Chemstation DAD full spectra data export: How to install?

[saraagno]

Dear everybody I am interested in exporting the entire 3d data from an HPLC-DAD Agilent 1100 Series controlled by Chemstation Revision A.09.03 software.

At the moment I can export as a .csv file only selected chromatographic traces and one by one.

I am aware that there is a macro in the user contribution library that should do the job and I have read here in the forum that someone make it work. I have tried to follow the instructions but I am not able to install it. It is necessary to add a line in the user.mac. But that file doesn't exists on my system. I have tried to create the file myself and add the line explained in the readme but I get an error in the inizialization of the Chemstation (error 40996).

Has someone addressed this issue and can explain to me how to export all my data from Chemstation?

Thank you in advance for help and suggestions.

sara

[tlahren]

I am slightly familiar with this macro in GC Chemstation and totally unfamiliar to LC Chemstation. If you have no "user.mac" file then try typing the following into the command line:

macro "export3d.mac", go

You should be able to copy/paste the above in and it will start the chemstation macro. If this doesn't work and says it can't find the macro then you may have to type the full path of the macro...

GC Chemstation eg.:
macro "C:\MSDChem1\msexe\export3d.mac", go
or whatever path you have the macro saved to...

There should be no need to "install" a certain macro. You just need to copy the .mac file into the Chemstation folder.

Hope this helps a little but I'm not sure it will.

[saraagno]

Thank you very much I succeed in making it working this way. I was just following the instructions in the folder before and didn't know how to make it work. Thanks very much for the answer.