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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 8.1.5 (Windows)

General

LabChart is now fully compatible with Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

LabChart Known Issues

Windows

  • LabChart 8.1 or later do not support Windows Classic theme.
  • In the Preset Comment "Event Configuration" dialog, if "Comment only on first stimulus" is checked, the comment is disabled for the entire record after the first pulse.

Mac

  • If you are on OS X v10.11 (El Capitan) and have already upgraded to LabChart 8.1.2 - Please upgrade to 8.1.3 here on our website rather than in feature manager. You can then proceed as normal for all future upgrades.
  • There are some features that were present in LabChart 7 that are not currently included in LabChart v8.1. Click here for more information.
  • The ADInstruments Blood Flow Meter is occasionally initialized with only one channel enabled. The user can manually enable the second channel.
  • For machines that have high-resolution Retina displays, users may encounter responsiveness and stability issues when using the Scope View.

LabChart 8.1.9

Mac and Windows

General

  • While recording, comments can now be moved without issue.
  • Arithmetic variables can now be used in Arithmetic channel calculations on systems that use European region localisation.
  • Fixed an issue where Scope pages names were forgotten in certain saved files.
  • Fixed issue where the Stimulator could produce an extra half cycle beyond the number of cycles requested, at some frequencies, such as 500 Hz.
  • In order to assist with data recovery in situations where a saved data file is lost or damaged, a fixed number of the most recently recorded data files are now retained as backup.
  • Fixed an issue affecting documents recovered via disk buffer recovery. LabChart now prompts the user to save the file when LabChart is closed.

Windows

General

  • Fixed several instances of incorrect wording relating to the Spectrum feature with Japanese and Chinese versions of LabChart.
  • While recording, Scope in comment mode now updates immediately to show the correct list of pages each time a comment is deleted.
  • The list of recently opened files in the Welcome Center and File menu now updates immediately when a file is closed.
  • Fixed an issue preventing use of milliseconds as the time unit for Max Repeat Rate within the Stimulator panel if the Isolated Stimulator is being used.
  • The Isolated Stimulator Current parameter can now be adjusted in increments that are multiples of 0.1 mA. Previously, it was limited to being multiples of 0.2.
  • Fixed a LabChart stability issue when increasing channel count and applying channel calculations from within the Channel Settings dialog.
  • Fixed a usability issue affecting renaming Scope pages.

Improvements

  • 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.

Mac

General

  • The data scale in the Input Amplifier dialog now correctly adjusts as the hardware range is changed.
  • Fixed an issue when entering a fixed duration in milliseconds within the Sampling Dialog.
  • When modifying an existing units conversion, LabChart now always looks at the underlying raw data.

LabChart 8.0.6 (Windows)

General

  • The Simple Data File SDK bundled with LabChart now supports both 32 bit and 64 bit programs that can read and write LabChart files.
  • Japanese and Chinese versions have improved interface layout and translations.
  • Improved the display of data in the Units Conversion dialog when the current file contains data with channels recorded at different rates.

Channel Calculations

  • Improved the accuracy of the Spectral Edge Frequency Data Pad and Channel Calculations.
  • Improved reliability when sampling many short blocks using event related Channel Calculations.

Chart and Scope View

  • Chart View now displays sampling speed and gain ranges when the mouse is over the right-hand parameters region.
  • Improved reliability when editing comments in the Chart View.
  • Improved behavior when sampling with two documents open to ensure the Start and Stop buttons display correctly in each document.
  • The maximum allowed time compression for the Chart and Scope Views has been increased to 500k:1.
  • Saving as ADIDAT now supports saving the Chart View selection range. This is the same behavior as Saving as ADICHT.
  • Improved reliability when using Multiple Add to Data Pad to add data using comments on an averaged page in Scope View.

Sampling

  • Added support for documents to be opened (or created) while another LabChart document is sampling.
  • Improved behavior when the default Stimulator settings are used to ensure the Stimulator starts at the start of each new block in repetitive fixed duration sampling mode.

Export

  • Export As Axon no longer shows an error message when "All" is selected in the Channels drop-list of the dialog.
  • Improved scaling of data by Export As Axon for channels where the range has been changed between blocks.
  • Export As Axon now saves comments in the correct positions when multiple channels are saved.

LabChart 8.0.9 (Mac)

General

  • Improved Arithmetic's handling of certain expressions that make use of event channels (such as when the output of Cyclic Measurements is used).
  • The Input Amplifier Dialog in LabChart for Mac now always displays the same default settings in a new document as Windows.

Channel Settings Dialog

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

LabChart 8.1.1 (Mac)

LabChart is now compatible with Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

LabChart 8.1.3 (Windows)

Export

When exporting a selection to IGOR, users can now export comments.

Data Pad

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

Japanese

Various corrections have been made to the Japanese translations.