PCI-6013 Labview SE software support?

[Bob HSN]

I am a retired engineer trying to do some experiments measuring the motion of clock pendulums. Since I am operating on a limited budget, I chose to purchase a NI PCI-6013 DAQ card after consultation about its limitations with a NI support engineer. I had hoped to do my experiments using a copy of Labview student edition since the purchase of a full version of Labview is beyond my means. Unfortunately, Labview SE does not appear to support the 6013 DAQ card and installation of a NI-DAQ that supports the 6013 is not functional with Labview SE! NI support confirmed that the 6013 was unusable with Labview SE even though there is no clue that is the case in the online support files. NI support suggested I try the Labview 7.0 Express
Demo software until a student version of 7.0 is available but the demo software does not seem to support the PCI-6013. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Thanks for any help someone can offer.

Bob

[Sarah Thompson]

To preface my answer, here is some information that is located on our website ( FAQ for LabVIEW Student Edition). http://www.ni.com/labviewse/labviewse_faq.htm.

Can I get technical support for LabVIEW Student Edition?
There will NOT be any direct (voice or e-mail) technical support for the LabVIEW Student Edition. Students are asked to consult their instructors about their problems.

Note:  The LabVIEW Student Edition is available to students, faculty, and staff for personal educational use only. It is not intended for research or institutional use. For more information about institutional or research licensing, please follow this link for information on our Academic Site Licensing.

That being said, the reason the PCI-6013 won't work with the LabVIEW
6i Student Edition (SE) is that only an old and "modified" version of the NI-DAQ driver works with the SE. That board was not yet released at the time of that driver release, thus not supported in the SE. Apparently, that board will work in version 7 of the LabVIEW SE, provided that the appropriate drivers are installed. This can be found through the following KnowledgeBase (KB).

KB 2ZK6EHQJ
Drivers for LabVIEW 7.0 Express Student Edition
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/AA99FA8704D5E22686256D6A004464ED?OpenDocument

Keep in mind that you can program a DAQ board in other languages than LabVIEW such as C++, C, Visual Basic and .NET languages in you have any of these available to you.