04-17-2025 01:57 PM
Greetings, I'm a professor at a Community College (3rd careeer after 11 years USN + 25 years in industry as a Software and Control Systems Engineer). Long-time self-taught LabVIEW user. I am currently trying to add a new skillset to my LabVIEW arsenal, using the Co-simulation capability to allow students and myself to generate circuits in MultiSIM and then run them from LabVIEW to create circuits for the Data Acquistion, Solid State Electronics, Electrical Construction, Linear Electronics and Industrial Electronics courses I teach. I jumped through the hoops with IT today to add the Control Design and Simulation module. I'm running LabVIEW Professional v 21.0 64-bit on this machine, and Multisim 14.2. The install went fine, but when I right-click in the Block Diagram, and select Control and Simulation/Simulation/External Models, there is only one function listed (External Module) There should be at least 2 options, including External Model and Multisim. Can anyone tell me what I'm missing or doing wrong? I realize this functionality has been depricated in the latest versions (Nice Job NI, guessing that's thanks to their acquistion by Emerson), but I undertand that in v22 and older versions, it should still work.
04-18-2025 02:04 AM - edited 04-18-2025 02:16 AM
Hi
The Co-Simulation plugin was officially last supported in LabVIEW 2016. And it was only for the 32 bit version. NI published this :
However, it is possible to force it installed into newer versions of LabVIEW. But I don't remember anymore how that was done. You could start here :
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Co-simulation-Multisim-LabView/m-p/4047808
https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019YwGSAU
Regards
04-18-2025 02:38 AM
Hi again
A Co-Simulation trickery installation procedure to support later LabVIEW versions than 2016 is described here :
https://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Labview-2017-Co-simulation-Multisim-VI/td-p/3663915
Regards