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Programmatically Create Smaller TDMS Files

by: Member
‎01-13-2010 04:50 PM
Last Edited by: Member Example_Scrubber_Stephan ‎06-08-2017 10:58 AM

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    Software

  • LabVIEW

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Overview

This example demonstrates how to split large tdms files into smaller ones.

 

Description

This example shows how to take a large TDMS file and create a series of smaller TDMS files that include subsets of the same information. The iteration terminal is used to uniquely identify each TDMS File as ...parti.tdms.

 

Requirements

 Software

  • LabVIEW Base Development System 2012 (or compatible)

 Hardware

  • No hardware is necessary to use this example VI

 

Steps to Implement or Execute Code

  1. Download and open the attached file
  2. Run the program

 

Additional Information or References

Split TDMS File into smaller TDMS Files LV2012 NIVerified.vi - Front Panel.png

 

Split TDMS File into smaller TDMS Files LV2012 NIVerified.vi - Block Diagram.png

 

**The code for this example has been edited to meet the new Community Example Style Guidelines. The edited copy is marked with the text ‘NIVerified’. Read here for more information about the new Example Guidelines and Community Platform.**

A_Ryan
AES
National Instruments

Example code from the Example Code Exchange in the NI Community is licensed with the MIT license.

Comments
ColdenR
NI Employee (retired)
on
‎12-30-2011 09:42 AM
‎12-30-2011 09:42 AM

I created an example similar to this one that handles memory errors associated with trying to write files that are too large. For example, you could split a 2 GB TDMS file into 250 MB chunks using this other example, even if you don't have much memory available.

https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-20054

Colden