User Guide
Chapter 9 Reference Waveform    RIGOL 
MSO1000Z/DS1000Z User’s Guide    9-3 
To Set the Color 
MSO1000Z/DS1000Z series oscilloscope provides five colors (light gray, green, light 
blue, magenta and orange) to mark the reference waveforms of different channels in 
order to distinguish them. 
Press Current and use   to select any of the reference channels (Ref1-Ref10) 
enabled. Then, press Color to specify a different color for the reference waveform of 
that channel. The corresponding icon at the left of the channel currently selected will 
be filled with the specified color, for example, 
. 
To Reset the Reference Waveform 
Press Reset and the reference waveform returns to the position where the source 
channel waveform is located when the Save operation was executed. 
To Export to Internal or External Memory 
Users can also save the reference waveform to the internal Flash memory or external 
USB storage device. The file format of the reference waveform is “*.ref”. 
Press Export to enter the file store interface. Please refer to the relative descriptions 
in “
Store and Recall” to save the reference waveform to the internal or external 
memory. 
To Import from Internal or External Memory 
Users can also import the reference waveform stored in the internal Flash memory or 
external USB storage device to the internal memory. 
Press Import to enter the file recall interface. Please refer to the relative 
descriptions in “
Store and Recall” to import the reference waveform to the internal 
memory of the instrument. 










