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I am currently engaged in university project to design an optical system for precision measurement. I purchased the student edition of labVIEW for my Mac as I planned to use 2 USB webcams to provide measurement from front and side view points. I have had the software a little more than a week and have noticed that the function section is missing for both measurement and image capture options. After looking through the forums I found that I needed to download NI Vision Acquisition software, however it does not appear to support the Mac OS. If any one could provide any help or advice with this issue it would be greatly appreciated
As you have found the NI Vision software is not avaialbel for the Mac (even though its ancestors were originally developed on the Mac).
Can you see the camera and the video using iMovie or any other Apple software? If so, you may be able to use Apple Events through LV to communicate with the camera or at least video files.
I do not have a USB camera and have not tried this.
The webcam shows up with all other software installed on the mac, however it does not seem to want to be recognised by any of the labVIEW software. I have tried accessing it through NI-VISA but it still does not want to recognise any USB hardware, I will investigate using apple events. Is there a possibility of an update to support NI Vision on the mac OS ?
