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Additionally, MDA V8.6 allows to define customer-specific textual (ASCII)
measure file formats by an INI file. For more information, see "Defining
ASCII Measure File Formats" on page 22.
With the optional CAN Bus Trace add-on, MDA supports the analysis of CAN
bus trace files (BLF) in combination with a bus description file (DBC or
ARXML). This add-on is recommended to use trace file contents as ordinary
measure files.
To enable the Bus Trace functionality, you need a valid license provided with
the INCA CAN-Trace add-on.
You can perform the following actions:
"To add a measure file" below
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"To use the "Add or Replace Files" dialog" on the next page
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"To replace a measure file" on the next page
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"To remove a measure file" on page 31
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"To remove all "No-Match" signals" on page 32
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To add a measure file
To see how you can add a measure file, save and open a configuration, or add
configuration comments, watch our video
MDA V8.6 – User Guide
1. Select the configuration to which you want to add the measure
file. If no configuration is already open, it is created automatically
when adding a measure file.
2. Do one of the following:
If the respective measure file extension was linked to MDA V8
(using Open with in Windows Explorer), just double-click the
desired measure file in your file system.
Drag and drop one or more measure files from your file sys-
tem onto the main window of MDA V8.6.
On the Configuration tab of the ribbon, click
measure files from your file system and click Ok.
In the File Explorer, right-click the configuration name and
select Add Measure File(s). Select the measure files from
your file system and click Ok.
You can add the same measure file only once. Otherwise, a
message is displayed in the status bar at the bottom of the
MDA V8.6 window.
If measure files have been removed earlier and the con-
figuration thus contains "No-Match" signals, a dialogue opens
2 Configuration Creation
Starting to Work.
. Select the
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