Tip of the Day 154: How to Send Small Bites of Data

We often get requests to help customers with some curious data: strange sequence inputs or anomalous pressure. What if you could quickly e-mail the interesting patch of data without having to upload monstrous files to the FTP site? The Analyzer has a simple tool that you can use for this purpose.

Here are the steps in graphical form.

This will place 3 or 4 files that begin with the name “export” in your mold / material / cavitation folder along with the others. You can then copy and paste just these files into an e-mail to send to us or to your customer. In this example they total about 6 MB (smaller when zipped). This is easily in the range of acceptable e-mail attachment sizes.

Warning: After sending you should delete the “export” files because they contain data that duplicates the data in the original files. This confuses the Analyzer.

Variations

1. There is a button on the file saver that lets you create a folder somewhere else on your computer. You can use this to keep your exported data separate from the original to avoid confusion or long file searches.
   
   
   
    


2. You don’t have to use the name “export”. You can give it a descriptive name like “Mold 474 Integral Drop-Out”. Just remember to send all files by that name together.
   
    


3. If you export another section of ph2 data to the same file name the exporter will append the new data to the original file. Thus you can take several pieces of data and build a data file that tells a story.
   
    


4. If you have run an experiment and want to export just the data for which you entered part measurements (with the “Measurement Editor”) you can click the “Export only those shots with part measurement entries”. This lets you create a smaller, contained file with only the experimental data without the startups and other unnecessary information.
   
    

Tip of the Day 93: Uploads

Tip #92 explained how to download files from RJG’s FTP site. Here is the basic scheme to send data or other files to RJG using windows file explorer.

1. Select and copy the files or folder that you want to send from your computer (or eDART™ Data Manager)


2. Open RJG’s ftp site with Explorer by typing in ftp.rjginc.com


3. From Explorer’s menu bar under „File“ log in using the user name (usually „rjg_data“) and password that RJG support gives you.


4. If RJG people have prepared a folder for you on FTP site double click to open it.


5. Right click and paste the data to the FTP site.

Details:


First find the data you wish to send. Here you see the way the EDM data looks on your network. When you select the mold folder (mold #100 in this case) you can see all of the process data files on the right. These end in „.ph2“ (more to come in a later tip). Select any files you wish to send using shift or control keys and the left mouse. These files are named base name for the date and time at which they started. Then click the right mouse over them and select „Copy“

Next type in ftp.rjginc.com in the address line (followed by [Enter]). As in tip #92 this takes you to RJG’s anonymous ftp site. In order to put data on the ftp site you need to log in by selecting „File“ on the menu bar and the „Login As…“

After you enter the user name and password from RJG you will see our data upload site. Usually the customer support person will have provided a folder for you into which the put the data („Customer X data“ in this example). If there is no folder you may paste the files directly in to the data site.

When you click „Paste“ the files begin copying and then appear in the folder on the FTP site. When they are finished you may close Explorer and inform RJG that the files are there.

Tip of the Day 92: Downloads

For transferring large files to and from RJG we have distributed an FTP^† program named „Filezilla“. This was free software and not a little confusing to learn, not to mention its other quirks. Here is a simpler method for those who would like to try a simpler method and are familiar with the windows file explorer. You can also use your web browser (Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) but I prefer the file explorer because it has information about dates and times etc.

The simple story:

1. RJG support people place a file that you need on our „anonymous“ FTP site (no log-in required).


2. You open RJG’s ftp site with Explorer by typing in ftp.rjginc.com
   


3. Copy the file or folder you want and paste it to a folder on your computer.

That’s it.

Next tip: Uploading data (which requires a log in)

^†FTP: /F-T-P/, 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol (set of codes and commands) for transmitting files between systems on the Internet. 2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol.

The eDART™ also uses the FTP method to send its data files to the eDART Data Manager

For those who would like a more detailed explanation…

Open Explorer from the „Start“ button on the windows toolbar:

In the address bar of the explorer type in our ftp site address: ftp.rjginc.com and then hit [Enter]

This will open up the anonymous RJG web site. This data area contains a mixture of things that change from time to time that are set up by RJG support for download to specific customers.

Today among the various items „eDART Data Extractor_2.3.exe“. This is the installer for Data Extractor. For example you might want to download this file to your computer and run it to install Data Extractor. Right click the mouse over the file and select „Copy“. Then open the folder on your computer in which you wish to put it. Over the right pane click the right mouse and select „Paste“.