Launching MDA from INCA

When working in INCA, you can directly access MDA V8.8 to analyze the measurement recording.

To launch V8.8 from INCA

To establish a connection, MDA V8.8 and INCA (V7.2.2 or higher) must be installed on the same machine.

  1. As a prerequisite, you have preselected MDA V8.8 as default MDA version in INCA under User Options > General tab.
  2. Launch V8.8, e.g., by doing one of the following:
    1. After having finished the measurement recording in the Experiment Environment of INCA, click .

    2. While the recording is still running in INCA, you can take a snapshot, also by clicking . The recording must be in the file format *.mdf4.

      Please note that the snapshot recording requires a combination of MDA V8.4.1 and INCA V7.3.0 or higher.

      For further details about the settings for snapshot recording, please see the INCA User Documentation.

    3. In the INCA main window, click Shift + . Then, select the measure files that you want to use in MDA V8.8.
  3. Perform your analysis in MDA V8.8.

  4. With INCA V7.2.14 (or higher) and MDA V8.3.3 (or higher), if MDA is already open, and exactly one measure file is assigned to the active configuration, a measure file replacement will take place. In case more than one file is assigned to the active configuration, a dialog appears to decide for an add or a replace operation. For more information, see To use the "Add or Replace Files" dialog.

    If INCA provides besides the measure file also an XDA file, and MDA V8 has no or only an empty configuration, MDA V8 imports the XDA file and the measure file from INCA.