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Screen Grabs on TDS series scope over GPIB?
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nctnico:
When necessary I dumped the data into a CSV file and process with Excel. Otherwise just write a BMP file to a disk.
daveyk:
Do you have a copy of Wavestar 3.0 that you could email me?  I am looking for it to see how it works with a TDS380/GPIB interface that I have.  I am only interested in screen capture.

Now, I will be adding a TDS380 module to test software that I have written which currently support that more modern TDS3000 series scopes.  I just hjappened to get this TDS380 for free and added the GPIB interface for it.  I can talk to it and control it, but I also would like to have a utility to do a simple screen capture.   Saving it to a floppy (which I have several hundred 3.5" floppies made in 2012 - LOL) and then tranfering it to my puter via a USB to 3.5" Floppy is time consuming and rather backwards once I got use to Openchoice Desktop, but alas, it does not support the TDS380.

Dave
KE5FX:

--- Quote from: rx8pilot on May 15, 2015, 06:56:38 pm ---UPDATE:

I have been using Tektronix Wavestar for a while now to capture data from my TDS scope. Describing it as a disappointment is putting it lightly. It is from around 1998 or so, and rather rotten even for that time period.

Anyway.....what modern options are there for capturing scope data (Tek TDS700 series in my case) for the purpose of logging various points in the development of a circuit? Custom Python code is not what I am after either since I will spend more time fiddling with code every time I need to grab something. The hope is for a modern-ish GUI based 'click to grab' so that I can focus on the test and keep a log.

Surely there is something out there - free or paid, right?

--- End quote ---

7470.EXE will work with your scope.  You will get plots that look like this:



...  but what I do with my TDS694C is request .BMP files directly, rather than going through the plotter emulator.  The current version of the package that contains 7470.EXE also has a batch file, TDSBMP.BAT, that fetches a .bmp image via another utility (BINQUERY.EXE). 



(Trace labels were added "in post.")

This should work fine with either Prologix or NI adapters.  Pretty handy if you can live with a batch file.  If you want a nicer GUI than 7470.EXE, albeit a non-free one, PrintCapture is likely to be a good choice (no affiliation).
djnz:

--- Quote from: daveyk on May 24, 2017, 02:47:46 am ---Do you have a copy of Wavestar 3.0 that you could email me?

--- End quote ---

Tek has now made Wavestar free.
 
http://www.tek.com/oscilloscope/tds510a-software/wavestar-oscilloscopes

See the 'Instructions' link on that page for the license key.
daveyk:
Thank you.  I was able to get that but during installing it states to but it or install the trial.  I suspect just to install the purchased version.

The second issue iis that it seems to support every Tektronix scope BUT the TDS 300 series.  I saw a chart somewhere last night that showed versions of Wavestar and the instruments supported.  The TDS380 was on one of the versions.

I have tried version 3.0, probably in trial mode, and the TDS380 is definitely not on its list.  The instrument manager can see and communicate with the scope (setting it up as a different model such as a TDS40x or a TDS 3032) but Wavestar itself will do nothing with it.

DaVE
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