Keyence laser marker

[Matt_S.]

Does anyone have any experience with the Keyence line of laser markers in labVIEW? I'm working on creating a driver for this instrument, but the manual seems to be a bit of a pain to get started with. Just wondering if anyone has seen a working instrument driver for one of these instruments.

Thanks!

-Matt

[Ficare]

Hello,

 I have same problem as you did a few months ago : how did you manage it ?

Thanks !

Phil

[Matt_S.]

We ended up just writing several VIs to talk to the laser. The manual has an ok set of commands for the laser, but it took a lot of guess-work to get everything sent correctly. It's a slow serial device, so we ended up having to add a delay between every byte we sent over serial (I think we used 100 ms).

I tried to fidn the code for you, but I think we got rid of it after we did the expo with that laser marker.

It CAN be done, but it just takes some patience and some time spent with the manual.

[teeemzeh]

Hi, it is a long time ago since you guys worked on the topic, but i need to know if there was some solution at the end?

i want to try to control a keyence laser system (md-v9900) with labview, cause there are some stages etc. i control in labview and now i

want to add the laser to set up special application.

i guess there is a chance to use rs232 and ascii strings - but i think there is no support for labview from keyence.

Is there some solution, and is that working?

Best regards 

[ConnorM]

Good day teemzeh. After a little research, I was not able to find any keyence drivers for LabVIEW, but you can write your own driver. Here is a good list of options for instrument drivers.

http://www.ni.com/devzone/idnet/development.htm

You can use the  Instrument Driver Project Wizard to create a new driver yourself. 

But as Matt_S said, "It CAN be done, but it just takes some patience and some time spent with the manual."

I hope it helps.

Regards

[483334@gmail.com]

Well, I just reply the question here in lava.

https://lavag.org/topic/16690-anyone-has-experience-with-keyence-laser-marker/#comment-122286

at #8 reply.

maybe it's too late:(

[Bobber]

Please help me for downloads software with Keyence Laser Marker (MB-HLD)Hi,
I have the MB2 USB Dongle Key of the Keyence laser marker, I lost the Logo Design software DVD attached (MB-HLD), I need to download it again
Tks.

[altenbach]

This forum focuses on questions related to National Instruments, so this is probably the wrong place.

Have you tried contacting the Keyence company? I would probably start there.