I'm convinced about the advantages of the TDMS file format because meta information about a measuring process can be saved within.
Unfortunately I find that the handling is complicated if one wants to process the data stored in the TDMS further.
On the one hand you need the meta information to be able to interpret the measuring data to a later time. On the other hand the meta data and tree type of data storages
prevent suitable conversion of the binary data into excel so that calculations can be added easily.
For example having done 50 single measurements on one day results in 50 TDMS files. Then all these files have to be converted to Excel with the corresponding macro, have to be saved one by one and then
the imported data has to be copied to a template which contains precursors of the data plots and a more suitable sequence of columns. Also the meta data has to be separated from the measuring data.
This is a very tedious and time consuming process because it can only be automated partly with my currently available tools.
Is there a more efficient way to convert TDMS files to ascii which can deal with a larger amount of single TDMS files, producing all the Excel files automatically or importing the TDMS into an existant Excel table without opening a new one or letting one to configure the sequence of the columns in the resulting Excel or ....
Thank you in advance!
