Documentation and examples Softmotion engine

[schpongo]

I'm a student and writing my bachelor thesis and for which I need to configure a 3 axis motion system in LabVIEW. After having worked through a book for the basics of LabVIEW I would like to dive into the motion system. 
But I'm having trouble finding examples and documentation concerning the softmotion engine. 
When searching for examples with the search term "softmotion" the results are rather limited. I've found some getting started documentation, but that is also rather brief.

I must be missing something.

What would someone do who purchased the software package to achieve a similar goal. There must be some sort of tutorial or complete guide.

I would greatly appreciate some links or hints were I could find further information.

[Christoph_D]

Hi,

what about that?

Using the NI SoftMotion Axis Interface - National Instruments - 372597a.pdf
https://www.ni.com/docs/en-US/bundle/372597a/resource/372597a.pdf

Otherwise please list the ressources you already found and what you are searching for.

Best regards,

Christoph

[JavinD]

There may be examples or sample projects that you can use for your specific hardware as well. I had a similar issue with my cRIO and my NI-9503 modules, but found that there was a multiaxis (4-axis) example with the appropriate VIs included. I was able to use this to figure out my own motion system. I'd check for something similar in either the Example Finder or in the LabVIEW project templates with whatever hardware you're attempting to use.

[schpongo]

Hey,

I already found those two documents.

It is a bit unfortunate, that some of the referenced examples don't seem to exit anymore or are located elsewhere.

Furthermore I found:
- CompactRIO Developer's guide

- myRIO course books  
- Some of the online training's (core 1 to 3), to which I have access through my university 

I would assume, that if the course RT1, RT2 or FPGA don't show up there, then I don't have access to them?

Furthermore I don't think I have the ability to test little programs, as the hardware because it is wired in the system.
A more specific and complete documentation on the softmotion engine would have been great, but it seems like I need to work trough the given examples. 

But thanks for the help.

[Karl-G]

The CompactRIO Developer's Guide is the best resource currently for a high-level view of SoftMotion and a description of its functionality. Using Simulated Axes, you can fully test the API with examples and your own user code if interacting with hardware isn't possible during the early stages of development. Later, you can bind these axes to the actual hardware and re-use the same code.

[schpongo]

Thanks for the answer. 
It is good to know that I'll be able to simulate some things.