SpeaD 1.0 · Data Manager

Data Manager

The companion application that owns SpeaD’s database — materials, sizes, and what appears in the dropdowns.

The vocabulary of the whole program

The SpeaD Data Manager is a separate application, installed alongside SpeaD, that owns the database SpeaD reads: every material, every preset size, every winding architecture SpeaD can offer. Tables are grouped the way the design pages are — Voice Coil, Motor Parts, Soft Parts and Materials.

SpeaD Data Manager with the category tree and the VCID Sizes table — The Data Manager — category tree on the left, the selected table on the right.

Show what your line can build

Every dropdown in SpeaD is filled from a Data Manager table, and every table has a Show column. Untick a row and it stays in the database with its data intact, but SpeaD stops offering it. A factory can carve SpeaD down to what it actually builds — the conductors it stocks, the formers it can buy, the layer types its winders wind — and turn it all back on later. Hiding a row never alters a design that already uses it.

SpeaD Data Manager Layer Types table with an Include checkbox for each of 47 winding architectures — Layer Types — all 47 winding architectures, each with an Include checkbox.

Add your own sizes and materials

Add cone sizes with their Sd, preset coil diameters, former and collar materials, conductors, enamels and lead wires. Changes reach SpeaD as soon as the Data Manager closes, with no restart. The tutorial Adding Cone Sizes walks through it step by step.

Read the Data Manager chapter of the SpeaD Owner’s Manual for every control on the page.