Table Of Contents
DAQ Plot samples voltage signals and then processes them and displays them in various formats, namely on a strip chart (see Glossary). The following bullets gives pointers on where to go in this manual in order to read more and in the process touches upon the main ideas of DAQ Plot.
- Foremost, DAQ Plot is intended to be easy to use, at least at first. See the First Project tutorial to get started right away. Once you advance from straightforward data logging then there is a complex world of data synthesis and feedback control loops. DAQ Plot is designed to provide incremental complexity so that there can be a discovery process and an analysis process within the same application.
- The signal window shows strip chart output and is described in the section Major Components.
- To acquire a voltage signal you need to use compatible hardware as described in the Hardware sections.
- Naturally as soon as you acquire signals of higher frequency you shall want to perform vibration analysis and spectral analysis. For that see the Spectra section.
- The Derived preference section describes how to operate on signals to produce many things related to voltage signals such as energy, displacement, velocity, windowing and counting.
- DAQ Plot is not a programming system, neither is it a driver system. It is an application devoted to showing and working with voltages in an intuitive and high-quality format.
- The Simulation tutorial describes how to use a test signal, which does not require additional hardware, to work with DAQ Plot in order to further understand it.
- Once you have a nice graph in DAQ Plot then choose an Export technique to work with the data.