From the course: Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
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Read TDMS files with LabVIEW - LabVIEW Tutorial
From the course: Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
Read TDMS files with LabVIEW
- [Instructor] Logging data to a file is only useful if you can read it back again later. The easiest way to import a TDMS file into LabVIEW is using the Read from Measurement File Express VI, which can be found in the Functions pallet under the File I/O menu. The dialogue window for the Read from Measurement File VI has a lot of fields in common with the Write to Measurement File VI. It can support reading from the LVM File Format, as well as other generic text files. But for this demonstration, I'll select the TDMS File Format. Next, I'll use the Browse button to locate my file, which I have saved here on the desktop. And this is a log file I created using the DAQ Assistant in a previous video. I'll click OK and select that, and then click OK to close the window. I'll place a waveform graph on my front panel, and I'll stretch it out to make it a little bit larger. And then I'll connect it to the signal output from the…
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