Hi, I am a hardware test engineer and I am trying to learn VB to do some lab level automation communicating through gpib. For right now to start I just want to be able to set up, change around some settings, source, and measure using a Keithley source meter. I have read through the NI-488.2 manual and have looked at the different commands/examples as well as the Keithley manual and their list of commands. From the way I am understanding it if I wanted to write information to the meter I would send for example a gpib write command (ibwrt) which you tell which gpib card you are talking to as well as which ever command to send to the source meter?? I am confused though.....should every single command that I send to the keithley meter be sent using the 488.2 gbip commands?? If anyone has a really basic example they can refer me too, or if anyone has any thoughts comments on how to begin that would be great. I have been looking all over this site and the net trying to find some basic programming examples in VB using gpib but I cannot find anything. Also which version of VB would be best for data acquisition through gpib? I know I could do this in LabView as well and would be easier to learn, but nobody at my company uses LabView only C, MATLAB, and VB. Thanks for your help!
