Is there a way to password protect motion controller settings?

[Robert_Hoffman]

Hello All:

I would like to keep unauthorized people from accessing my PID settings in MAX for my motion controllers, is there a way to password protect the settings in MAX?

Thanks,

Rob

[DJ_L.]

Hey Rob,

Currently, there is not a way to password protect your PID Parameters in MAX. What you can do is that you can export your Motion settings to an external file, and then you can later import those settings that have your old PID Parameters in it, which will then load all of your previous settings. But as far as password protecting your PID parameters, this feature is not currently available. I would suggest that you make a product suggestion if you would really like to see something like this in future releases of the NI-Motion driver software.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks, and have a great day.

Regards,

DJ L.

[Robert_Hoffman]

Thanks for the response.  The file is a good idea, for sure.  I also posed this question to NI, and they came back with an interesting solution.  Apparently there is a password protect feature for MAX 4.0 as a whole program that is not turned on by default.  I am attaching the executable that you should run to access the password feature - it wouldn't let me attach an executable (.exe), so I changed the extension to .zip.  Make sure to change the extension back to .exe.  This could be a good way to protect settings on machines that could be sensitive to device settings.

Rob