2013 nCode User Group Meeting - April 30, 2013
Tips and Tricks for Using nCode
Kurt Munson
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• Click on the glyph palette.
• Type the first letter of the glyph you’re looking for.
• Glyph is automatically highlighted. • Hit letter key again to cycle through all
glyphs that start with that letter.
All glyphs have descriptions given as tool tips.
Hover the cursor over a glyph to see a description of what this glyph does.
The glyph palette includes search capability to find glyphs based on keywords like ‘rosette’ or ‘vibration’.
The glyph description is searched for this keyword – not just the name of the glyph.
Create your own glyph palette with your own collections of glyphs.
• Any glyph can be saved to any glyph palette. This enables user-configured glyphs like “My PSD” to be saved for easy re-use.
• Create your own glyphs and reuse or share!
Saving Glyphs
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Drag new glyph directly onto pad to get glyph and the connected pipe. Watch for the yellow light to indicate that a connection can be made.
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• Drag and drop from the glyph palette, or…. • Right click – Insert Glyph
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• Right click on a pad and select Connect.
• A list of possible connections is shown.
• This makes it easier to connect glyphs that are far apart.
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• Mouse over a glyph’s pad to learn about its content.
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• Rename glyphs as a reminder of their purpose.
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Describe a glyph in your own words.
• Right click and select Info…., then enter a description. • View this information by clicking on the Info button.
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• CTRL + A : select all glyphs • CTRL + C: copy • CTRL + X: cut • CTRL + V: paste • CTRL + Z: undo • CTRL + R: run process • CTRL + N: new process • CTRL + O: open process • CTRL + S: save process
Keyboard Shortcuts
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• Property Editor: allows quick access to glyph properties
• Diagnostics: reports run time messages
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• Matrix view turns the Available Data window into a table of channels (in rows) and tests (in columns)
• Select channels and drag in to work on that data
nCode Viewer
• Save the configuration of displays as your preferred set-up.
• Define how you want the display to look and then save it with right mouse option ‘Save configuration’.
• Includes separate configurations in XYDisplay for time series, histogram, and multi-column data.
nCode Viewer: Launch from Windows Explorer
All channels in this file
Double click on data file to launch nCode Viewer
Double Click on a Data File to View
Other file types can be associated with nCode Viewer using FileAssociation.exe.
Free nCode Viewer
Download from:
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Double Click on .FLO to Open nCode and the Process
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Save Process saves all the glyphs, pipes, and properties.
• The process is saved as a .flo file.
• The process is a template for processing more data in the future.
Save Process With Data also saves the results that flow through the process.
• The process is saved as a .fdb file.
• The process includes the current data filenames.
Package Process and Data saves the process and all data files into a portable package.
• The process and data are saved as a .zip file. • Makes it easy to share with a colleague.
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To open files in multiple folders:
Select Open Data Files, then Recurse sub-folders
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Quick statistics report:
• Right click on a test or channel and select Details.
Channel Details
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Save to Test List File makes it easy to repopulate the Available Data Window next time.
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• Use SaveTestList to keep track of input files.
• This input glyph will now remember which input files it contains. • The process will now contain input files when reopened.
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• Mark sections in the TimeSeriesInput glyph using CTRL + left click • Only highlighted data is passed downstream
• Can have multiple sections, which are concatenated together • Sections can be moved with orange drag handles
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Concatenate multiple tests into a single test using TimeSeriesInput’s
CombineAllTests = True
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Create a collated table of statistical results for all tests.
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• Update displayed metadata without rerunning the process. • Good debugging tool when a process won’t run as expected.
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Metadata can be used as glyph properties. • Available metadata are shown by picklist.
• Example: Arithmetic glyph can remove the mean from each channel by using
#Mean#.
• Channel references are not needed, but can be used.
#Mean# = mean of every channel separately
#Chan1.Mean# = mean of channel 1
Metadata set name (for example, Attributes) is not needed:
#Attributes.Mean# is the same as #Mean#
Metadata are case INSENSITIVE.
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TestSplitter glyph can use metadata to find channels • Example: any channel with units containing ‘strain’
• Select Collate Data to keep all displayed results if working with multiple separate tests.
Collating Data for Display
Results from all 3 tests
• Pick which results are displayed with the Channel Selection dialog
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• Individual pipes can be disabled to control data flow.
• Example: Don’t write out new time series until viewing before and after displays.
Disabling Data Flow
Highlighted pipe indicates that it’s been disabled.
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Viewing the Workspace
Full screen button (or use F9)
Workspace zoom slider
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• All glyph properties are help-enabled.
• Right click and select Help on property to learn more.
nCode Worked Examples
• GlyphWorks includes 24 worked examples. • DesignLife includes 21 worked examples.
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Fatigue Theory Guides
The nCode install theory guides for both GlyphWorks and DesignLife.
Look under Manuals – Contents.
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nCode Training
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