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You may also be requested by service or support personnel to call up this panel should your
instrument require servicing and/or updates.
Instrument File Management
One of the key applications of the MRI PC Vision application, is to assist with managing trace files
generated by the MRI-3000. It is possible to store traces in the i
nstrument’s file system, and MRI PC
Vision provides utilities to handle them.
To begin file management, from the ‘File’ pull down menu, select “Manage Instrument Files”. This
brings up the PC Vision File manager:
This is a listing
of the files in your instrument’s file system. The .sys files belong to the system, and
should not be downloaded or deleted, unless instructed to do so by support personnel. The .RTL,
.SWR, and .VNA, files are Return Loss, SWR, and VNA trace (data) files, respectively. There may
also be .SET files, used for storing instrument setups, but those aren’t relevant to this discussion.
Any of these trace files can be loaded and displayed by PC Vision. Select the files you wish to
download (holding down Ctrl, Shift or both will allow you to select multiple files), and click
“DOWNLOAD”. MRI PC Vision will then download your trace files to the AEA Technology folder in
your Documents folder.
Once a file is downloaded from the instrument, you can view it in PC Vision b
y selecting “Load Saved
Instrument File”
