This repo contains a short Python program that draws charts from the output of a CETR UMT tribometer.
The CETR is an obscure friction testing instrument, used at Sentient Science, Columbia University, and probably some other places.
The CETR's output is a proprietary .tst binary file, which must be converted to a .csv via the CETR's proprietary "Textify TST" utility. This program will not work on .tst files; instead, you must textify those .tst files into .csv's.
This program accepts as input the path to a directory, which ought to contain zero or more .csv files that are formatted in the standard CETR format. The .csv files can be nested arbitrarily deep in directories, and this program will happily find and plot them. The charts will be saved in the same folder that the .csv file is in, and the chart's title+filename will be the same as the name of the .csv file.
On Unix, run this code as follows:
$ python cetr_plotter.py
You need some dependencies, including numpy, matplotlib, and some sort of graphical windowing setup such as Tkinter. This is because the program has a GUI for selecting directories that contain the .csv files you are interested in plotting.
On Windows, you can probably run this from your IDE or via the Windows command line or Powershell.