Will Labview Student Edition work with DAQCard AI-16E-4?

[Iamdabobo]

I am using a DAQCard AI-16E-4.  I have installed Traditional NI-DAQ 7.4.4, which seemed to be the most recent driver version for this card.  I did not seem to have any problems, until I realized that VI Logger Lite does not support Traditional NI-DAQ devices.  Unfortunately VI Logger Full is far out of my buying capabilities.

This is connected to an SCB-68 connector block, using a Columbia Charge Amplifier with a Columbia Piezoelectric Accelerometer.  I need to be able to collect data points, that's all.

I found myself faced with several alternate solutions:

1. create my own program using C++ or VB (a pain, but probably possible)
2. Get Labview Student Edition (the only program in my price range...I'm a 10th grader and this is borrowed equipment)

So my questions are
1. Will Labview Student Edition work properly with this device?  Will I need to do anything special because it's a traditional device?
2. If it will not work, can you lead me in the right direction to create a program to gather data points?  I have Visual Studio 2005 with support for VB and C/C++ and I'm proficient in VB, and know a little of C.
3. Is there an alternative (cheap) program that I could use for this?

[Iamdabobo]

And I"m sorry that I seemingly put this thread in the completely wrong place. 

If a mod would like to move it to the proper location, that would be dandy.  🙂

[BrowningG]

Hello Lamdabobo,

Thanks for contacting National Instruments. 

The LabVIEW Student Edition will work with the Traditional DAQ driver.

The Traditional DAQ driver includes examples for Visual Basic.  The path to these examples can be found in the readme file. 

Please post back if you have any questions.  Have a great day!

[Iamdabobo]

Alright thanks for the help

I have labview 8.5 Student Edition installed now.  However, I cannot figure out for the life of me how to make it work with my card.  I see the card in MAX, and the tests I run work fine; i can see data coming from my instrument.  My problem is how to import this data into Labview...every single manual or help file I see says about using DAQmx which of course I can't use.

Anything to point me in the right direction?

Thanks

[BrowningG]

Hello Lamdabobo,

The best way to get started with programming with Traditional DAQ is to look at some examples and go from there. 

Since you installed Traditional DAQ before you installed LabVIEW, the Traditional DAQ API may not have installed support for LabVIEW.  After you have installed LabVIEW, run the Traditional DAQ installer again and ensure that support for LabVIEW is installed. 

There are several examples for using Traditional DAQ in LabVIEW that are included when the driver is installed.  The NI Example Finder can be accessed from LabVIEW by going to Help->Find Examples.  The Traditional DAQ examples can be found by selecting to browse according to directory and are located in the folder daq.  The different example types are sorted by folder and a good place to start would be the examples located in the anlogin folder.  The example Cont Acq&Chart (hw timed).vi will continuously acquire voltage from your DAQ card and plot it in a chart.  This is similar to running a test panel in Measurement and Automation Explorer. 

Please post back if you have any questions.  Have a great day!