Omega Products OMB-PostView Installation Manual

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User’s Guide

OMB-457-0916 rev 1.0

OMB-PostView

Post Data Acquisition Analysis Application

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WARNING: These products are not designed for use in, and should not be used for, human applications.

PostView

Overview …… 1
System Requirements …… 4
Installation ……4
Layout and Controls …… 5
Understanding the Status Bar …… 8
Changing Display Parameters …… 9

Overview

PostView is a time-domain post-acquisition data viewing application that can be integrated with primary data
acquisition software, including DaqView, Personal DaqView, ChartView, LogView, and WaveView. The viewer
provides a means of setting up several display pages, each with one or more scopes and single or multiple channels
to view as Analog, Counts, or Logic traces (with one type per scope). You can set up PostView to run from your
data acquisition program’s ViewData button. Configuration instructions follow shortly.

Note that you cannot mix channel types within a scope. Attempting to do so will result in a message stating, for
example, Only Analog Channels can be added to an Analog Scope.

The PostView Concept

(1) Data acquisition device, such as a WaveBook, LogBook, DaqBook, or ChartScan unit.

(2) PC with data acquisition software, e.g., WaveView, LogView, DaqView, ChartView

PostView can set to start from their ViewData button.

(3) A disk of data files (raw binary)… or, simply data files stored in the PC.

(4) A PC with PostView installed. PostView can be used to view acquisition

data from files on the PC’s hard drive or from a disk.

The PostView application provides easy-to-use post-acquisition analysis capability. Depending on the version used,
you can display up to 8 time-domain function windows and display up to 16 channel traces per window. Data is
automatically scaled to optimize its fit in the window. Features of the program include:

• File Input Format Support for: DaqView, WaveView, Personal DaqView, ChartView, DaqCOM2

• Up to 8 Display Windows

• 16 Channel Traces per Display Window

• Automatic Data Scaling

• Configurable Data Display for channels and trace colors

• Multiple Tiling of display windows

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System Requirements

Your computer should meet the following minimum requirements.

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Intel

, Pentium 90 MHz or equivalent
64 MB Memory
100 MB Hard Disk space
Monitor: SVGA, 800 x 600 resolution
One of the following Microsoft

Windows NT; Windows 2000; Windows XP

If you purchased software, associated authorization codes will accompany your
installation CD. If this is the case, keep your codes in a safe place. You will need to enter
them once, during an actual run of the purchased software.

No authorization code or password is needed to run PostView at its base level.

Installation

Before installing a version of our data-acquisition software, remove all
previous versions of that software.

Reference Notes:

• Adobe Acrobat PDF versions of documents pertaining to your system hardware and

software are automatically installed onto your PC’s hard-drive as a part of product
support at the time of software installation. The default location is the Programs
group, which can be accessed via the Windows Desktop Start Menu.

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Windows Operating Systems:

• PDF versions of documents can be read directly from the data acquisition CD.

• After your software is installed you can setup your data acquisition device, e.g.,

WaveBook, DaqBook, LogBook, and connect it to the host computer. Instructions
for hardware setup are included in your device user’s manual, which is included on
the CD.

When you first install software for your acquisition device, PostView will automatically be selected for installation
along with the primary acquisition software application. For example, when a WaveBook is selected, both
WaveView and PostView will show as pre-selected software options.

To install PostView …

1. Start Windows.

2. Close all running applications.

3. Insert the Data Acquisition CD into your CD-ROM drive and wait for the CD to auto-run.

If the CD does not start on its own:

(a) click the desktop’s <Start> button
(b) choose the Run command
(c) select the CD-ROM drive, then select the setup.exe file
(d) click <OK>

An Opening Screen will appear.

4. Click the <ENTER SETUP> button.

5. On the hardware selection screen [which follows a licensing agreement], select your hardware from

the drop-down list.

6. On the resulting software options screen, select the software that is applicable to your system.

Note that PostView is already selected by default.

7. Click the <Install> button; then follow the screen prompts to complete the installation.

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