make a .lvm file from excel

[dzilber]

Hi,
 I know this is very easy to do but I have spent the last hour trying variosu things without success. I have a spreadsheet in excel which I need to read into Labview, as an .lvm, in order to create an arbitrary signal. Whats the best way to do this?

   Thanks,
    David

[Dennis_Knutson]

Save the excel file as comma or tab separated text. Then just use the Read From Spreadsheet File. If you want to use the Read LabVIEW Measurement File, you would still have to save the excel as text and you would have to match the format that it  expects. Do a Write LabVIEW Measurement File to see what the header is, etc.

[dzilber]

Ok, I got the .lvm file. The signal looks great under preview, in the express arbitrary signal generator. However, when I push run, I dont see anything on the graph. All I see is the very first point. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? I have nothing wired to the express vi other than an output graph.

[Dennis_Knutson]

I don't know what could be going wrong. Are both the x and y axis set for autoscale? Could you post the file or at least a portion of it?

[ugurkilic]

hi, ı have the same problem. How did you solve it?