controller connection

[hamed71200]

Hi,

I have bought a stepper motor(http://www.newmarksystems.com/linear-positioners/nls4-series/)

and a controller (http://www.newmarksystems.com/motion-controllers/nsc-a1/).

How can I connect my controller to the labview???

I used find instrumentation driver in the software bt it cannot find controller driver. The stepper motor's company just gave me a .dll file and they said you can connect it to lsbview.

I would be gratefull if anyone can answer my question.

Regards,

Hamed

[smercurio_fc]

Their example programs provide LabVIEW examples. Did you look at them?

[hamed71200]

Thank you for your answer.

I don't know what is this .dll file for?

where is theses labview examples that you are talking about?

[smercurio_fc]

Right on the page for which you provided the link there is a link called "Libraries, Sample Code". If you download that file and uncompress it, you will find a "Sample Source Code" folder. In there are numerous examples. For instance, the "Serial" folder contains examples on communicating with the controller over a serial port, and has LabVIEW examples. The "USB" folder contains examples on communicating over a USB port. That example uses the DLL. 

[hamed71200]

I 'm sorry, I made a mistake.

The file extension is     .llb     not    .dll

what is this file for?

do I need the .dll file?

[RavensFan · Accepted solution]

An .llb file is a library of LabVIEW vi's "zipped up" into a single file.  LabVIEW can open it directly.

No you don't need a .dll.  You were the one who brought that up.

[hamed71200]

Thank you a lot for your attention and I am sorry, that I am bothering you again.

If I understand you correctly, for connecting stepper motor and its controller to labVIEW, the .llb file is enough and we don't need the .DLL file.

[RavensFan]

That's what the 2nd line of my message said.

[hamed71200]

Ok, I got it.

I want to program the stepper motor to move for specific distance with spercific speed and logging the position in every second.

Can you tell me waht should I do? I mean that can you explain me the process step by step?

Thank you

[hamed71200]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KT98-7B2E8

Should I do the same thing as this video?

I tried to do this, but I the labview cannot find the driver for controller.