Digital meter

The "classic" view of test and measurement. It can be either a digital meter where data is represented as actual value, RMS or averaged. The time window for calculation is selectable.

Analog meters

Another well known view of test & measurement. Data is represented as actual value, RMS or averaged also. Analog meter in DEWESoft can have four different shapes.

Bar graph meters

This instrument allows a quick overview of the data - levels which change the color can be defined. A critical value is detected easily. Bar graph can be oriented either horizontal or vertical and is available in several different designs.

Indicator lamp

You need a simple ON/OFF indicator? Look no more we have a digital display for that too.

Gallery

DEWESoft 7 display with different analog and digital meters on a white background.

Grid of digital meters.

Another display with different analog and digital meters on a dark blue background and with properties and channel selector panels visble.

Recorder graph

This graph window shows up to 32 channel per screen - the total number of channels can be 1.000 or even more. The data is streamed to the local hard disk at a rate of 160 MByte per second ( i.e. 80 channel @ 1 MS/s).

The recording time can be minutes, hours or even days and is limited by the hard disk capacity only. Multiple time axes allow to visualize data in great detail but also give a overview of a hours at the same time. Infinite zoom-in and zoom-out controls are available for each recorder display.

While continuously streaming data the screen can be switched to FREEZE mode - details of the last seconds can be viewed and analysed while storing in the background.

Several zoomed-in recorder displays on a white background.

Several recorder displays on a dark background.

Recorder display with two user defined cursors.

Vertical recorder

This mode allows similar functions as the RECORDER GRAPH, but in a vertical "paper recorder like style". Additional information of the absolute min and max values of each channel is shown in this mode.

Several vertical recorder displays on a white background.

Several vertical recorder displays on a dark background.

Several zoomed-in vertical recorder displays on a white background.

FFT analyzer

This view is used to display a real time FFT diagram, based and calculated from each channel which is captured. Even a mathematical channel can be used. With the FFT display you can select:

  • line resolution: 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16k, 32k and 64k,
  • window type: rectangular, hanning, hamming, flat top, triangle, blackman and exponent down,
  • lin or log scaling for X and Y axis,
  • display modes: averaging, overlapping or weighted.
The data on FFT display is shown while storing data. All harmonic life peak values can be displayed in a separate table.

Multiple FFT displays

Single FFT display displaying FFT for several channels

Another FFT display together with harmonic FFT display.

Another single FFT display displaying FFT for several channels

FFT display properties panel

3D graph

3D diagram is ideal for presenting signal series. For example it is sometimes interesting to see FFT data (which is usualy presented in 2D) in 3D. In that case we gain one more information. How frequency content of signal changed over time. Another example of 3D data is rainflow counting for fatigue analysis. Data is classifed by average and peak-to-peak relation. To view that on one graph we need three dimensions.

Graph allows us to:

  • rotate, zoom, pan
  • set history count (how far back we want to see the data)
  • use linear or logarithmic Z-axis
  • use rainbow or grayscale pallette for drawing
  • four different projections: XY, YX, XZY, YXZ

3D FFT display

3D FFT display

Scope

This display is a standard scope instrument. It run in following modes:

  • trigger,
  • auto,
  • norm,
  • single.

Scope display

3D scope display

Trigger function

You can always just press STORE and then STOP to control recording, but DEWESoft 7 offers very extensive triggering. DEWESoft implements several trigger types:

  • Simple edge (either rising or falling slope)

  • Filtered edge (edge plus rearm level; either slope)

  • Window trigger (two levels; entering or leaving logic)

  • Pulsewidth trigger (longer or shorter than duration logic)

  • Window and Pulsewidth (completely selectable as above)

  • Slope Trigger (rising or falling slope with steepness selection)

Multiple trigger

Dependent on the defined trigger conditions data is stored only when one or more of the conditions are true. By defining pre and post trigger times you can also capture data before and after the condition case occured. With this functionality you are able to analyze what happened immediately before the trigger condition. Since no data is stored between trigger conditions the amount of stored data is minimized.

Trigger

Trigger

Other visual controls

In addition to standard instrument controls, DEWESoft 7 offers many other ready-to-use visual controls, all out of the box. Each and every visual control in DEWESoft 7 comes with it's own set of control properties that allows you to customize and visualize data according to your own needs. Here is the complete list of build-in visual controls:

  • Digital meter

  • Analog meter

  • Bar meter

  • Veritcal bar meter

  • Indicator lamp

  • Horiz. recorder

  • Vertical recorder

  • XY recorder

  • 2D graph

  • 3D graph

  • Scope

  • Orbit

  • FFT

  • FFT 3D

  • Octave

  • Video

  • GPS screen

  • Vector scope

  • Harmonic FFT

  • Backg. picture

  • Text note

  • Line

  • Tabular values

  • Overload ind.

Custom visual controls

If all the build-in visual controls are not enough for your projects, DEWESoft 7 offers you a plugin technology which allows you to extend DEWESoft with implementation of your own visual controls. Create virtually any display you want or need, options are unlimited.

Please take a look at developers section for resources about plugins development.