mean value curve and the curve mean value factor x standard deviation also Further Display Options Rotas Archive Evaluation Some details of the display can be influenced via several options dialogs You open these dialogs by right clicking on one of the chapter branches of the contents tree Within the pop up menu you will find a menu item Display options instead of Evaluate Selecting this entry opens the dialog with the display options Display options E E xx Curves Protocol values General data Label curves with J Original identifier Data name Time Type J Serial number Test stand Additional information Cancel This dialog has different sections for the different types of data In the section Curves you can select which information is used to form the automatic captions of a curve plot For further details about caption
22. asurement to the corresponding archive Sorting by Type amp Week The concatenator generates sub directories named by calendar weeks see above sorting by weeks In these week directories archives are generated according to Sorting by types see above Sorting by Weekday The concatenator generates seven archives which are named by weekdays Base name Monday rdt Base name Tuesday rdt etc For example all measurements of Wednesday are attached to the archive of Wednesday After a week next Wednesday all previous measurements are deleted and a new archive file is being started This way you will always have the measurements of the last seven days so you don t have to worry about filling up the hard disk and having to delete measurement files All in Target File All measurements are attached to the archive Base name rdt You will get only one probably very large file Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 6 Note If you activate the concatenator no measurements except for the option Weekdays will get lost however you need to prevent accumulation of files by cleaning off your hard drive regularly Further Options The dialog of the archive writer has a button with a balloon icon in the upper right corner If the button is pressed the archiver emits messages about written archives in the window StdOut By selecting the option Show Alert Messages you will get the same function for the file concatenator One side effect of thi
23. bottom of the structure are the data entries You can identify them by the fact that no symbol stands in front of them The basic method for evaluation is simple You assign a data entry from the contents tree to a graphic object e g a curve plot of a presentation window Then you press the button in the top left corner labeled Display Xyz while Xyz is replaced by the name of the current data object which you have selected from the contents tree and the graphic object will display the data Further details of this procedure will be focused in the following paragraphs Erase Xyz removes curves which have been assigned to a graphic object before That way you can clean a evaluation page for a new evaluation Below the buttons you can select additional options Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 18 Assigning a graphic object Before you can see the data of an data entry you have to select which graphic object on which layout window on which graphic page shall display the data Click through the contents tree until you found and selected the data entry you want to display Most of the time the button Display Xyz will stay grayed It gets active only if you activate a data entry in the contents tree which has been assigned to a graphic object or if you have just assigned it to a graphic object Press the button Show Xyz in to open the dialog where you can assign data to graphic objects Assign Graphics ES E x Curves
24. e Target directory where you want the archive files to be stored below Further options of this dialog are explained in the next section Return first to the system tree the dialog can be left open and moved to the side and click on belonging to the item Archive measured data You will see the archive concatenator lal System Konfiguration E O x ES Measurement Data cH Defect Reports ae Table of Measurements Heh Measurement Report pE Print report sea H 8 Frint Report eh H AML Report E Store Measurements Doubleclick the name or the symbol to open the settings dialog Settings options of the archive concatenator are explained in the following section as well Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 4 Selecting Archive Sorting Rotas Archive Evaluation In the setting dialogs of the archive writer and the archive concatenator you set how the final archive files are named and sorted See the section Organisation and Designation of Archivess on page 2 Dateien Kleben Sorting files by week by type f by day week di by type week dir 7 days of week Archive measured data x I rite files Target direct C RotasData Great allarchives Construct file name from Target directory EAR otasD ata Gtr bCollector4archives a serial number o enumerated and test time serial number pecan bw test time enumerated l Last file Base name Track Pasted to
25. e two textboxes on a layout page having the user name Plot Title but behind the scenes their instance names are different Sometimes you need the instance name e g to edit a macro see page 33 You can inquire the property dialog of a module for this name Open the dialog and move the mouse pointer near the button Export on the tab section Position Size Beschrittung Skalierung Euren Legende Grundflache Rahmen Achen Ander W Transparent M Mitverschieben T kein Hintergrund A small info window will pop up revealing the instance name Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 28 How to work with the list of measurements Rotas Archive Evaluation In the tab section List you can open a pop up menu by richt clicking on an entry in the list of the loaded measurements Evaluate Measurements x List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database 14 measurements loaded ig a p gt a p a cy 1311 01 16 06 ERRIS55b32 ERR M0350 13 11 01 16 14 ERRO amp 153 ERA Ms 1311 01 16 24 ERRO4 amp 153 ERA Maso 13 11 01 16 40 ERR16 29 4 ERR M350 13 11 01 16 45 ERRO4153 ERR MQ350 13 11 01 16 56 ERRO4 amp 1S3 ERR M0350 13 11 01 17 00 ERRO4153 ERR Miso 1211 01 17 19 Mark this item 13 11 01 17 26 Add to marked items 13 11 01 17 33 Use Filter 13 11 01 17 38 Mark no items 13 11 01 17 45 1311 01 17 50 Hide item s Remove
26. encode the branch of the contents tree The best way to get the adequate values is by recording a show command Quinter exact position of the data item branch in the tree The Show command is an abbreviation for four separate commands Daten OnGraphAuswahl GraphMod OnHinzunehmen GraphMod OnApply and Daten OnDatenAnzeigen If you record a macro you will see these commands in the macro editor at first Only when the macro is stored the four commands are compated to the Show command If you don t record the exact structure of the four commands e g by pressing GraphMod OnHinzunehmen twice in order to display the data in two graphic modules simultaneously the automatic compaction which creates the show command does not work Data OnOptions or Daten OnOptionen This command sets option of the tab section data Show Limits show only marked etc You get the right values for num1 and num2 by recording this command Data OnGraphSelect or Daten OnGraphAuswahl Selection of a data entry in the contents tree The following commands assing graphic modules to it Normally compacted to the Show command Data OnDisplayData or Daten OnDatenAnzeigen Selection of a data entry in the contents tree in order to display its data This command has the same Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 37 function as the Display button in the tab section data This command is also compacted to the Show command normally Data OnWipeTable or Daten
27. es Lrduate Meawwenments Lat Dala Active Graphics Macro Database Oasannembadd 5 gt DOI ime Tse 0 7 Curves 112 52 Press Fi for help AA Maybe not all windows shown above have been opened or other additional windows have been opened also The different windows have the following functions In the top left corner of the figure you see a window ComPass Modules This 1s the system tree window of the application similar to the system configuration window of the measurement program see Archive Settings in the Rotas Measurement Program on page 3 The large dialog Evaluate Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 10 Measurements on the left hand side is the control window for the presentation You select archive files and measurements to evaluate here On the right hand side you see an example for a presentation window These windows visualize the data The usage of the graphic elements that display data in these windows is described in a separate manual Presentation display If the dialog Evaluate Measurements has not been opened you can open it by doubleclicking the module Messungen Auswerten in the system tree If the system tree has not been opened either you can open it via the menu File New You can open a selection of some presentation windows with toolbar buttons below the menu bar nm 3 lesa aj al Each button opens one presentation window The rightmost button opens all
28. ewise measurements e g same type After pressing OK only the selected measurements will be loaded Remember Measurements which have already been loaded are not displayed in the preselection list Section List Rotas Archive Evaluation In this section every single test cycle from the loaded archives is listed Evaluate Measurements E 2 x List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database 3 gt gt l olm Tine sea Type 78 1311 01 16 06 ERR1I5 532 14 measurements loaded 13 11 01 16 14 1311 01 16 24 13 17 07 16 40 13 11 01 16 45 13 11 01 16 56 13 11 01 17 00 13 11 01 17 13 13 11 01 17 19 13 11 01 17 26 13 11 01 17 33 13 11 01 17 38 13 11 01 17 45 13 11 01 17 50 ERAO4 1553 ERAO4 153 ERAT15 23 4 ERAO4 1553 ERR04 153 ERAO4 153 ERR04 153 ERR04 153 ERR04 153 ERAO4 153 ERR04 153 ERAO4 1553 Cancel tay The list displays the General Information of each test run being Start Time Serial Type and Test Bench You can sort the measurements by clicking on the heading of a category Y ou can mark measurements in this list and you can make a measurement prominent The data curves of marked and prominent measurements will be drawn with different colors There is one difference between marking and making prominent You can mark multiple measurements but only one measurement can be made prominent If you want to mark a measurement select 1t in
29. for print outs You can print a presentation window easily via the menu File Print If you want to create a complete report that way the printed page should contain some general data like type of the tested candidate or serial number The entries in the contents tree for these general data are data entries as well Contents M General Information io E Time ee A Serial number e E Type eat E Test result co EB Test bench EH lt gt Further information EB MM Report texts HD Protocol values You can assign these entries to graphic objects displaying texts in the same way as you assign other data entries to a curve plot If you press Display you will see for example the serial numbers listed in the text field But you can also assign a higher branch of the contents tree e g an item representing a test mode to a text field It will then display the name of the branch e g the name of the test mode If your layout page has a text field to display a heading you can assign the name of the branch to this text field and data entries below that branch to other graphic elements As a result you can fill the whole layout page with data including the heading while doing only one mouse double click on the branch item e g the name of the test mode See the manual of the presentation display for information about how to create new graphic elements on a layout page or how to change position and size of graphic elements Furthermo
30. he front the second one closes it The third one deletes all data from on that page The fourth command prints that page The parameter Object is the name user name of the layout page OnPrintAll prints all open layout pages The parameter obj ect defines the name of the print job This name is normally irrelevant for the printer Only when you use a pseudo printer which produces files e g PDF Writer or Acrobat Distiller the print job defines the name of the file which is created If you enter the special value AutoTitle including brackets the name is built automatically from the serial number and the time stamp of the first measurement from the list The command Layouts DisplayText or Layouts TextAnzeigen fills a text which is defined in the macro into a textbox See the following example Layouts DisplayText Layout 6Plots TextArea0 Measurement in Chan 0 0 The parameter Objekt defines the instance name of the layout Arg2 defines the instance name of the text box Arg3 defines the text Since a text mostly contains spaces it must be framed by quotation marks like in the example above Commands for archives Two commands deal with archives The first one loads an archive the second one un loads it Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 38 Archive LoadArchive or Archive ArchivLaden loads an archive Its parameter Objekt defines the filename including full path of the archive to be loaded Arg2
31. her Remember that you may need to adjust scaling of the graphic module in order to see a graphic To do this open the property dialog of the graphic module with a right click on the graphic module and select Properties from the context menu The tab section Scaling allows to adjust the data interval which is being displayed For further details see the manual about the presentation display Marked measurements On the right side of the tab section Data you can select what to do with the marked measurements of the tab section List If you select display all as display option all measurements are being displayd marked and unmarked as well The marked measurements are drawn in their corresponding color If you select the option only marked the unmarked measurements are excluded from the display If you select the option only unmarked it s vice versa The marked measurements are being excluded Recursively Displaying Measurements In the tab section Data you can find the option display recursively If you enable this option you can display many data with one mouse click Click on a branch anywhere above a data entry in the contents tree for example the entry Curves The display button is now labeled Display Curves If you press the button all data entries below the selected brach in the contents tree are being displayed This operation may take some time Erase data If you have already displayed data in graphic object
32. ialog Evaluate Measurements List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database Enown macros na z ml gt 6 Do not execute print instructions Keep graphics allocations after recording When executing make dialogs invisible e Macro EndS pec The current macro consists of 12 instructions Text replacements IGEAR 32 m e CHAN SK1 Make a Macro and Use lt Rotas Archive Evaluation Proceed as follows to record a macro I Enter a new name in the field below known macros and click on the button New If you want to re record an existing macro this step is skipped Select the name of the new rapport in the list and press Record T If you re record an existing rapport a warning message is being displayed Now execute the actions you want to record Assign graphic modules to data entries and let the data be displayed At he end you can print the corresponding page s from the section graphic see Printing Graphics on page 26 You should also include Erase commands at a suitable moment Return to the section Macro and press Stop M The recording is complete If you select the macro in the list now and press Play gt you can watch how the macro is being processed The macro executes exactly those operations you recorded If you load another archive file and process your macro the new data will be displayed exactly in the same way like tha
33. included in the list of loaded graphic pages That way you can use a layout with two curve plots with six curve plots and one with a large text box at the same time You can make some settings for the graphic objects of a layout page influencing their appearance You can change colors fonts and scaling settings but you can also change the text of titles All changes are saved automatically when you end the presentation program Maybe you want to use a layout with 6 plots in two different scaling contexts The first context uses a scaling of 0 to 100 the other context uses a scaling of 500 to 4500 with a different title You could invent two layouts in the list but this may result in many layouts filling your list As an alternative you can use layout variants Each variant of a layout is stored in a separate file you could create subdirectories where you store all variants of a layout but the program identifies them as variants of the same layout Use the function Change variant to load a different variant for a loaded layout That way your list stays easy to survey The advantage of layout variants compared to two parallel layouts is that graphic assignments remain unchanged If you assigned data e g the spectra of the 1 gear to a graphic object in a layout this assignment works for all variants Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 26 of this layout A disadvantage is that you can only use one variant at the same time
34. inter dialog opens if you press one of the Print buttons This means you can select a printer and make further printer settings If Select printer has been disabled the current standard windows printer will be used without hesitation On the right you define the colors which are used for marked and prominet curves on the grahic pages Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 16 Section Database This section can be made visible or invisible by right clicking the module Evaluate measurements in the system tree and selecting the enrty View SQL page The section Database allows to load measurements from a connected SQL Server database Measurements which have been loaded from a database are added to those loaded directly from archive files in the section List Evaluate Measurements x List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database SOL Quer Data base Quer resulte pre selectiont Time Se al Type Res TB Archive Directories Empty List Condense List Load Selected This section holds its own list similar to that in the section List The list here is meant as a preselection list Via a SQL Query which is either entered directly or constructed using the assistent this list is filled with references to measurements in the database Since the actual load of the measurement data takes some time especially if you load via a network connection
35. ion tool is based on the Discom application Compass Both programs the Rotas measurement program and the Compass program have a modular structure Their functions are carried out by modules which are assembled followed the principle of a construction kit For the Rotas measurement program it means that the function Archiving of measurements is fulfilled by one or two independant modules and not all Rotas applications include this function The presentation itself consists of modules either but here only one module serves the function Read and Evaluate Data Other modules allow to display the data in different graphical figures Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 1 Organisation and Designation of Archives The Rotas archiving function in the measurement program is carried out by two modules One module is the archive writer It collects the measurement data you want to archive and bundles it in an archive file The second module is the concatenator which assembles archive files created by the writer and sorts them according to different criteria Rotas Archive Evaluation Both modules allow a variety of options for archiving measurements Numbered files every single test test cycle gets its own file Files are automatically numbered Test 001 Test 002 etc Serial numbers As for numbered files each test gets its own file but they are named after the serial number of the candidate This
36. ional text parameters Their meaning depend on the command as is with all parameters num1 num2 labeled n1 and n2 in the dialog numerical integer values Mode channel location instrument parameter these five texts form a so called Quinter Every measurement data entry is identified definitely by a Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 35 quinter Thus every command addressing data for display requires a quinter to define the data If you double click on a command in the macro editor or if you create a new command the command edit dialog is opened Rapport Befehl bearbeiten E xl Command Show Spectra Object Layout 3fachPlot Ange Plot O Arg 3 2 Num 1 E Hum 2 7 Mode ae Channel ski Location Instrument Faram Cancel This dialog displays all elements of a command Some parameters are dispensable with certain commands and remain empty then or have the value 0 like with numl and num2 See Details of Certain Commands for further information about different macro commands and their parameters Macros in the Sea You can open and edit the macro sea with any text editor e g notepad It consists of a resource list Rapports at the beginning containing all valid macros of this macro file Each line in the list defines one macro Each line consists of two entries The user name of the macro and the internal name of the macro The internal name is created by rep
37. irst one containing the label the second one containing the value In this section of the dialog there 1s also an option controlling the form of output for Report texts long report text short report text defect report If you select Display all together the report texts of all measurements are written in one text field one after the other If this option is disabled you only see the text of the prominent the first measurement The Active Item If you click on an item in the contents tree of the tab section Data e g to display data this item is marked with a small symbol in form of an eye in front of it This is the marking for the active item 1 5 B SKI E G n H2 a SKA Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 22 The name of this item is copied to the buttons Display Xyz Show Xyz in and Erase Xyz at the place of Xyz The program remebers this active item as far as possible If you click the eye button in the tab section List or change the selection in the list etc the active item and all its sub 1tems are displayed anew If you mark entries of the list and no curve in the display changes its color check whether the right item of the contents tree has been selected as active item Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 23 Complete the Display The presentation windows represent one printer page The presentation display has been designed and optimized
38. k 0001 rdt Track 0002 rdt Track 0003 rdt etc The numbers are 4 digit that means after 10 000 measurements the new ones will overwrite the previous ones using the same name Counter displays the number which assigns the next or current test run Reset counting to 0001 with the button Reset to 1 As an alternative or in addition to a number the serial number and or the time stamp can be included in the filename If you want to use the serial number the Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 5 Rotas Archive Evaluation test bench control of the measurement program must have access to a serial number In general the test bench transfers a serial number to the Rotas measurement program before finishing the test cycle If you want you can add the time stamp to the serial number the time when the test was started If you do so repeated measurements of the same candidate result in different filenames For example a test of a candidate with the serial number AB678 at 11 57 will result in a file name aB678 11 57 rdt Actually the filename contains a detailed time stamp including year month day hour minute second If you don t have access to a serial number you can also use the basename and the time stamp alone Please note that you will continuously get new files when you name with serial numbers or time stamp and that previous measurements will never be overwritten Thus different to numbered files where the maximum archi
39. lacing all special characters like P or by numerical codes Each name defines a resource list containing the macro commands and the entries Name Status and Name Optionen The resource list contains the commands in the same form as they are displayed in the window of the macro editor see figure above One line defines one com mand beginning with the command itself followed by the parameters Unused empty parameters within the parameter list are indicated by a comma They can be skipped at the end of a command Layouts OnWipe Curves 0 0 Data OnOptions p y 3 U Show Curves Layout Curves GSigCurvePlot5 0 4 8 1 M Chan N Mon Show Curves Layout Curves GSigCurvePlot6 0 4 8 1 M Chan M Mon Show General Information Layout Curves BottomText0 0 3 5 Dies ist ein Kommentar 0 0 Call MTest Mode 5 N 0 O Layouts DisplayText Layout Curves TextArea0 Channel Chan 0 O Parameter Values and Commands containing spaces must be framed by quotation marks e g like in Show General Data in line 5 or Channel Chan in the last line You can obviously edit a macro by editing the command list in the macro sea But you can carry out such actions only when the presentation program is not running since the presentation program stores its memory copy of the macro Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 36 sea when you end the program All manual changes in the macro se
40. n 4 Fi Up Tq Spec Show Spektren Layout 6_Plots GSig 0 4 7 Down Tq Spec Data OnDisplayD ata Spektren 4 i Down Tq Spec Edit command Delete New Duplicate Replace text Select a command Use the arrow buttons above the list to move the command one position to the top or to the bottom The buttons with the double arrows move the command to the top or to the end of the list 4 The buttons below the list allow to edit commands You can change a com mand delete it insert a new command or copy an existing command Further more you can replace text with the button Replace Text Be aware that the text replacement is done for the whole macro and not for the selected com mand only The Structure of a Macro Command As you can guess from the editor dialor a macro command consists of the following elemts Command the command itself In general a colon separates the general part from the particular part of the command For example The command Layouts OnWipe shows that this command generally deals with layouts and in particular wipes a page Object This is the main parameter of the command The object of the command Layouts OnWipe for example is the Instance Name of the Layout Page which shall be wiped The parameter Objekt 1s a text parameter Commands which require numerical parameters use the command elements num1 and num2 see below Arg2 Arg3 The parameteres are addit
41. n front of the entry like with Pruefer in the figure Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 30 Basically there are two possible ways to change data Either in place or by making a copy of the archive In place means that the change will be done in the current archive file This is obly possible when you change an entry to a shorter or at most as long value For example you could change an entry of 114 to 115 but not to 1145 If you want to add characters to an entry you must do this in a copy of the archive In the top right corner below Mode switch to archive copy In an archive copy you can add new entries further additional information either If you leave the dialog by clicking OK you will be asked for the name of the archive copy to store the data Exporting Data There are two possibilities to export data from the evaluation program You can export the presentation graphics as a graphic or the curve data in excel format Exporting Graphics If you want to export a graphic double click on the graphic object that you want to export The property dialog of the graphic module will be opened Beschrittung Skalierung Kuren Legende Grundfl che Rahmen Achsen Farbe Ander M Transparent M Mitverschieben T kein Hintergrund Abbrechen libetnetmen In the tab section Position Size of this dialog you find the button Export Execute the graphic export by pressing
42. option naturally implies that the measurement program currently knows serial numbers Several measurements per file As for numbered files but here each file contains e g 20 test runs and not only one Files are sorted according to Type Day Calendar Week The archive concatenator generates 1ts own archive on the basis of the above mentioned criteria and assigns every measurement to the corresponding file That way all measurements of e g the same type can be bundled together Week Days The archive concatenator generates an archive for each week day Monday Tuesday After a week the file from the previous week is deleted and a new one is created Archive names depend on the selected archiving and sorting method All measurement archives have the same file extension rat 99 Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 2 Archive Settings in the Rotas Measurement Program If you want to make settings for archives open the window System Configuration first It is normally covered by measurement display windows If it has not been opened go via the menu File New You will see a window like that pr z q H EJ Doma stave 1 a EJ Domd Master H El Host Po This window shows the module configuration of the Rotas application The modules are organized in a tree the so called system tree The module configuration and the system tree content differ between applications depend on the real test application
43. or executing a macro all existing graphic assignments are removed at first Then the assignments of the macro are recorded or made when you process a macro At the end these assignments are removed and the previously defined assignments re installed If you do not want the assignments made by the macro be removed enable Keep graphics allocations after recording You can continue to work with the assignments then When executing a macro errors can occur for example if a requested data entry is not present in the loaded archive Think of a test bench where gearboxes are tested which can have either 5 or 6 gears Your macro is designed to display all 6 gears when measured Error messages naturally occur when you measured a gearbox having only 5 gears Since these error messages are normally displayed in message dialogs they can be annoying in the context explained above Activate the check box Do not display error message boxes to disable dialog messages Still the error messages are reported in the Stdout window As mentioned above all actions which have been carried out when recording the macro are executed when processing it This includes selecting entries in the contents tree and in the graphic assignment dialog pressing buttons and similar actions These actions which are originally designed for manual usage take much time when processed in a macro Enable When executing make dialogs invisible to save skip these actions and save time
44. ow command The condition is true when the defined data entry of the contents tree actually contains data RE Data Spektra 0 4 3 2 Chan Call SpecReport3 These commands execute SpecReport3 only if the requested data entry contains data The easiest way to get the parameter list of this command is by recording the following action in a temporary macro Select the requested data entry in the contents tree and press Show in Then stop the recording without assigning a graphic module The macro now contains a Data OnGraphSelect command having the desired parameter list You can rename it to If Data replace parameters by replacement rules if necessary and finally copy it to the macro where you need it Further Tricks After having executed a macro you probably want to have measurements marked in the dialog section List or want to execute similar operations where it is relevant which item in the contents tree is currently active see The Active Item on page 22 You can set an item as the active item with the following two commands added at the end of the macro e g with the macro editor In the example the item Curves is set active Data OnGraphSelect Y Curves 2 21 GraphMod OnOK As usual it is easier to create these commands by recording them in a temporary macro Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 40
45. phics and evaluations Evaluate Measurements E x List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database show G n HT in wet Display GAn HT 7 Erase GAnH1 a Al Test bench i Ed Further information Eh N Report tests E O Protocol values E M Curves Contents Display options f Show all Show only marked Show only unmarked a IY Recursive display Carcel tom The tree structur e on the left hand side is the contents of the data The data are ordered in different main sections the first level of the hierarchy like the chapters of a book You will always find the chapter General Information It contains general informations about the measurement You have already seen this information in the section List Whether there are other chapters depend on the presence of other data in the archive file The chapter Curves for example contains order or other value tracks over speed The chapter Report Values contains single values which are measured and evaluated seperately And the chapter Report texts contains the texts which the measurement program had been generating including defect data if a defect had been found Within each chapter you normally find other subchapters which arrange the data for exaple respecting test modes gears ramps and processing channels Click on the symbol in front of an entry to open the subchapters At the
46. re you find more detailed information about the usage of a curve plot and of other graphic objects Colored Curves If you want to compare data of different measurements it is helpful to display different curves with different colors 0014 0024 0034 0038 0040 0040 0 30 60 90 120 150 180 210 240 Ord For the display shown in the figure above you need a curve plot and a legend module See the manual of the presentation display for information about how to create these graphic objects Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 24 Now select the data entry holding the curves for the colored curves see Displaying Measurements on page 18 Open the dialog to assign the graphic object see Assigning a graphic object on Page 19 Enter in the dialog Assigning graphics the value 1 as color option That way you define that the curves of this data entry shall not get the same color but each one shall get a different color Display the contents of this data entry see Displaying data on page 20 and see the result You still need the colored captions to identify the curves Double click on the curve plot to open its property dialog Open the tab section Captions and refer to the manual of the presentation display to connect the curve plot with the text legend The text legend displays only the names of the curves at first Open the context menu of one of the chapter branches
47. rigin can be the parameter database The archive writer allows to display the actual values of the additional archive informations Right click on the archive writer module to open its context menu Select Archive contents E Que Print report sea H Print Report EH XML Report Archive measured data H E System Settings E Databases HH LA Rev Speed The archive contents dialog opens You see the components of the archive in the upper part They reappear as chapters in the content list of the archive later Inhalt der Archive Mee xj Komponenten E additional Data E Berichtstexte 8 Kurven g MePkurven E Protokollwerte Komponenten werden durch Doppelklick aktiviert und deaktiviert Zus tzliche Informationen Resource Origin EN OperatorN ame Application ABC In the lower part the additional archive informations are listed If you open this dialog after a measurement has been made you can see the current values as well Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 9 Evaluation of acoustical measurements The Evaluation Program Rotas Archive Evaluation In general the evaluation program is named Presentation Tool and you find it in a subdirectory of C RotasData or in a subdirectory of the current measurement application Some systems provide a desktop link to open the presentation program If you start the presentation you may see the following figure pala Measurement Curv
48. rinter Carcel eoi On the left you see the list of the available graphic pages or layouts Double click on an entry to open the corresponding page or get it to the front Each layout is stored in a separate file This file contains information where on the layout each graphic element has been placed including page headings or logo graphics The contents the data of the graphic elements is not stored in this layout file but is assigned to at runtime In the text field below the list the current file name is being displayed You can manage the layout pages with the buttons right of the list The topmost button loads another layout into the list Further details about the management of layouts can be found in Managing Layout Pages on page 26 The buttons below the list hold the following functions a TO the front The layout page selected in the list will be brought to the front If 1t has not been opened 1t will be opened Wipe page All data measurement curves etc in the graphic elements of the selected page will be wiped out Print page The selected page will be sent to the printer assuming automatic printing is enabled for this page see Printing Graphics on page 26 Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 15 Print all pages All open layout pages will be sent to the printer at once Select printer If this checkbox has been checked the usual windows pr
49. s see the manual of the presentation display The Original identifier is the name of the curve which has been stored in the data Data name refers to the name of the branch in the contents tree Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 21 The section Report values holds the options for the display of single report values Curves Protocol values General data When displaying in a test field show e Males W Humber Digits after raken E ect J Limits e Head of table I Positions IY Mia Sd bs 2 When displaying in a table bar chart i Value of a measurement dean value of all measurements When displaying as curves Create time series Create distribution A text field can display the values limit values etc of all measurements in the list You can select which entries are being displayed with a set of check boxes A bar graph can display a single value only This can either be the value of the prominent measurement in the List or the one of the first measurement if no selection has been made or the mean value of all measurements For the display of General data you can choose whether to have a leading label e g the word Serial for each entry in the output Curves Protocol values General data Display in text field Toon top of oneanother Report texts Display all together If you order the labels you can have them written on top of one another The result are two rows the f
50. s you surely want to erase them first before displaying new data If you want to do this select the data entry in the contents tree or a branch above that entry and press the button Erase Xyz where Xyz replaces the current name of the data entry or branch That way all curves in the graphics are being removed The Pop Up Menu of the Contents Tree If you click on a branch in the contents tree with the right mouse button a pop up menu opens Display Wipe Display in Evaluate Excel Export Data Information Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 20 The first three entries Display Erase and Show in have the same function as the three buttons mentioned above The function Evaluate is being explained in the next chapter The button Excel Export writes the data of that branch to a file The file has a format which can be read by the Excel program csv Format Data Information shows you how many data entries are below that branch how many curves etc you get when you show the data of that branch Displaying Limit Value and Mean Value The limit value that has been valid for evaluation in the measurement program is being stored in the archive files too If you enable the option Show limits the limits in particular those of tracking curves and spectra are being displayed as well If you focus on the distibution of tracking curves and spectra the mean value and the standard deviation is also relev
51. s option is that when an error is encountered like a write protected file a dialog opens which interrupts the Rotas program This dialog is closed by clicking OK You should activate Show Alert Messages only if you are working in the vicinity The concatenator s activities are visible in the fields Last File and Pasted to If the concatenator is deactivated and you want to sort previous measurements now go via the Manual button Automatic Presentation You can remotely control the presentation program which 1s described in the rest of the handbook from within the Rotas measurement program In this case at the end of each measurement cycle the presentation program will be ordered to load the archive file containing the previous test cycle display the containing data in a way which you have preselected and send it to the printer The exact moment of this function is after the writer has written the archive file and before the concatenator glues it You will find the module Presentation Remote Control controlling this function as submodule of the archive writer and sibling module of the concatenator E o Protokall verwalkung de Fehler Berichte A oe i Berlchtsausdruck gt fy Messungen Archivieren T H Ablaufsteuer Container You make the necessary settings in the setting dialog of this module Rotas Archive Evaluation Archiving Acoustical Measurements e 7 Rotas Archive Evaluation Automatic Presentation E
52. t from the application menu The normal printer dialog opens and you can send the layout page to a printer as usual As an alternative you can click with the right mouse button on a layout window and select Print window from the context menu The printer dialog opens as well For the other ways to a piece of printed paper you have to define a standard printer If you have not defined a standard printer for the application via the menu File Printer Setup the standard windows printer is used Open the tab section Graphics select the page you want to print and press the button Print page Then this page is sent to the standard printer but only if you enabaled automatic printing for this layout page You can do this via the context menu of the layout page by activating the item print automatically If you have created a macro including a print command you have to ensure automatic printing either Then the page is sent to the standard printer as well Managing Layout Pages Rotas Archive Evaluation The tab section graphics of the control dialog shows the list of the currently loaded graphic pages or layouts A layout holds all information about the the graphic objects E g curve plots titles or company symbols of a print page especially their position and their hierarchy Some of these objects are filled with data later others remain unchanged You can use a number of layouts at the same time All these layouts are
53. t for in test step Spectragrams r wL carce Enter here which measurements you want to load In the figure shown above only measurements of candidates of the type ABC will be loaded where an additional information OperatorName exists and has the value Charly and which contain spectrograms in test section VL Leave those fields blank where you don t want to make a selection like the serial number and the test bench in the figure and disable the check in front of time if you don t want to use this criterium Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 12 From now on only those measurements will be loaded from the archives which match the filter criteria above until you disable the control box Filter or change the filter criteria The criterium Minimum archive size is used anytime even if you have disabled the filter For this reason you find it on the Archive page directly If you want to disable the minimum file size check set the value to 0 Load Preselection Press the button 7 You get the normal file select dialog first where you can select one or more archives But these archive files will not be loaded and analysed automatically Instead you will see a list of all measurements in that archive similar to the list in the section List In this list select the measure ments you want to load by mouse click You can sort it by clicking the column headings to simplify the selection of lik
54. t with which you recorded the macro Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 33 Rotas Archive Evaluation Using Replacement Rules In the lower part you can define replacement rules for the macro commands That way you use a macro which you recorded for SK1 for SK2 as well Enter the replacement rules in the form oldTextl newText1 oldText2 newTextz2 Everything left of a sign of equality is being replaced by that standing on the right Avoid spaces except you want them to be part of the replacement text You can use several fields to enter replacement rules Each field can contain several replacements You can enable or disable the four fields and the rules defined within by clicking the control boxes You normally use the replacement rules as follows After recording a macro either manually or using the macro editor see below replace all actual references e g referencing the test bench by a symbolic name maybe TestBench That way the modified macro is not usable any more without replacement rules But afterwards the replacement rules have a readable form TestBench MyTestBench Options when Processing a Macro During the recording or the processing of a macro you may not want that pages are being sent to a printer If you enable the check box Do not execute print instructions nothing will be printed Nevertheless the commands will be recorded during record but not executed If you start recording
55. te of the graphic objects will be stored Hints to Manage Layouts Rotas Archive Evaluation Classify layout files If you create multiple variants of the same layout you should store all these files in a single subdirectory You can rearrange the files later still Nevertheless a file which is currently used by the program a loaded layout cannot be moved Make a variant to an independent parallel layout You have two variants of a layout and want to use them simultaneously from now on That means that you want to fill them both with data at the same time Then load one variant make a copy then change to the other variant Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 27 Management of layouts in a macro You can only record the command Change layout variant in a macro Naturally the commands activate layout erase page and print page are available for macros as well Names and Instance Names Each layout and each graphic module within a layout has a name You see these names for example in the layout list of the tab section Graphic or in the dialog where you assign a graphic The names are called User names since they are meant to be shown to the user But each layout and each graphic module has a hidden real name the so called instance name This name is used internally by the presentation program because it is guaranteed that this name is unique within a layout page You can have for exampl
56. the same time It is harmless to open an archive while the concatenator of the measurement program adds data to it Only the new data won t be added to the list automatically Press Re read to update the list If you select an archive file and click Mark content the corresponding measurements will be marked in the section List see below If you activate the option Automatically reread archives at next program start all archives which have been loaded when closing the presentation program will be re loaded and analysed immediately on start of the presentation program Filter Functions for Loading Archives If you have archives or folders containing many measurements you may not want to load all data every time since the analyzing process on load takes some time Thus you have the opportunity to use a filter and load only the measurements you want to evaluate You can either define a filter which is used automatically on load of every archive file or use the function Load Preselection see below Defining a global filter is done by activating the check box Filter next to the button Y which you have to press next You see the filter dialog Define Measurement Filter E X only this type ABC only this serial only this bench test rezult arbitrary z time from 16 05 2004 08 15 51 E EN a 08 15 51 t 17 05 2004 Additional Information Operator ame Charly Data presen
57. ve been selected in the list That way you can extract certain single measurements from a large archive or assemble selected measurements into one package Remove from archive s removes the selected measurement s from the archive files The data of deleted measurements are gone forever in contrast to the menu command Remove from list which removes measurements from the list only but not from the archive files Removing a measurement from an archive does not make the archive smaller immediately the archive file contains holes instead Select the corresponding archive file in the section Archive and press Cleanup to reduce the archive to the data left The command Edit Additional infos allows to edit the aditional information section of the selected measurement Clicking on the menu command opens an edit dialog Edit Additional Information E X Mode in place Shevengeraeten unknown af Prueter Tester Messverahrean Tein 0 9 Sottwarestand Ladernummer archive copy A 00000 Motornammer 114 New entry Pruefverahren AGUAA MOT E Presseranbar nein an d Motomummer Cancel This dialog lists all additional information stored for the selected measurement If you click on an entry in the list it appears in the text field below like the Motornummer 114 in the figure You can change the value here 1 14 there After a change a marking apperas in the list i
58. ve number is 10000 In this way you will never loose measurements but you have to be careful that the PC hard drive does not fill up Archives with Concatenator The concatenator s task is to sort the single archive files created by the writer and add them to larger archive files For example if you have the concatenator sort by type it will produce one archive for each candidate type which contains all measurements of candidates having that type The concatenator offers the following sorting methods Sorting by Week Archives are named by calender weeks like Base name Week number like Archive 13 rat for the 13 calender week All tests which have been carried out within one week are attached to the week file After a year all measurements are added to the first file so that old archives are not overwritten Note As per calender week no is the first week of the year that begins with a Monday The days before are officially part of week 53 of the previous year However the concatenator will count these days as week 0 Sorting by Day Similar to weeks but names are given by days in a year For example all measurements of April 24 are filed in Base name 114 rat or 115 in leap years Here again after a year measurements are added to the file of the previous year Sorting by Type Measurements are sorted by candidate types The concatenator generates file names like Base name Type designation rdt and attaches each me
59. wards Alternatively you can also make a double click on the module in the list If you want to remove an assignment select the object in the list on the right and press the red X In case of measurement curves and bar graphs you can also assign a color index for the curves bars in the bottom right area Option Each color index stands for a curve color You find further information about curve colors in the manual about the presentation display If you select color index 0 as shown above the color of the curves depend on the color you selected for a normal marked or prominent measurement in the tab section Graphics If you select a different color index this color is used disregarding marking or making prominent Rotas Archive Evaluation Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 19 Displaying data Rotas Archive Evaluation After you assigned a data entry to one or more graphic objects you can display its data by pressing Display Xyz The name of the button always shows for which data entry the action is carried out You can alternatively doubleclick on the entry in the contents tree instead of pressing the button Display Xyz If no graphic object has been assigned to this data entry the dialog where you can assign a graphic object will open automatically see chapter above Furthermore you can right click on an object in the contents tree A context menu opens which contains the function Display and Show in eit
60. windows The Presentation s Control Dialog The control dialog contains several sections which deal with different tasks for displaying and evaluating measurements Section Archive Rotas Archive Evaluation In the section Archive you deal with the archive files The presentation allows to work with more than one archive file at the same time Evaluate Measurements E xj List Data Archive Graphics Macro Database Archives whose data are loaded C AotasD ata T estwarchivesSM_ Monday re C RotasD ata T esthArchiveSM_Tuesday n _ lt _X Ga _ XX lt M Fite F Minimum archive size 10 kB Cleanup Re read 4 gt Mark content T Automatically reread archives at next program start Click on to load one archive file The content of the archive file 1s being analysed during load This can take some time especially with large archives You will see a progress bar The button lt Q allows to load all archive files in a folder with one mouse click If you want to unload an archive select it in the list and click the button The button XX unloads all loaded archives Evaluation of acoustical measurements e 11 Rotas Archive Evaluation You can delete single measurements from archives using the list of measurements in the section List see below After doing this you should use the button Cleanup to reorder the archive file It will be removed from the list at

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