Labview basic vis for controlling Newport ESP6000 controller and 3 axis stages

[kdpatel]

I have looked in Ni.com's development zone and cannot find anybody who
has created or developed Labview code for controlling a ESP6000
Newport controller. Newport provides the basic level dll for use with
Labview. Has anybody developed a good basic LabView VI implementing
these dlls?

Any advice and suggestions on how to proceed would be greatly
appreciated.

K Patel

[crelf]

This is a library I just quickly put together from what I remember when I used to used the ESP6000 and Unidrive systems - All you need to do is call "Open and Initialise Axes" (note the Australian/UK spelling!) and then home each axis individually, and then call any of the other commands (Move Relative, Move Absolute, Stop, etc) - note: sue to an hardware limitation, you can only home one axis at a time, and that could take a while!

*** The DeveloperZone is not letting me upload the library - email me (address below), and I'll email it directly to you.

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Christopher G. Relf
Certified LabVIEW Developer

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[kdpatel]

Very quick response and exactly the help I need

Thanks

Max stars

[crelf]

Were you able to use the library I sent you? Did it work okay?

[akcay]

Have you ever used the data acquisition feature of the ESP6000? If yes, I like to see an example VI which performs the data acquisition task with ESP6000 beside controlling the motion of the stages.

thanks.