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Projects and Global settings
This is part 2 of our QuickStart Guide to DEWESoft 7! It was written at the time of DEWESoft version 7.0.1,
however it will remain largely compatible with higher versions of the software. It is meant to help you reach
the next level of knowledge with DEWESoft. Part 1 focused 100% on the analog inputs, and using the
measure screens as they are. In Part 2, you will see how to congure DEWESoft the way that you like it both
at the highest possible level (Global level) as well as at the Project level -- and explain the difference. The
Project level is especially important to learn about, since it never existed before DEWESoft7.
NOTE : In this manual we will often refer to DEWESoft as “DS-7” as shorthand. There is no difference.
What is a Dewesoft Project?
You can consider a Project to be like a “hardware prole,” in that it denes the hardware that you will be
using with DEWESoft. It also contains exible settings that control how the system behaves. Let’s say that
you have a computer that you sometimes use a DEWE-43-V (USB connection), and other times you connect
a DEWESoft-NET ethernet based system, or other times yet, you use an ORION A/D card and rack of DAQ
modules outside your computer.
In DEWESoft6, there was only one global hardware setup, which you would have to change each time you
wanted to connect these different pieces of hardware to. But now with “Projects,” you can make and name
a hardware prole for each possibility. But a project denes more than just the hardware setup, as we will
learn in this QuickStart Guide.
To see your Projects, click the [Settings] button near the top-right corner of the DEWESoft window:
The rst item is called Project >
Click it to open the submenu, where you can see your existing Projects, and then some controls below them
for adding a new Project, renaming the active Project, removing a Project, etc.
If you have not visited here before, you probably have a single Project called Default (you always need to
have at least one Project, otherwise you would have no hardware setup!).