User Options for Measurements: General Tab
To go to this tab, click the User Options
button and select the Experiment tab. On the Experiment tab, double-click in the
Value field of the Measure option, then select the General tab.
You can make the following settings:
Resource threshold
Defines the value at which the capacity of the system is considered reached (between 20% and 30%). If this value is exceeded, a warning is indicated.
Changes in this setting become valid when opening an experiment the next time; an open experiment must be closed and reopened for the option to become valid.
Oscilloscope type for new experiments
Defines whether new experiments or VUIs will support the old oscilloscope types or the new YT and XY Oscilloscopes that were introduced with INCA V7.1. The main advantages of the new oscilloscopes are better performance, the ability to display more variables in a single oscilloscope and the ability to include more oscilloscopes within a single experiment.
Note
Within one experiment, only one type of oscilloscopes can be used. However, you can have different experiments in your database where some contain oscilloscopes of the new type and others of the old type.
YT and XY Oscilloscopes introduced with V7.1
New experiments will only use YT and XY Oscilloscopes of the new type.
Note
If one of the old instrument types (with the suffix "Outdated") is selected in the user options as default measure window, a YT oscilloscope or XY oscilloscope of the new type will be created instead if this option setting is selected.
It is not possible to use oscilloscopes of this type in previous INCA versions. Therefore you should only use this option if you do not exchange experiments with colleagues using INCA V7.0 or lower.
"Old" Oscilloscope types from previous INCA versions
New experiments will only use oscilloscopes of the old type (oscilloscopes and plotters with the suffix "Outdated").
Note
If one of the new instrument types is selected in the user options as default measure window, a YT oscilloscope or XY oscilloscope of the old type will be created instead if this option setting is selected.
Oscilloscopes of this type will no longer be supported by INCA V8.0 and higher.
Hex. view
Defines whether the measurements are to be displayed in hexadecimal format.
This setting is applied as default value to all newly selected measure variables; the setting has no influence on already selected measure variables.
Measure window
Defines which display instrument will be used by default for measure variables (e.g. a YT Oscilloscope).
Selects the MDF file format.
This setting can only be changed when there is no open experiment. The changed setting becomes valid after opening the experiment.
Determines whether measure files will be written in compressed format.
Data compression reduces the size of the recorded measure files without data loss; however, it may lead to reduced performance when writing measure data to file.
This setting can only be changed when there is no open experiment. The changed setting becomes valid after opening the experiment.
Note
Data compression is only supported for MDF 4.1 (or later).
Measure files with data compression may not be supported by all 3rd party tools.
To improve the performance when reading measure files in MDA or a 3rd party tool, it is possible to optimize the files by means of indexing. The index will be written after the data is collected and added to the measure file; it has no impact on the actual measure data in the file.
No
INCA will not index recorded measure data.
ETAS
At the end of each recording, INCA adds an index to the measure file. Use the ETAS index in combination with MDA V7 only.
ETAS indexing is supported for MDF V3.0 or higher.
Standard
At the end of each recording, INCA adds an standard index to the measure file .
Use the Standard index for MDA V8 and for 3rd party tools.
Standard indexing is supported for MDF V3.3 or higher.
Note
If the selected measure format does not support indexing, the indexing procedure will be skipped.
Write GROUPs/FUNCTIONs to measure file
Defines whether Groups and Functions information is written into the measure file (MDF). To be able to write the information, the Groups and Functions information must be available in the A2L file. This option is supported only for measure files in MDF V4 format or higher.
Cycle time
Defines the refresh cycle time for updating the display in measure windows (between 20 ms and 500 ms).
Changes in this setting become valid when opening an experiment the next time; an open experiment must be closed and reopened for the option to become valid.
Pause time [ms] for paused measurement
Defines the pause duration for stopped measurements (Min. 10 ms; Max. 10000 ms).
Changes in this setting become valid when opening an experiment the next time; an open experiment must be closed and reopened for the option to become valid.
Enable multiple rasters
Defines whether multiple rasters are allowed for a control unit.
Enable Rec. of calculated signals
Specifies that values of all computed signals are to be written to a measurement file.
This setting is applied as default value to all newly selected calculated signals.
Enable measurement of calibrations
Defines whether virtual measure variables which represent the operating points of the calibration variables as measurements are to be created for control units. This allows for measuring and recording the changes of the calibration variables along with the measure variables in the same raster.
Changes in this setting become valid when opening an experiment the next time; an open experiment must be closed and reopened for the option to become valid.
Yes
In the variables selection dialog, a virtual measure variable is additionally created for every calibration variable; the name of the virtual variable is built from the name of the original variable plus the suffix .Output.
The variables are identified by the symbol
. They can be added to all available measurement windows and are handled the same way as other measurement variables.No
Only measurement variables in the actual sense are available for measurement (default behavior).
Measured calibration variables being already part of an experiment will be removed when switching the option to No and opening the experiment.Cycle time for measure data polling [ms]
Defines the sampling rate for measurement data (between 10ms and 100ms).
A sampling rate of 10ms allows high-speed data access. A sampling rate of 100ms allows high data transfer rates.
Changes in this setting become valid when opening an experiment the next time; an open experiment must be closed and reopened for the option to become valid.
General printer font
Opens the Font Selection dialog box, in which you can define the font family, font size, font style, etc. for the printout.
Enable measurement by polling
Determines whether measurement by polling is enabled or disabled. It allows users who work with ECU without event based measurement to use polling and users who work with full CCP or XCP ECU to disable it.
Yes
Enables measurement by polling
No
Disables measurement by polling
Keep existing Enables measurement by polling for experiments that already use the polling raster. You cannot select variables in the polling raster. For new experiments, however, it disables measurement by polling. Measure file base name (Preset)
Defines the string which shall be used by default for forming the name of measure files created by a recording.
Measure file name date/time suffix (Preset)
Defines the format of the date and time which can be appended by default to the name of the measure file. If you select an empty entry, no date or time info will be appended.
Measure file name date/time position (Preset)
Defines whether the date and time shall be inserted by default at the end (suffix) or at the beginning (prefix) of the file name.
Measure file min. digits for incr. count (Preset)
Specifies the minimum number of digits used for the increment of the measure file name. This setting is applied if auto-incrementation of the file name is enabled in the recorder configuration.
Example: a value of 2 will create a file in the format Measure01.dat.
Generate config. file(s) for MDA (Preset)
Defines whether an MDA configuration file (*.xda) is to be created in addition to the actual measurement file by default on completion of recording. The configuration described in the file is defined in such a way that the measurements in the MDA are displayed with the same configuration as in INCA (e.g. number and type of windows and distribution of measurement to windows). A separate configuration file is created for each layer in the experiment.
This setting is applied as default value to new experiments; it has no influence on existing experiments.
Open MDA when recording is stopped (Preset)
Defines whether the MDA is to be opened with the measurement file just created by default on completion of recording.
This setting is applied as default value to new experiments; it has no influence on existing experiments.
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