mdfVisualize

View channel data from MDF file

Syntax

mdfVisualize(mdfFileName)

Description

mdfVisualize(mdfFileName) opens an MDF file in the Simulation Data Inspector for viewing and interacting with channel data. mdfFileName is the name of the MDF file, specified as a full or partial path.

Note

mdfVisualize supports only integer, floating point, and string data types in MDF file channels.

Examples

View MDF Data

View the data from a specified MDF file in the Simulation Data Inspector.

mdfVisualize('File01.mf4')

Input Arguments

mdfFileName — MDF file name

char vector | string

MDF file name, specified as a character vector or string, including the necessary full or relative path.

Depending on the location you are accessing, mdfFileName can take one of these forms.

Location	Form
Current folder or MATLAB® path	To access a file in the current folder or MATLAB path, specify the name of the file in filename, including the file extension. Example: "myMdfFile.mf4"
Other folders	To access a file in a folder other than the current folder, specify the full or relative path name in filename. Example: "C:\myFolder\myMdfFile.mf4" Example: "\dataDir\myMdfFile.mf4"
Remote locations	To access a file in a remote location, filename must contain the full path of the file specified as a uniform resource locator (URL) of the form: scheme://path_to_file/myMdfFile.mf4 Based on the remote location, scheme can be one of the values in this table. Remote Location scheme Amazon S3™ s3 Windows Azure® Blob Storage wasb, wasbs HDFS™ hdfs For more information, see Work with Remote Data. Example: "s3://bucketname/path_to_file/myMdfFile.mf4"

Example: 'MDFFile.mf4'

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced in R2019a

R2023a: Support for Remote File URLs

You can directly access MDF file data stored at remote locations, including Amazon S3, Azure^® Blob Storage, and HDFS.