Part four of the IQANdesign tutorial is now available, this one is introducing some of the Qcode sytax:

There are many applications that require a variation in units. Currently if I want to display a pressure gauge, I would need to create a PSI pressure gauge, and a BAR pressure gauge. Then control the visibility properties of the gauge to display the desired gauge.

It would be helpful to tie an integer parameter to the "Min value" and "Max value" of the gauge control or bar control. By doing this it would also be necessary to change the "Tick count" value with an integer parameter. This way the programmer would only need to make one gauge and control the properties inside the "Display application" as opposed to multiple gauges.

I have been having issues today after being able to upload programs perfectly all day. Now, all of a sudden I get this no application error. I cannot upload a program no matter what I try in IQANrun7. I tried uploading in safe mode but had no luck. When I try to upload the window pops up and disappears.
 

Can anyone point me in the direction of the iqan design 2.63 software download? I've been sent an .ida file and cannot open it in the more current versions. I went to the software downloads website and was unable to find any links or forum posts that were related to this. Thanks for your help ahead of time!

We have had multiple issues using ratiometric sensors that end up sending voltages below the 0.5 threshold. If the input drops to 0.250 then the system throws a VIN low error. The error value only exists for an instant. The sensor output is jumpy. I wish we could add some averaging, signal stabilization or add a delay on the error to filter out these events. Or maybe we could define the low error value instead of using the minimum/2. 

In retrospect, it realize I could have set the range to 0 V and extrapolated the value of the output to keep the calibration the same, but I cannot do this on an existing program because the min and max outputs are not part of the calibration. 

Does Parker IQAN team has any plan/interest to implement CAN-FD (Flexible Data Rate) capability in the future ? 

We are starting to get a large fleet of equipment out in the field. currently to update a md4/mc43 pair we need to wire to the md4 and push the software. This is not convenient because the machines are all over USA. When I use the G11/12  locally we may get 7 of 10 to complete and update, the other 3  lock up the md4.  Doing an update remotely i think would be asking for trouble.  is there an easy way to push updates to people? currently the reliability isn't there. Thanks

Request to add ability to open more than one measure file at once. Useful when comparing two or more measure files.

It appears that it is not possible to mirror an actual connected iQAN display in iQAN simulate. I'm trying to capture images of what certain portions of our program would look like given different conditions on the machine. For the majority of items I'm able to use simulate on its own, but for heavily CAN driven display pages it's much harder, if not impossible, to simulate. It'd be very easy to create the different conditions on the machine itself, but taking pictures of the MD4 for user documentation just doesn't look as professional as screenshots.

with XA2/XS2 as legacy models in IQANdesign 6 and 7 would we be able to have added legacy support for the XC10 to allow software support. this would help with avoiding rewriting software from newer versions to IQANDesign 5 as units get redesigned to phase out outdated controllers. Additionally with the release of the MD5 what would the legacy support of the MD4 when it is eventually phased out.