The updateCMZs Dialog can be found on the main toolbar in Sift. This menu allows you to run Visual3D pipeline scripts to perform the following on your entire library:

1. Creating BAD events or tags to indicate traces that were excluded in Sift
2. Updating force assignments based on excluded traces
3. Creating events or tags to indicate traces that are included in Sift
4. Removing BAD events or tags that were created in the CMZ file by Sift

There are three methods for adding an event in order to exclude signals:

• Only exclude individual traces
  • This means an event, such as AnkleAngle_BAD will be created during the bad cycle and the group definition of AnkleAngle will now exclude any sequences containing AnkleAngle_BAD
• Exclude all traces for this side when any data is excluded
• Exclude all traces when data is excluded (regardless of side)
  • Creates a general event “BAD” and all currently loaded group definitions will now exclude any sequences containing BAD

It is also possible to add tags in order to exclude specific trials:

• A trial that contains excluded data will be tagged with the specified tag name

It is possible to update force assignments during specified cycles:

• For any groups that contain the specified text (ex. Force,GRF), delete force assignments during those cycles

Besides tagging data to be excluded, it is also possible to create a tag or event for all data that is included (i.e. not excluded).

If you have created events or tags to exclude data, it is always possible to remove these events or tags from your CMZ file.