how to display scope plot in Labview GUI?

[jjlee]

I am trying to figure out how to show TDS8000 scope output plot in LV GUI(?)

This maybe a two fold question.

1. I suppose it may be necessary to adjust the scope scale with appropriate level so that the plot will show enough details of information. (e.g., finding Max and Min points)

2. how to display scope plot in LV GUI?

It would be a great help if anyone can share an example VI.

Thanks,

[mfitzsimons]

Did you download the instrument driver?

http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E9303659CE034080020E74861

[jjlee]

I think I did...I am actually looking for an example VI that can read scope display into a user interface. Is this a difficult task?

Thanks in advance!

[Matt_S.]

Hi jjlee,

It shouldn't be that difficult of a task. Most instrument drivers have a simple initialize VI, and then some type of waveform measurement VI. You would connect these two VIs and then take the output from the waveform measurement (may be waveform acquire or something like that) to a graph or chart (depending on if you're outside of inside of a loop). That should be all you need to do for the simplest form of this application. You would, of course, want to handle errors and close the connection to the device when you're done collecting the data.

Hope this is of some help,
Regards,
Matt S.