LabView driver for the Animations smartmotor SM2315D

[Adrie]

I am looking for a LabView driver for the Animations smartmotor SM2315D. Can anyone help me?

[Bob_Y.]

You might try here.
http://www.summerfiles.com/Eng/LabView/Labview.html

This was a link I found through Google. Disclaimer: I've never used this motor or the files in this link. By the way, it is Animatics not animations.

Hope that this helps,
Bob

[FredFred]

Did that LabVIEW vi ever work for the animatics motor?

-fred

[Adrie]

Yes Fred it works.

Adrie Pijpers

[Albert.Geven]

First I must say that these vi's worked immediately except for an earthing problem that generated framing errors (a loose wire that connected to the shield)

Thanks to the guys or girls from http://www.summerfiles.com/Eng/LabView/Labview.html  .

After that I really looked at the vi's.

And saw a lot of locking at the lowest level that is not needed when at the same time all the reantrant vi's are made normal vi's.

The use of color  (frontpanel and icon) is normally not a problem but this time I changed the colors before I got blind.

But worst of all was the errorhandling in these vi's.

A lot of vi's had an error dialog that in my view should be forbidden in a driver. Furthermore the serial IO was much more complicated than necessary.

I will be testing this library next week and will post back.

[Bill_5335]

Hi Albert,

I tried the VI's from Summerfiles for the SmartMotor 2315 and found that one thing didn't work.  The motor does not stop until it reaches a timeout or the software limits. It should stop (I think) with the value specified in the "Move Parameters" - "Position (mm)".  If I run the SM Tester, hit "go" then "stop" th motor stops immediately.  Then if I go into the block diagram, open the Sub VI (Go Button case) and start the sub VI, the motor stops at the position parameter.

Did you experience the same thing? If so, how did you correct it? 

Thanks,

Bill

[Jeff_Long]

Here's a link to a video of a machine controlling 6 Animatics motors simultaneously using that LabVIEW driver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkRdaBjqS0U

It was important to keep the driver VIs reentrant in order to make this work correctly.  The semaphores in the communication block only the VISA Resource during command-response couplets in case the VIs have multiple callers, (which might be the case in a manual configuration utiltiy).

[bharath.molakala]

HI all ,

The link given doesnt work. Dees anyone still have LabVIEW drivers for SM2315D.

Regards

Bharath

[Bill_5335]

I haven't worked with Labview for about 5 years, but I found this file I had. This is for the older version of the Smartmotor. 

Let me know if it works.  

[bharath.molakala]

Hello Bill,

You just send an Ini file and there is no Driver/VI there.