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
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| .CSV , .PRN, or .BIN. |
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| .PRN files are point/ amplitude pairs separated by a tab character. This |
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