Chapter 5 Using With Other Applications

Exporting Arbitrary Waveforms to Other Applications

Exporting Arbitrary Waveforms to Other

Applications

You can export waveforms created in HP BenchLink/Arb to other applications. There are two ways to do this: using the clipboard or by exporting the waveform data.

To Export a Waveform Using the Clipboard

1Use Edit Select All to highlight the waveform in the waveform edit window and copy it to the Clipboard with Edit Copy Image.

2Switch to the destination application and use Insert Paste or Shift+Insert to put the clipboard contents into the application.

The Clipboard contents are inserted in a Windows .BMP format.

To Export Waveform Data

1

Select the waveform edit window and choose File Save As ... or click

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the Save icon.

 

2

Select the desired export file format by clicking on the

 

 

SAVE FILE AS TYPE drop-down list and choosing either

 

 

.CSV , .PRN, or .BIN.

 

3

Enter the desired file and click the OK button.

 

 

 

 

 

.CSV files are point/ amplitude pairs separated by a comma. This is a

 

 

popular format for spreadsheets such as Microsoft Excel.

 

 

.PRN files are point/ amplitude pairs separated by a tab character. This

 

 

format is used by some spreadsheets and programs like Mathcad.

 

 

.BIN files are IEEE-488.2 binary block format.

 

 

 

 

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