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Copying Channel Settings
You just learned a lot in setting up that channel. You set the actual hardware range/lter, then moved left to
the channel name, description, units, and possibly set the display range, then moved down to do the scal-
ing… all the while keeping an eye on the reference bar graph to ensure that this channel was set correctly.
At this point you might be worrying that this is a lot of work to do on every single analog channel. Is there a
shortcut you can take to speed up the process?
Yes! Normally you will have several channels whose congurations are very similar. Here is our set up
screen:
OK, you just set the rst channel up … and the next three channels are going to be very similar. Their hard-
ware settings will be the same, and possibly even their scaling, display scale settings, etc. How do you copy
those settings from channel 0 to the next three channels?
Easy. Click the rst box in the SLOT column of the channel that you want to copy:
When you click the SLOT box of any channel, it pops up the Copy/Paste menu. Only Copy is active, since
there is nothing to paste yet. Click Copy.
Now click on the SLOT box of channel 1, the next channel down. Suddenly the Paste menu item is active, so
click it to paste the settings from Channel 0 to Channel 1:
Now you get some very nice choices, which make the copy/paste process very exible. Here is what each of