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Charnwood Dynamics Ltd. Coda cx1 User Guide – Reference IV-4
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If an MDR file is opened in Codamotion Analysis:
a) the presence of calculated data is indicated in the data Summary View (Views:
View Summary information)
b) the calculated data is ignored (and cannot be graphed) - all data derived from the
measured data is re-calculated.
c) the calculated data in the file is over-written with new calculated data if the file is
saved with File: Save As..., or it is deleted from the file if it is re-saved with File:
Save (do this to reduce the size of data files) - there is no warning!.
MDR files cannot include video data.
The ‘MDR’ file extension is a convenient alternative to ‘MDF’ - it does not need to be
different.
PD Patient Data file
A text-format file storing the data entered into the Patient Data dialogue in
Codamotion Analysis (File: Subject/Patient Data... OK...)
A temporary store used to make it easy to load the same data into the Patient Data
dialogue of different data files of the same patient - accessed only via the Load
button on the Patient Data dialogue, but can be inspected, edited, or printed if
desired with any text editor.
Created with Save button on the Patient Data dialogue. Automatically named using
the Subject/Patient ID string (the first 8 characters (or up to the first space
character), followed by 'PD').
Read with the Load button on the Patient Data dialogue, if an appropriately named
PD file is present in the current directory.
PDB MDB Report Generator 'Patient Database' and graph definition file
A binary format file containing a patient database table and a set of graph definitions.
Readable only by the MDB Report Generator.
Normally, there is only one of these in use, and it is loaded automatically when the
Report Generator is started (if it was the previously opened PDB file).
Graph definitions are added to (or edited in) the PDB file when the Graph: Design...
command is used. Graph definitions include plot formulae which include data
channel names. These names must correspond to the data channel names defined
in the Codamotion Analysis Setup configuration which was loaded at the time the
(calculated) data was saved into the MDR file with the Save As... command.
CFG (Report.CFG) MDB Report Configuration file
A short text-format file which defines the RPT Report definition files available to the
MDB Report Generator. This determines the contents and ordering of the list of
Reports. This list shows the Reports in the same order as they appear in the
Report.CFG file, using the Report name defined in the Report definition file ([Report]
section, Name entry)