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DEWESOFT 7.0

Installation manual

Thank you!

Thank you very much for your investment in our unique data acquisition solutions. This guide has been prepared to help you get the

most from your purchase, starting from the day you take it out of the box, and extending for years into the future.

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Dewesoft installation manual

1 Table of contents

1 Table of contents....................................................................................2

2 Safety Instructions..................................................................................3

3 Installation .............................................................................................6

3.1 Installing Dewesoft......................................................................................6

3.2 Hardware setup.........................................................................................13

3.3 Registration...............................................................................................14


2 Safety Instructions

The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice.

DEWESOFT d.o.o.. (DEWESOFT) shall not be liable for any errors contained in this document. DEWESOFT MAKES NO

WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THIS DOCUMENT, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. DEWESOFT

SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMS THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

DEWESOFT shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages, whether based on

contract, tort, or any other legal theory, in connection with the furnishing of this document or the use of the

information in this document.

Warranty Information:

A copy of the specific warranty terms applicable to your DEWESOFT product and replacement parts can be obtained

from your local sales and service office.

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Safety symbols in the manual:

WARNING Calls attention to a procedure, practice, or condition that could cause body injury or death.

CAUTION Calls attention to a procedure, practice, or condition that could possibly cause damage to equipment or

permanent loss of data.

WARNINGS The following general safety precautions must be observed during all phases of operation, service, and repair of this

product. Failure to comply with these precautions or with specific warnings elsewhere in this manual violates safety

standards of design, manufacture, and intended use of the product. DEWESOFT d.o.o. assumes no liability for the

customer’s failure to comply with these requirements.

All accessories shown in this document are available as option

and will not be shipped as standard parts.

Environmental Considerations

Information about the environmental impact of the product.

Product End-of-Life Handling

Observe the following guidelines when recycling a DEWESOFT system:

System and Components Recycling

Production of these components required the extraction and use of natural resources. The substances contained in the

system could be harmful to your health and to the environment if the system is improperly handled at it's end of life!

Please recycle this product in an appropriate way to avoid an unnecessary pollution of the environment and to keep

natural resources.

This symbol indicates that this system complies with the European Union’s requirements according to

Directive 2002/96/EC on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Please find further

information about recycling on the DEWESOFT web site

www.dewesoft.org

Restriction of Hazardous Substances

This product has been classified as Monitoring and Control equipment, and is outside the scope of the 2002/95/EC

RoHS Directive. However we take care about our environment and the product is lead free.


Safety instructions for all DEWESOFT systems

• The DEWESOFT data acquisition systems may only be installed by experts.

• Read your manual before operating the system.

• Observe local laws when using the instrument.

• Ground the equipment: For Safety Class 1 equipment (equipment having a protective earth terminal), a non

interruptible safety earth ground must be provided from the mains power source to the product input wiring

terminals or supplied power cable.

• DO NOT operate the product in an explosive atmosphere or in the presence of flammable gases or fumes.

• DO NOT operate damaged equipment: Whenever it is possible that the safety protection features built into this

product have been impaired, either through physical damage, excessive moisture, or any other reason, REMOVE

POWER and do not use the product until safe operation can be verified by service-trained personnel. If necessary,

return the product to DEWESOFT sales and service office for service and repair to ensure that safety features are

maintained.

• Keep away from live circuits: Operating personnel must not remove equipment covers or shields. Procedures

involving the removal of covers or shields are for use by service-trained personnel only. Under certain conditions,

dangerous voltages may exist even with the equipment switched off. To avoid dangerous electrical shock, DO NOT

perform procedures involving cover or shield removal unless you are qualified to do so.

• No modifications are allowed at the instrument. The fuse in the power module has to be replaced by the same

type. For continued protection against fire, replace the line fuse(s) only with fuse(s) of the same voltage and

current rating and type. DO NOT use repaired fuses or short-circuited fuse holder labels and print on the power

module may not be removed.

• DO NOT service or adjust alone. Do not attempt internal service or adjustment unless another person, capable of

rendering first aid and resuscitation, is present.

• DO NOT substitute parts or modify equipment: Because of the danger of introducing additional hazards, do not

install substitute parts or perform any unauthorized modification to the product. Return the product to a

DEWESOFT sales and service office for service and repair to ensure that safety features are maintained.

• Disconnect power before opening the instrument (experts only) or exchanging the fuse in the power module!

• Don’t touch internal wiring!

• Don’t use higher supply voltage than specified!

• Use only original plugs and cables for harnessing.

• You may not connect higher voltages than rated to any connectors.

• The power-cable and -connector serve as Power-Breaker. The cable must not exceed 10 feet, disconnect function

must be possible without tools.

• Safety of the operator and the unit depend on following these rules.

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3 Installation

3.1 Installing Dewesoft

To install Dewesoft for measurement devices, please run the Dewesoft_FULL_7_0.exe installation.

Please note, that if you have installed previous versions of Dewesoft 7 (beta or release candidate versions), the

installer will ask you to remove previous versions.

You can do it in Control panel – Add/Remove programs.

After uninstalling, the setup program will run correctly.


First screen is pure information what is about to be installed. Please click Next.

Next screen is the Dewesoft license agreement. In order to install the software, an option “I accept the terms of

license agreement” must be chosen.

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Next screen is the most important for behaviour of Dewesoft. There are two options to choose from:

1) Dewesoft Measurement Unit: install the Dewesoft for highest performance and data safety. The

suggested installation procedure is to have all the data on the second partition (or even second hard disk

or array of disks) which are separated from system partition. OS partition gets fragmented over time and

then the writing performance dramatically drops. Therefore in this installation mode Dewesoft binaries,

setups as well as the data folder is in the same folder (suggested D:/Dewesoft7, if available). If you

reformat the system, Dewesoft installation could remain, just the device drivers needs to be reinstalled.

2) Windows Standard : This will install Dewesoft binaries in the Windows program files folder and will put

setups and data files in My documents folder. This installation fully complies with Windows installation

policies and is recommended for installing Dewesoft for viewing the data on corporate computers with

strict IT policies.


In the next step the installer will ask you for installation folder. In my case when choosing “Dewesoft

measurement unit”, the suggested folder is c:\Dewesoft7, because I have no d: drive in the system. The folder can

be changed by clicking Browse button.

Next screen will ask for user name and user location. This importation is important for licensing. In case of

Windows standard installation, an additional option will appear either to install the software for all users or for a

single user. In case of all users, data and setups will appear in Shared documents, otherwise it will be in My

documents for the user logged in at time of installation.

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Next screen will ask to install NET addons. If the system is planned to be used in NET configuration as

measurement unit, then these option is mandatory.

Next screen will ask you for a language preference. All the languages will be also available to set within Dewesoft,

but this will set default selection of the language.


Finally, the screen to confirm the chosen installation options will appear. Clicking Install will start the installation

process.

A part of installation will be installing the drivers for USB devices. Depending on computer privileges this could

fail, but has no significant influence if no USB device is used. In other case, please install the drivers manually.

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At the end of installation, you might be prompted to restart the computer. This can be done right after the

installation or manually at later times.


3.2 Hardware setup

After installation is completed, a hardware setup and product registration needs to be done. This part can be

skipped if Dewesoft is used only as a data viewer.

Please run Dewesoft, go to the System-Hardware setup and choose your measurement device. This depends on

hardware configuration you plan to use.

The system configuration varies a lot from system to system. Let’s look at most simple example – Dewe43.

In this case you need to select Dewesoft USB for Analog and CAN bus device. As soon as any device is selected,

Registration tab goes red showing that the software needs to be registered. Please note that you can ask on

www.dewesoft.org web page for 30 days evaluation license to check the software with your hardware.

Please consult the user’s manual and hardware manuals for details on how to setup measurement hardware. A

nice option is always to add a Video – you can always use any DirectX supported web or handy cams.

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3.3 Registration

When purchasing Dewesoft, it comes with a license certificate looking like this in printed or electronic form. It

includes a serial number with all the bought options.

IMPORTANT:

It is the most important to select measurement hardware PRIOR to registering the software, otherwise the

registration will be valid only on this computer.


In the hardware setup enter the License key:

The registration page shows for which devices the license is valid. The software is can be used with:

- One single computer, such as a workstation or measurement instrument. The software is licensed to

computer MAC address(es). You are allowed to change the measurement hardware (in case of failure)

limited by the software license.

- Specific measurement hardware (such as AD card, CAN card, GPS receiver or other device). Software is

licensed to the serial number(s) of measurement hardware. You can use the software on any computer

(for example same USB measurement device with any laptop), but can’t change the measurement

hardware.

Online registration procedure

To register DEWESoft 7 software online , please connect your instrument PC to the internet (web browser should

be able to see www.dewesoft.org). Press the "Register online" button.

Offline registration procedure

If your instrument PC can not be connected to the internet, please use any other computer with internet

connection, and navigate to http://www.dewesoft.org/registration on our website and follow the registration

instructions there. This web site requires you to take the license file »License ID«.lic (in our demo case it would be

DW7_C6WP_G49T_CNS1.lic) from the System/V7_0 folder (for example D:\Dewesoft\System\V7_0) and register

it on the web page.

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After successfully registering the software, a following screen will appear:

If you have any other hardware

Press Ok to leave the Hardware setup screen.

Congratulations on successful installation of the software. Now we can make a first measurement.


4 First measurement

4.1 Setting up the system

When the hardware is configured, we can go to Acquisition – Ch. Setup. Here is the list of all of our channels.

On the first channel I have connected the strain gage sensor. When pressing Set ch. 0 button a setup screen

appear. Here we choose the bridge mode and select 20 mV/V range.

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Since I want to measure the weight, I can enter the N in the Units section, go to the Scaling by two points,

remove all the loads, press Calibrate from average for the first point. This will remove the offset. Next we can

apply a load of 5 kg, enter the 5 kg as the second point reference and press Calibrate from average for the

second point. This will measure the value of applied load and set scaling factor.

This shows the way of manual scaling. Alternative is to use the “smart” sensors equipped with the TEDS. A good

example of such a sensor/preamplifier is a MSI-THERM adapter which can measure temperature. Simply by

connecting the sensor it is recognized and the scaling is set automatically.

Now I have selected two channels of load and temperature. Please note that I have changed the channel names

and set them to Used.


If I have digital sensors like encoders, they must be connected to digital/counter inputs. I have a rotary encoder

and this need to set in Counter section of the channel setup.

I need to enter the channel setup by pressing the Set ch. CNT0 button. To set the encoder is very simple. I only

need to change the Basic application to Sensor and select Encoder-360 Sensor type.

Then we need to switch on the channels CNT0/Angle and CNT0/Frequency and we can leave the setups screen

with Ok button.

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A great feature for data documentation is using the video cameras. Here I use a simple web cam embedded in my

notebook. Please note that I needed to switch that on in the Hardware setup.

4.2 Measure and store the data

I can already start the measurement by pressing the Measure button.

I have already some prebuilt screens like Scope, Recorder or FFT, but I can easily modify them with going to

Design button. I will add some meters, recorder, FFT and video visual control on one screen to show all the

relevant channels exactly as I want to see them.


Now we can start storing with pressing the Store button. When enough data is acquired, simply press Stop.

4.3 Data analysis and reprocessing

Now we can already look at what we have measured. By pressing the Analysis button the last stored data is

automatically reloaded and we can use the yellow cursor to move through the data or press Play to replay the

data in original or faster/slower speed.

A really great feature is that Dewesoft is free of charge for analyzing the data, so you can give the data to your

customers or colleagues at work. They can download and use Dewesoft to review or reprocess the data in the

same way as we will do right now.

We can export the data to various data formats by pressing the Export button. Or we can print the data with Print

button on the top.

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But now we can do even more. All the math functions we could do online I can perform also offline by using

Offline math function.

For this simple example let’s just take one low pass and one high pass filter on the load measurement.

I can add the filters, set the parameters and observe that math channel shows the Waiting calculation notice.

I go back to Review and here the offline Math bath changed to Recalculate.

In case of big files where the calculation might take a long time, I can zoom in the interesting portion of data and

recalculate only for that area. I have added two recorders to show the filtered data.

In this way I can do advanced analysis of datasets after they are stored. A next step is to read the Dewesoft

Tutorials and learn about supported devices and processing capabilities.

Wish you lots of fun using Dewesoft, in case of any question please look at online forum or ask for support on

www.dewesoft.org . We are here to listen to your problems, comments and new ideas.

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