Create an ObserVIEW Project
March 31, 2021
Getting Started
Analysis Options
Recording & Analyzing Live Data
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In ObserVIEW, users can open, view, and edit time waveforms, playback data with synchronized media, develop test profiles from recorded data, and more. The next several lessons will help you to navigate options within the software.
The question mark icon in the title bar enables Context Help mode. After enabling Context Help, click anywhere in ObserVIEW, and the software will direct you to the appropriate section of the Help file.
Open, Close, and Save Projects
To open a file, select File > Open. Select the Recording (VFW), Project, or File button to open a recording or project. ObserVIEW creates a project (.obserproj) every time a file is opened or a hardware device is connected to the software.
Open options in the application menu.
ObserVIEW can import 100+ GB of data from any data acquisition device. ObserVIEW supports VibrationVIEW waveform files (.vfw), ObserVIEW projects (.obserproj), and .csv, .txt, .rpc, .rsp, .uff, .unv, and .wav files. The user can import files from non-Vibration Research hardware so long as the file type is compatible.
The Recent Files/Recordings pane contains a list of recent projects. Select an item from this list to restore the project to its most recent state.
- To create a new ObserVIEW project, select File > New Project
- To save a project, select File > Save Project; the software will save the file with a *.obserproj extension
- To close a project, select File > Close Project
Batch File Processor
The Batch File Processor is an interface where the user can employ ObserVIEW’s command-line capabilities before opening a file. They can modify one or multiple files with filtering or resampling, select the conversion file type, overlay files, and more.
Batch File Processor dialog.
Overlay Files
Engineers may select to overlay files so that the data start and finish at relatively the same time. The Batch File Processor can overlay files and trim the excess data that do not overlap or zero-pad the missing data on the shorter file.
For a more precise overlay, the “Overlay and align files using GPS” option uses the external time reference from NMEA files to align recordings.