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Waveform Manager Pro
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Waveform Manager Pro is the ideal tool to compose
annotated pictures from waveforms, screen images, and meter measurements
taken from your scope. It operates as a powerful stand-alone program, or
as a front-end for your favorite word processing, graphics or desktop
publishing package. Whether you're documenting problem signals,
preparing service reports for customers, or just printing waveform
pictures, Waveform Manager's easy operation combined with complete
document archival and high-quality picture transport via drag and drop
or the Windows Clipboard will make your chores a pleasure.
Transfer Data to/from your scope via your PC serial, GPIB or Ethernet
port
- Waveforms
- Setups
- Meter measurements
- Screen images
- Supports
over 120 different
models
Waveform manager works with the
four types of data most commonly availble from you scope including
waveforms, screen images, meter measurements and setups. All data types
can be transferred once on command or automatically on a schedule, or
when the scope triggers.
Compose and annotate
waveform pictures
- Drag-and-drop waveform placement
- Full control of colors fonts, styles
- Copy high resolution metafile pictures
and bitmaps directly through the clipboard
- Drag and drop waveform pictures into
other applications
Display multiple waveforms at once in the
waveform window with drag and drop placement together with magnification
facilities to easily highlight waveform details. Options allow you to
force disparate waveforms to be displayed on common time scales or
magnification settings.
Measurement and Analysis
Full screen X and Y
cursors
Use the cursors built-in to the waveform
window to measure time and voltage differences on your waveforms. 12
different measurements make quick work of measuring difficult waveform
features.
Waveform Parameter
Measurements
Over 30 different waveform measurements take
the tedium out of your analysis chores. Measurements include common
voltage and time/frequency types such as Peak to Peak and Rise Time.
Pattern Frequency and Pattern Period are
exclusive Waveform Manager measurements that use cross correlation to
identify the repetition rate of waveform sample patterns,
providing much more reliable results on noisy or PWM style waveforms.
Automotive measurements include Injector
Peak Volts, Injector On time, Ignition Peak, Ignition Burn Time and
Ignition Burn Voltage.
Many measurements can be gated to restrict
the region of measurement to the area between the X cursors. Thresholds
and noise immunity can be set individually on each measurement.
Measurement results can be displayed in the
dedicated Measurement Window, or placed in notes, window title bars or
even as file labels.
Import/Export Waveforms as
Tables
Waveform Manager provides
programmable ASCII table export capabilities, making it easy to output
your waveform data to spreadsheets or analysis programs. Export to
files or through the clipboard with your choice of CSV or tab
delimiting.
Waveform Database
User defined data fields
together with database indexing and search capabilities enable you to
customize the way you save your waveform information. Define fields to
track important customer data right along with you waveforms. If
particular fields would be useful when looking up files later, designate
them as file labels and they will be listed whenever you later go to
open a file. |

Waveform,
screen image and meter measurements from a Fluke 192. |
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Gated
measurement of color burst on video waveform. |
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Difference
between Frequency and Pattern Frequency. |
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Create
user defined fields to track waveform and customer information. |

Search for
waveform files by file label.
Waveform Manager Pro
Key Features at a Glance
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Dedicated Display Windows
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Waveform
Window - Multiple waveforms, multiple notes. Can display waveforms
independently or with common time scale, position. |
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Image
Window - One picture (metafile or bitmap), multiple notes |
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Setup
Window - Instrument setups |
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and
instrument settings |
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Measurement Window - Choose from over 100 different measurements,
waveform parameters, and instrument settings. Display in any
combination. Supports DDE. Also used to display meter measurements
from scope. |
Common Window Features
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Independent sizing, location |
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Customizable title bar, colors, display styles |
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Double
click to set properties |
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All
windows can be printed |
Notes
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Display in
Waveform or Image Windows |
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Drag-and-drop sizing and placement |
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Fonts,
background colors, and border styles are customizable |
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Comic-strip balloon style border available with drag-and-drop
pointer placement |
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Display
measurements and other data fields mixed with plain text. |
Waveform Information
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Placeable
programmable data boxes, one per waveform, show key parameters |
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Ground
symbol shows zero volt level |
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"+" marks
trigger point. |
Measurements and parameters
available as data fields:
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General
(date, time, etc.) |
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Meter
Readings from Scope |
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Waveform
Data |
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Instrument
Settings |
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Waveform
Measurements |
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Harmonic
Measurements Opt-P) |
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Power
Measurements (Opt P) |
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Cursor
Measurements |
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User
defined fields |
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Cursor Measurements
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Four
full-screen cursors (2 X, 2 Y) with 13 corresponding measurements |
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Cursors
can be used to gate many waveform measurements. |
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Results
can be displayed as data fields and in a customizable toolbar. |
File Formats
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Document
Files - Bundle all information and save to individual Waveform
Manager Document "WFD" files. Keyword search facility provides for
easy recall. |
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Waveform
Files - Import/export in common waveform file formats including ISF,
CSV, BWV and WFM. Export in user defined text formats. |
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Picture
Files - Import/export in BMP, PNG, JPEG, EMF formats. Pictures can
be embedded in Document files with annotation. |
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Measurement Log Files - Log multiple meter measurements into ASCII
text files. Import and display as waveform files. |
Clipboard Support/Drag and Drop
Select a display window
and press the Copy toolbar button to send a picture of the window to the
clipboard. Or drag and drop it directly into another application in
either DIB (bitmap) or EMF (metafile) format.
Copy individual waveforms
to the clipboard as pictures and data tables.
Epson Screen Grab
Generic screen grab facility
works with any instrument which prints screen pictures through a serial
port to an Epson or Snap-On Scribe compatible printer. Program converts
printer codes to bitmap and displays in Image Window.
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Automatic Transfers
Transfers
waveforms, measurements or screen images from locations you specify, or
from all currently displayed locations. Can perform transfers once at
program startup, when the scope triggers, or repeatedly with 1s to 24Hr
wait time between. Can be used in conjunction with Capture to File for
event logging based on trigger events, or for measurement logging. Also
can be used with Epson Screen Grab to automatically update display each
time a print job is initiated from the instrument.
Capture To File
Saves waveforms
transferred from an instrument into separately numbered files based on a
seed name you supply. One file is saved after each transfer except for
group transfers where waveforms may optionally be saved to separate
files. Number of files is adjustable up to 1,000. File formats include
WFD, BMP, PNG, JPEG, EMF.
Can also capture
designated measurements in multiple columns to a single measurement log
"TXT" file each time a waveform or measurement transfer occurs.
Printing
Print using
any printer that has Windows support. You can suppress the printing of
background colors, or convert the entire image to monochrome, for
excellent results with laser and dot matrix printers. Using Print
Preview you can adjust the size and location of the printed image on the
page, and view colors and proportions as they will appear.
Easy Installation
Program
identifies the currently connected instrument and automatically
configures the serial port for successful communication. Most of the 160
page user's guide is also available in the on-line help.
System Requirements
IBM PC or
compatible; Win95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0, ME, XP. VGA or better display is
recommended. One serial port, GPIB interface or Ethernet adapter for
instrument connection. GPIB requires National Instruments GPIB drivers.
Ethernet requires Tektronix TekVisa drivers. |
Waveform Library
A derivative of Waveform Manager called WaveFile
AutoPro was marketed for several years by Progressive Diagnostics Co. to
the automotive service industry. This program has been discontinued, but
Progressive has released the waveform library that was part of the product
to the public. The library is available as a collection of Waveform
Manager document files that are fully compatible with Waveform Manager Pro
V3.0. Contact us for details
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