Instrument Driver

[govindsankar]

Hi,

I have downloaded and unzipped the instrument driver of Keithley 2600 to the instr.lib folder of National Instruments in C folder. But I cannot find the driver when I open my LabVIEW front panel, under instrument drivers. When I go to tools and go to fins instrument drivers, it is showing an error message: NI instrument driver finder has encountered problems connecting to Instrument Driver Network. There is no internet connection on my laptop due to data protection in my company. How to install the driver into my LabVIEW software?

Govind

[Gigi_31]

Hello Govind,

How your driver looks like ? There is no setup.exe ? Is this IVI or VISA driver ? Where did you download it ?

[govindsankar]

. I downloaded from their online site 

https://www.tek.com/source-measure-units/2635-software/keithley-series-2600-2600a-2600b-native-labvi...

It's a zip file. I unzipped the file and copied all the files on the unzipped folder to instr.lib of National Instruments in C:\ProgrammeFiles.

[Gigi_31]

Your driver is a LabVIEW project.

You can communicate with your instrument openning exemples whiche are into this Keithley project.

You can also build a library (.llb) or a project packed library (.lvlibp) in order to include it to your own project.

I hope it helps.

Best Regards.

[govindsankar]

Here I have also added how it looks like in my LabVIEW. 

here you can see there is Keithley 2600, but there is nothing inside. What to do? 

[JÞB · Accepted solution]

zipped it to <LabVIEW>\Instr.lib\Keithley 2600\Keithley 2600\

One too many folders

[govindsankar]

How can I build my own library here? Can you please explain

[govindsankar]

Thank you, very much, too many folders were the problem. Got it now.

[JÞB · Accepted solution]

Sorry,

You unzipped it to a "New Folder" rather than straight into Instr.lib and got an extra folder.  just move the content of Keithley_2600\Keithley_2600\ to 

instr.lib\Keithley_2600\

[govindsankar]

yes that is what i did