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68 Agilent VEE - Practical Graphical Programming
3 Instrument Controls
Exercise 3.4 - Integrating National Instruments Hardware
This exercise will demonstrate how to set up National Instrument drivers
in VEE Pro.
Open your VEE program and clear your Work Area and maximize Main.
Using National Instruments Data Acquisition in VEE Pro
1 Go to Menu Bar => Help; search for "Using NI"; select "Using NI Data
Acquisition in VEE".
2 Load the National Instruments library if it is not there already.
3 Select Menu Bar => I/O => Instrument Manager.
4 Highlight My Configuration; Click on Add.
5 Select NIDAQ interface; Click on OK.
6 Select NI- DMM Driver Type; Click on OK.
7 Click NI- DMM Driver under Create I/O Object; Place the object in Main;
then double- click on its transaction bar to Select the Function Panel;
see Figure 3- 9.
NOTE
There are six different National Instruments driver libraries supported in VEE:
niDMM, niSCOPE, niDAQ, niDAQmx, niSWITCH, and niFGEN.
NOTE
Help is available by clicking on Function Help.