Measurement Studio v6, NiVisaTulip.dll and the Agilent 82357A USB/GPIB interface

[ww1]

Hi

I am using an Agilent 82357A and I am considering using Measurement studio V6 for VB.
I have read the similar issue stated on your forum "Agilent USB GPIB - 82357A Problems" and it says that you must enable NiVisaTulip.dll in MAX. Is this the same in Measurement Studio V6 for VB or should it reccognise the Agilent VISA?

Cheers
Wayne

[Dan_Mondrik]

Measurement Studio, like LabVIEW, will recognize any valid VISA installation and work fine with it. In general, you do not have to do any special configuration for these application environments to use any VISA.

The issue at hand here is having both NI-VISA and Agilent VISA installed simultaneously. In this case, yes, you must enable the NiVisaTulip Passport, which is disabled by default.

Dan Mondrik
National Instruments

[carlos]

Please help.  I am using the "82357A" and the "Devices and Interfaces" menu does not show the USB/GPIB device  "82357a".  The note says that adding the "Tulip" passport would make it be recognized by MAX.  This is not working for me.

NI visa and Agilent visa Interactive controls boths show the GPIB resources i.e "GPIB0:4:INSTR" for my instrument connected to the "82357" USB interface.  NI-MAX also sows the this Alias in the MAX-Software-Visa menu.  The problem is that LabWindows CVI Function Panels that are base on gpib 488.2 can not find the device.  If I use a function panel that uses the IVI, those panels work.  I do not have IVI style function panels for all my instruments.

I have an IVI style Function Panel for Agilent 34970A.

I need an IVI style Function Panel for HP 3488A switch control unit.

I need an IVI style Function Panel for  HP 3478A DMM.

OR... I need a way for my older 488.2 based fuction panels to recognize the devices connected to the "82357A" interface for GPIB.

HELP

[Dennis_Knutson]

Answered here. Multiple posts are really annoying.