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Beginners Guide to using LabChart

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Getting Started

Within the Welcome Centre of LabChart, you will be provided with a helpful getting started Tutorial with tips and tricks to help get you up and running quickly.

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Our range of interactive, hands-on courses and workshops reduce on-boarding time, and work to increase efficiency and output, helping you achieve your education and research aims, faster.

Online Training Course

Expand and deepen your knowledge of data acquisition and analysis with LabChart 8 through our online training course.

 

An ideal resource for those wishing to learn in their own time and pace, or looking for an option to train lab staff when social distancing is in place. This course is an online version of our 2-day in person training option via our own active learning educational platform, Lt. Course content includes:

  • Data acquisition basics
  • Filtering and smoothing
  • Using Chart, Scope and Spectrum Views
  • Advanced analysis features, such as Macros and Arithmetic
  • Training on each of the LabChart Pro advanced modules

A comprehensive and interactive way to unlock the meaning of your data.

Each lesson contains:

  • Learning objectives
  • Technique / feature overviews
  • Video-directed exercises with demo files
  • Interactive questions and answers

This option is currently available in North America, South America, UK, and the EU. If you are interested in further details or access to this course, please fill out the form below and we will be in touch.

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LabChart 8.1.11 (Mac)

  • Exporting or copying and pasting text now produces correct data for channels containing Cyclic Measurements calculation data in multi-rate files.
  • Fixed an issue where LabChart might unexpectedly close after adjusting a channel height in certain files.

LabChart 8.1.10 (Windows and Mac)

Mac and Windows

General

Links to the ADInstruments Forum have been removed.

Windows

  • Nihon Kohden device support
  • Fixed several issues when using a Nihon Kohden NH300 device:
    • Amplitude of signal in Input Amplifier now always matches Chart view.
    • Changing the transducer type parameter in the Input Amplifier now always causes the correct gain range, units and scale for that transducer to be applied.
    • Opening the Input Amplifier, or changing controls in the Input Amplifier, no longer cause either that input or other inputs to be disabled.

General

  • Includes necessary support for the new Non Invasive Cardiac Output extension which can be downloaded from Feature Manager.
  • Fixed issue where setting scale to the default range in Input Amplifier chooses incorrect range.
  • The date now correctly appears on all pages printed from the Scope View.

Mac

General

A new "File Name" Data Pad function is available under the Block Information section in the Data Pad Column Setup Dialog which returns the name of the file containing the current selection.

LabChart 8.0.9 (Windows)

General

  • Improved Arithmetic's handling of certain expressions that make use of event channels (such as when the output of Cyclic Measurements is used).
  • Improved the reliability of LCC devices during repetitive sampling.
  • Added improvements to support the Delsys Trigno Wireless system.

Channel Settings Dialog

The Units Conversion dialog options are now always enabled as appropriate when accessed from the Channel settings dialog.

Macros

The ManualStimulatorPulse example Macro has been removed from the Manage Macros dialog.

Japanese

Corrected the Data Pad column headings for Comment Time and Full Comment Text in the Japanese version of LabChart.

LabChart 8.1.0 (Mac)

General

  • The LabChart file format has been updated. As such, .adicht and .adiset files created with LabChart 8.1 cannot be opened in previous versions of the software.
  • Improved drawing of check boxes in the Input Amplifier dialog.
  • When importing text files in LabChart for Mac, it is now possible for the user to specify a value for the default sampling rate.
  • Improved performance when opening files without PowerLabs attached.

Channel Calculations

  • Cyclic Measurements event channel calculations now consistently draw out to the last event while sampling.
  • Improved scrolling performance in channel calculations.

Export

‘Use simple format’ can now be used in Export MATLAB.

LabChart 8.1.3 (Mac)

Stimulator

Users can now specify very narrow stimulator pulses.

Data Pad

Various improvements have been made to editing formulae and entering data in the Data Pad.

Welcome Center

Improvements have been made to the Welcome Centre functionality to better support the Experiments folder.

LabChart 8.1.6 (Mac)

General

  • Added support for new generation Octal and Quad Bioamps.
  • Added ‘synchrony’ arithmetic expression for showing synchronization between two event channels.
  • Fixed a bug where arithmetic expressions using another channel’s raw data weren’t always being loaded properly from settings files.

LabChart 8.0.2 (Windows)

Upgrading from a non-English version of LabChart using Feature Manager now installs the correct language version.

LabChart 8.0.7 (Windows)

The DMT Device Enabler now initializes correctly from LabChart.

LabChart 8.0.10 (Mac)

General

Added support for the Spirometry 2.5 Extension.

LabChart 8.1.2 (Windows)

General

  • General user interface and stability improvements.
  • Improved stability of modules when analyzing while sampling.

Chart and Scope View

  • Improved responsiveness of the Movie View marker.
  • Reinstated the ability to make a selection when sampling.
  • Reinstated Scope macro commands.

Import

Reinstated the ability to selectively import channels from EDF files.