04-13-2015 10:42 AM
I am trying to control a Thorlabs TDC001 DC servo motor with LabVIEW, which several others have posted about previously. I have had issues in creating the ActiveX object to open up the TDC001 control panel within LabVIEW. Thorlabs provides an APT Programming tutorial, but when I try to insert a new ActiveX object, the "MGMotor Control" is not listed. Has anybody else experienced this or had issues interfaceing the TDC001 with 64 bit LabVIEW?
I am running LabVIEW 14 64 bit on a Windows 8 64 bit machine, and have installed the 64 bit APT User software from Thorlabs.
Thanks,
Aaron
04-14-2015 09:16 AM
The driver that contains the MGMotor Control may not be supported in LabVIEW 64-bit. 64-bit LabVIEW has a lot of compatibility restrictions when compared to LabVIEW 32-bit. If you have LabVIEW 32-bit as an option, I would suggest opening it up to see if this is the case.