Problems with Keithley 6517A and LabView

[Phil124]

Hi,
i want to connect a Keithley 6517A High Resistence Meter with a KUSB-488B cable to my PC. The software should capture the values from the resistance measurement. My problem is that the supplied software doesn't recognize the Hardware. I have installed all drivers.
What can i do to fix this problem?
Maybe anyone know an alternative software.

Thanks for the help

[Dennis_Knutson]

How about alternative hardware? This is an NI site. You don't have NI hardware so I'm not sure why you would be posting here. Do you even have NI software? You say the software is provided. That would imply provided by Keithley so I would suggest you ask them about the problem you are having with their hardware and software.

[Albert.Geven]

Which programming environment are you using?

[crossrulz]

The OP is using LabVIEW.  I upconverted a library that was written in 4.0.2.  http://forums.ni.com/t5/Version-Conversion/conversion-Library-from-LV-4-0-2-to-LV-2012/m-p/2321720#U...

[Dennis_Knutson]

With that driver, then what I said about alternative hardware is one option. The driver uses the low level GPIB functions and they only work with an NI GPIB controller. So, get rid of the Keithley USB-488 or rewrite the driver to use VISA functions.

[Albert.Geven]

Here are some 6517A visa vi's

[SpwhiteUMN]

Thank you for the 6517 Visa .vi's.

I have a follow-up question, let me outline the problem. I have downloaded the 6517A driver and it contains the sub.vi 'GPIB Send Message'. How do I modify this sub.vi (and other sub.vi's) to read/write data with the VISA pallette rather than the GPIB pallette? It seems like the wiring is different. 

Will this strategy work? Simply exchanging all GPIB calls for VISA calls then running it as usual?

Thanks again,

Scott 

[SpwhiteUMN]

Attached is the library of .vi's I'm interested in modifying with the VISA pallette (instead of the GPIB palette). I think it is just a matter of changing the GPIB Send Message and GPIB Receive Message files.

[Albert.Geven]

You can see in my vi's how to do this.

So the examples are available.