printing a chart

[Dombanks]

is there a way to automaticaly print the chart that is generated when i run my VI. basically i am measuring a voltage for about 1 min and diplaying it on a chart. i want it to automatically either save the data to an excel sheet and/or print the chart on the printer attcahed to the computer.

i know i can right click and go to export and take it to the clipboard or save the image but this is a pest as i have to then open it in another file. im producing loads of these graphs and this is time consuming.

I also tried to export it to exel and it was rubish as it only eported the whole number and i need the 4 decimal places it measured at. maybe i was doing this wrong so please point it out.

thanks for any help

Dom

[Balze]

Sure,

you can print the frontpanel programmatically

You need the VI Reference and an "Invoke Node"

Select Print panel (or similar, I have a german LV)

This prints the Panel to the default printer.

OR

You create a reference of your chart,

take a "property node", select value,

connect the value output to the 1D input of the "Write to spreadsheet file.vi"

Best regards,

Balze

[smercurio_fc]

A shortcut to the method suggested above is to have the VI print the front panel automatically when it completes. This can be set in the VI properties.

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I also tried to export it to exel and it was rubish as it only eported the whole number and i need the 4 decimal places it measured at. maybe i was doing this wrong so please point it out.

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This sounds like you simply used the wrong format code for the numbers. If you upload your code then it will be easier to identify the issue.

[Dombanks]

its part of a larger program so ill extract the little bit into a VI on its own and do get it up . thanks