Visualization of Offline Measurement

Go to Data menu and select Measurement and Calibration Files.
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Select Measurement and Calibration Files in the Data Source drop-down menu on the status bar.

Type the A2L file of type: *.a2l. Please note that, the EHANDBOOK-NAVIGATOR supports functions with duplicate function names in the A2L files.
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Click Browse…​ to select the file.

Select the encoding of the A2L file from the drop-down list. By default, the highest encoding confidence level (e.g. ISO-8859-1) is pre-selected.

Type the Data file of type: *.hex, *.s19 or others.
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Click Browse…​ to select the file.

Type the DCM, CDF or PaCo file of type: *.dcm, *.cdfx, *.xml.
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Click Browse…​ to select the file.

Type the measurement file of type: *.dat, or *.mf3, or *.mf4.
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Click Browse…​ to select the file.

The measurement and calibrations files which are loaded successfully will be added to the history. It becomes visible when you try to select the file next time from the drop-down menu. This helps to access previously loaded files quickly. The oldest, unused entry will be removed automatically when the history limit is reached. Clearing the history is not possible.

When you load the measurement file, its time ranges are shown at the bottom of the interactive model window. The range typically starts with zero, but this does not imply that measurement samples are also available with the beginning of the range. All buttons and fields are grayed out as long as the values are not added to a model.

Right-click on a label in an interactive model to add a value.
A context menu is displayed.

Click Display Value.

All the measurement values that are indexed are displayed. If the value of any of the indices are different, then they are displayed in red text.

When doing recordings (since INCA version 7.4.7) the format of indexed measurement values can follow different pattern. To accommodate this the index is automatically recognized whether the index is separated by an underscore like in variable_[0] or if the index is following the name immediately like in variable[0]. No manual settings required.

The numeric values that are found in the measurement files are replaced by their corresponding textual entries in the COMPU_VTAB.

If the space is not enough on the label below, then NO VALUE is shown to keep label name and value readable.

It is also possible to remove a single value.

Right-click on a label in an interactive model to hide a value.
A context menu is displayed.

Click Hide Value.

After adding at least one value, the time field and the navigation buttons become enabled. Automatically, the time of the first sample is shown which may not be zero as expected. A new time may be entered in seconds with fraction and the value is updated to the time of the next measurement sample after this point in time. There is only one time value for all inter- active models. So changing it in one model changes the time for all models and therefore the values.

When you expand a block by clicking icon on an interactive model, all label names that already have a value assigned, also get updated with values automatically. Here the labels in the above example have a value.

But, when you expand the box or interactive model, all labels get a value assigned if a value is already known. This saves your time to add labels again which you are interested in.

This happens even if you close the interactive model and open the same or another interactive model. For all known labels, the value get updated automatically.

The forward navigation button ( ), backward navigation button ( ) allow to step ONE sample forward and backward respectively in time. This is not intended as a way to move in time.