This tutorial begins by assuming that you have a CMZ file for each subject/session from Visual3D. If necessary you can use our build CMZ feature or work through the Visual3D tutorial for building a CMZ file.
This tutorial can be completed with any CMZ file. One possibility is a data set from a Visual3D Workshop at a recent ASB meeting: V3D Workshop @ ASB.
To start, you need to tell Inspect3D where to look for your data. After opening Inspect3D:
Once you have loaded the library, the Group definition dialog will be activated. You now have the ability to automatically or manually define queries that will group the signals in your library. To do this:
Click on the Query Definitions icon on the toolbar
Click on Query Definitions to define group definitions for the first time and open the Query Builder Dialog
Alternatively, if you have previously saved query definitions, you can click on Load Query Def & Compute Groups to load a .q3d file containing query definitions and then automatically calculate the groups for the loaded library.
Either manually create group definitions by
Clicking the green addition button to name a new group and add it
While your new group is selected, click the green addition button to name and define a new sub-group
Repeat these steps until you have created all of your groups
OR Click Auto-Populate Groups
Accept the default settings and click Create
Once you have created your query definitions:
Click Calculate All Queries to apply the queries you have defined to the loaded library.
Close the Query Builder dialog. Note that if Inspect3D has not finished computing all of the groups then it will ask you if you want it to continue. Click Compute Groups.
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Now that the signals in the library have been grouped, it is now possible to visually examine them and begin exploring your data:
The Options dialog allows you to modify the plot options to determine what is displayed. For example, you can choose the number and layout of plots to display, change how lines are coloured and styled, and modify axis labels among many other things.
If you have multiple plots, then a gray bounding box will appear around the active plot, identifying which plot is currently being modified.
You can highlight a trace by left-clicking on it. This causes the trace to become more visually prominent than non-highlighted traces and produces a tooltip that includes:
A trace can be excluded from the plot by:
You can confirm that the trace has been excluded in the Workspaces widget: excluded traces will be marked with a red X and workspaces containing excluded traces will have their checkmark icon replaced by an X.
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Click Save Workspace As to save the work you've done so far. This saves the application workspace as an .i3d file, which is an XML file.
NOTE: If you have excluded data then your CMZ files are out of sync with your Inspect3D workspace at this point. This means that if you re-queried the loaded library, you would need to exclude the traces again. To avoid this, click the Update CMZ files icon on the toolbar to update your CMZ files at any point.