LabVIEW
Looking for some help/advice on LabVIEW
Good Morning Laura,
The function of well written drivers is to isolate you from some of the details of communicating with the instrument. There are examples included with the age441x.zip drivers file on NI's site that show how to make some basic measurements with the 4419, and it (the driver download) appears to have a number of the lower level instrument utilities. To use it from your diagram's function palette unzip the downloaded age441x file to the inst.lib directory under your "National Instruments\LabVIEW X" directory. Then, opening LabVIEW, click on Tools, Advanced,Edit Palette Views. There will be another floating subwindow Edit controls and Functions Palettes. Its subwindow should be set for "Advanced". On the "Functions" palette click on the "instrument I/O" icon, then the Instr drivers. You should see an icon for the "AGE441X Po.." On the "Edit controls and Functions Palettes" subwindow click on "Save Changes" if the AGE441X icon was visible, then you should be able to find the drivers in the istruments function palette on your diagram.
Putnam
The function of well written drivers is to isolate you from some of the details of communicating with the instrument. There are examples included with the age441x.zip drivers file on NI's site that show how to make some basic measurements with the 4419, and it (the driver download) appears to have a number of the lower level instrument utilities. To use it from your diagram's function palette unzip the downloaded age441x file to the inst.lib directory under your "National Instruments\LabVIEW X" directory. Then, opening LabVIEW, click on Tools, Advanced,Edit Palette Views. There will be another floating subwindow Edit controls and Functions Palettes. Its subwindow should be set for "Advanced". On the "Functions" palette click on the "instrument I/O" icon, then the Instr drivers. You should see an icon for the "AGE441X Po.." On the "Edit controls and Functions Palettes" subwindow click on "Save Changes" if the AGE441X icon was visible, then you should be able to find the drivers in the istruments function palette on your diagram.
Putnam
Good Morning Again,
What keeps crashing? LabVIEW? What version are you running? If you look in MAX (the Measurement & Automation icon that should have installed with LabVIEW you can see what software has been installed, including the version. You need to have the NI-Visa software to work with the drivers that I looked at on the NI site, and NI 488.2 software installed to use GPIB as well (I think that a previous post mentioned that). You should also be able to see the GPIB board listed under Devices and Interfaces. I don't happen to have a GPIB board installed at the moment (should in a couple of days) so I can't remember if you can actually exercise the GPIB and attached devices, but I seem to recall that you can, so you can see if your meter, etc., are working.
National Instruments has made a major portion of their industrial niche on their GPIB "stuff" so it plays pretty well together, if it is installed and configured correctly.
Hope this helps,
Putnam
What keeps crashing? LabVIEW? What version are you running? If you look in MAX (the Measurement & Automation icon that should have installed with LabVIEW you can see what software has been installed, including the version. You need to have the NI-Visa software to work with the drivers that I looked at on the NI site, and NI 488.2 software installed to use GPIB as well (I think that a previous post mentioned that). You should also be able to see the GPIB board listed under Devices and Interfaces. I don't happen to have a GPIB board installed at the moment (should in a couple of days) so I can't remember if you can actually exercise the GPIB and attached devices, but I seem to recall that you can, so you can see if your meter, etc., are working.
National Instruments has made a major portion of their industrial niche on their GPIB "stuff" so it plays pretty well together, if it is installed and configured correctly.
Hope this helps,
Putnam
