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TDM Excel Add-In for Microsoft Excel Download

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Filename: tdm_excel_add_in.exe
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Using the FREE TDM Excel Add-in for Microsoft Excel, you can load and work with TDM and TDMS files in Excel.

Supported Features:

  • The TDM Excel Add-In supports Excel 2003 and higher.
  • Each group in the TDM file is loaded onto a separate Excel Worksheet.
  • Each TDM file loaded into Excel creates a new Excel Workbook.
FILE EXTENSION: *.TDM; *.TDMS
DIRECTION: Read / ---
LAST CHANGE: July 23, 2008 [ 2.0.1.14 ]

 

 

Installation Instructions

  1. Download the attached file referenced in this document titled tdm_excel_add_in.exe.
  2. Double-click on the file tdm_excel_add_in.exe.
  3. Follow the installation dialogs.

Related Links:
TDM Excel Add-In for Microsoft Excel User Guide
Learn more about the TDM and TDMS format
Manage and process TDM and TDMS files with NI DIAdem
TDM Add-In for OpenOffice.org Calc

 

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Filename: tdm_excel_add_in.exe

Software Requirements


Application Software: DIAdem Development System 10.2
Additional Software: Microsoft Excel

 
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needs option to not load certain data
It would be very helpful if there was a property you could set that would cause it not to load particular data. For example, I have a file that has my spreadsheet data saved in it, but I also save images as a byte array. If there was a special group property you could set that would disable this application from loading the image data then it would stop excel from loading massive amounts of data.
- Sep 25, 2008

TDM Excel Add-in Capabilities
The currently posted TDM Excel Add-in works with Excel versions "2003 and higher", which includes version 2007. The currently posted TDM Excel Add-in does correctly import date/time channels into Excel-- note that Excel tracks date/time as the number of fractional days since about 1900. You may need to change the formatting of the datetime channel column in Excel to see the datetime information the way you want it. An error report has been entered for the TDM Excel Add-in for the 256 column limitation in Excel 2007. Hopefully a new version will be posted soon which removes this artificial limitation.
- Brad Turpin, National Instruments. brad.turpin@ni.com - Sep 24, 2008

How about a version for Excel 2007
- Sep 12, 2008

256 Channel limit
Note that there is a 256 channel limit (per tab) in Excel. This add-in will only display the first 256 channels. You can probably get around this by writing code to split the TDM file into multiple smaller files or create your own Excel converter VI that would place 256 channels per tab. Or you could just use DIAdem...you know you want to...all the cool people are doing it. (-;
- Andrew Soukup, SpaceX. asoukup@spacex.com - Mar 18, 2008

Exporing Data
I think it would be useful to have the possibility to build the excel file directly from LabView. Regards.
- LUCIANO MANARA, PERONI POMPE SPA. lucianomanara@peronipompe.it - Nov 20, 2007

Needs Timestamp Data (#2)
I confirm that a time stamp data column would be very useful, if not necessary, also for my company (we manufacture hydraulic pumps, mainly for chemical or oil and gas companies); in fact, also for legal/contract issues, we have to recall the exact time in which a variation of the conditions happens. Thank you very much for your attention.
- Luciano Manara, Peroni Pompe SpA. luciano.manara@peronipompe.it - Oct 31, 2007

Needs timestamp data
This would be very helpful for my application, but the file data is transported to excel without any timing information, making it difficult to graph the results correctly. It would be great if the first column on every sheet contained timestamp data for each row. I don't suppose the source code is available so that we can add improvements ourselves?
- Jason Dunham, SF Industrial Software, Inc.. dunham@sfis.com - Sep 6, 2007

 

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