exporting data

[yazan206]

hi everyone, 

I have a huge number of data from a plot that do not fit an excel spreadsheet so some data are being omitted, so is there another way to export all the data to a .csv or .dat format 

Cheers 

[RavensFan]

Write to Spreadsheet File or now known as Write Delimited Spreadsheet.

Though it won't solve your Excel problem if you try to import too much data into Excel.

[yazan206]

so can you suggest something that could export all my data 

[GerdW]

Hi yazan,

you can export as much data as you like into CSV files!

You need some other tool than Excel in order to analyze the data later on. Have you heard about Diadem from NI?

[yazan206]

I havent heard of it but what im trying to do is to export the data so i can be able to load them into matlab, so how does diadem work

[RavensFan]

If you're going from LabVIEW to MatLab, what made you think you should take a detour through Excel?

[yazan206]

how would i import them into matlab then? 

[aputman]

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@yazan206 wrote:

how would i import them into matlab then? 

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Does Matlab not know how to import CSV?  I'm sure there are also plugins available for Matlab to read in TDMS files. 

[yazan206]

yes it can but the only way to export data from labview is to excel so i guess i might have to download DIAdem 

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

No.  There are many ways to get data out of LabVIEW.

As I said, use the Write Delimited Spreadsheet function in the File I/O palette.  It will write a CSV file as big as you need it, within limitations of the file system.  There are other File Write functions that allow you to write out text files if you want more direct control over the data being written out.

While Diadem is an option, I don't see why you'd need it based on what you've told us so far and the fact that LabVIEW has subVI's built in that create CSV files.