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Import settings

 

Applies to

Sensoft Multiline

Issue

How do I import my settings from Sensoft 1.5, Sensoft ML or Sensoft MC into Sensoft Multiline?

Solution

Since this operation is only semi-automatic, you best email us your settings files and we do the conversion for you. The settings file that is opened at the application start is the file Default_config.ini located in the folder:

For Sensoft 1.5: Documents\LabVIEW Data\Sensoft\Config Data\Configurations
For Sensoft ML: Documents\LabVIEW Data\Sensoft\Config Data\Configurations_ML
For Sensoft MC: Documents\LabVIEW Data\Sensoft\Config Data\Configurations_MC

If you have other other settings files that you load manually, send us these too. For Sensoft MC please send us also the file Thresholds_table_mc.txt in the same folder.

After receiving the converted files back, copy Default config.ini to  Documents\LabVIEW Data\Sensoft\Config Data\Configurations Multiline and, if there are, the other files to a directory of your choice.

For reference, the procedure is the following:

  1. Copy the settings file to the new location (e.g. Documents\LabVIEW Data\Sensoft\Config Data\Configurations Multiline\Default config.ini)
  2. Open the new settings file in a text editor
  3. Replace the first line from e.g. [Sensoft_MC.vi] to [Sensoft Multiline.vi]
  4. Lines containing  Box config path: Replace the "_" with spaces. Usually one line like Boxes Config (in) 0.Box config path = "Config_Sensystem_Compact_621x_box.ini"
  5. Lines containing  Calibration path: Remove the string Config Data\\
  6. (This is required only if you want these parameters to have a non-standard value, which is quite rare.) Manually add the following lines, where the right hand side is calculated from the values of the old settings:
    Update rate \5BHz\5D = scan rate / # scans
    Mean data interval \5Bm\5D = DC avg. time * Recipe 0.Speed * 60
    Filter.Lower cutoff frequency \5BHz\5D = 1/Filter specs.Lower Fc period [sec]
    Boxes 0.DO.Duration = "Until wire good again" if Reset Ctrs? = True, "Until end of measurement" otherwise. If you have more than one box, also for Boxes 1, and so on.
  7. (Only for Sensoft MC) For all lines Recipe x. Criteria y.Type = "z", where x and y are numbers and z a string like "Lump Alarm":
    1. Replace in z: "Neck-Down" -> "Neck-down", "Std. dev." -> "Roughness"
    2. Replace the space in z with '"\nRecipe x. Criteria y.Severity = "'

    In Notepad++ this corresponds to a Replace all with the following Regular expression:
    Find what: ^Recipe (\d+).Criteria (\d+).Type = "(?:(Neck-[Dd]own)|(Std. dev.)|(.+?)) (.+?)"$
    Replace with: Recipe \1.Criteria \2.Type = "(?3Neck-down:)(?4Roughness:)\5"\nRecipe \1.Criteria \2.Severity = "\6"
    The result is e.g.:
    Recipe 0.Criteria 1.Type = "Neck-Down Alarm"
    becomes
    Recipe 0.Criteria 1.Type = "Neck-down"
    Recipe 0.Criteria 1.Severity = "Alarm"

  8. In Sensoft Multiline, open the settings file (button Load... on page Settings)
  9. Reset and control the DI/O settings: In Sensoft Multiline, open the hardware configuration (button Configure... on page Settings), change Sensystem type to a similar and then back. Accept with button OK
  10. Manually edit the Criteria. Using the right mouse button you can copy criteria and paste them to all lines
  11. Save the configuration file (button Save As...) over itself