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Triggering Tekscan using Labview

I have a Tekscan pressure measurement system and Labview software installed on the same PC. I want my Tekscan software to start recording the video as soon as I click the start button in Labview. So basically I want Labview to indirectly trigger a button in Teskcan. Is that possible? If yes, how?

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Tekscan SDK (for LabVIEW, too - look at the picture of the laptop!).

 

Probably the hardest thing to do is to figure out HOW you want to take the readings.  Once you have that in place, you can translate that into any programming language.

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I just want to click on record buttons in Labview and Tekscan simultaneously as I need the starting point to be same. Could you please help me translate this into programming language.
Thanks.
(SDK is a very expensive option in my case).
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@jasnoor wrote:
I just want to click on record buttons in Labview and Tekscan simultaneously as I need the starting point to be same. Could you please help me translate this into programming language.
Thanks.
(SDK is a very expensive option in my case).

Oh, sorry about that.  I'm not familiar with this equipment.  If you can find the programmer's guide (it looks like the user manual doesn't mention anything about programming) and if you can describe how you would do it manually, we could make some headway here.

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Manually I would just click on the start record button in Labview, then minimise this window, and then click the start record button in Tekscan's software window. I just need the two clicks on start buttons to be simultaneous.

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@jasnoor wrote:

Manually I would just click on the start record button in Labview, then minimise this window, and then click the start record button in Tekscan's software window. I just need the two clicks on start buttons to be simultaneous.


Sorry I have to ask all these questions, but I need to have a clear understanding of what you are trying to do.  Is this how you always do it, or have you never done this manually before and is this just what you think should happen?

 

Now would also be a good time to dig up the documents I mentioned.  Without them, we can't really do anything.

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