Chapter 1 Data Explorer™

Overview of 1 processing and graphic settings

Basics

Processing and graphic settings control how data is processed and displayed in the Data Explorer software. The last settings used are automatically saved in the data file when you close it. The next time you open the data file, you can select any of the following to apply:

•Settings from the data file— Described in Section 2.1, Opening and Closing Data Files.

•Default settings— Described below.

•Settings from a selected set file— You can also apply processing and graphic settings that have been exported as stand-alone .SET files from other data files. See “Applying a .SET file” on page 1-20.

What settings contain

Graphic settings include the attributes you set in Graphic Options, described in Section 1.5, Setting Graphic Options.

Processing settings include:

•Peak detection parameters, described in Section 3.2.4, Peak Detection Parameter Descriptions

•Smoothing points, described in Section 5.7, Noise Filtering/Smoothing

•Automatic calibration settings, described in Section 5.4, Automatic Calibration

Default processing and graphic settings

NOTE: You can open a .SET file in Microsoft Notepad to view the complete file contents.

The following default settings files (stand-alone .SET files) that contain both processing and graphic settings are provided on your system in the C:\MARINER\PROGRAM\Set Files directory or the C:\VOYAGER\PROGRAM\Set Files directory:

•MARINER.SET

•VOYAGERLINEAR.SET

•VOYAGERREFLECTOR.SET

•VOYAGERPSD.SET

For more information on Peak Detection settings, see Section 3.7, Default Peak Detection Settings.

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