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About Gan Uesli Starling

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  • Birthday 12/24/1955

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    Holland MI, USA
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    Rhino 6, Perl, Esperanto, Ham Radio KY8D, Motorcycling

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    LabVIEW 2018
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    2007

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  1. Gan Uesli Starling
    Wanting to rotate an arbitrary 3D point, cords X,Y,Z relative to XYZ location 0,0,0 in a 3D system. But all I find is Math/Geometry/3D Rot (direct and euler) which both take ARRAYS for their input, and a 3X3 ARRAY for it's command. I do not grok this concept at all. What's going on? How can I use it instead to deal with a single point (anywhere) relative to the system origin? Problem relates to a calculator I have built for the design of log-periodic antennas. The antenna consists of wires, paired as XYZ_from and XYZ_to with also a subunit 'segments' for each, thus a 4xN array of (X,
  2. Gan Uesli Starling
    We have a gage supplied by a company that shipped it with a *.exe application targeted for LVRTE 2009. I need to retarget it for 2017, but don't have the source code. The supplier had said they'd gladly supply me with a copy of the *.LV source, but they have looked and cannot find their own copy in-house. History of Need: Our global corporate mother ship's IT department, in their infinite wisdom, is mandating an upgrade from Win7 to Win10. That with yet even further constraints. They enforce a list of "approved versions" of "approved applications". And for LVRTE, they are insisting upon 2
  3. Gan Uesli Starling started following LabVIEW Network License Problem and LabVIEW for Ham Radio
  4. Gan Uesli Starling
    There were some things I was wanting to do in my ham radio hobby for which I had no ambition to write a GUI in Perl. And so, now there is this: KY8D.net/free
  5. Gan Uesli Starling
    It's a political thing. In my own department (Test Engineering) we are fully invested with LabVIEW. The test stand in question, however, belongs to another department. And they are devoutly enamored of Allen Bradley. Cost is no issue, my company has full, all-encompassing corporate licenses for both NI and AB softwares. I am considered something of the plant-wide hardware and software guru, if only because I've been here 12 years. But this project got handed to me already with the AB constraint. Bit of an uphill slog in my future, so it would seem: new hardware & a new authoring platform.
  6. Gan Uesli Starling
    I am assigned to refurbish an airflow instrument having six pressure sensors, four temp sensors, and six on/off outputs. By preference I would use all NI hardware, but this isn't going to be allowed. I'm being pushed toward installing an Allen Bradley PLC instead. I am aware of another, much more complicated liquid flow test stand which, so I'm informed, uses LabVIEW for SCADA on a Seimens PLC. This being the case, cannot I do likewise with Allen Bradley? Can I do it entirely in LabVIEW? Or is something like that always just LabVIEW sending trigger commands and receiving data from a free-stand
  7. Gan Uesli Starling
    There are LabVIEW Drivers located here... http://thermotron.com/pdf/_service/labview7/TH88-8200.zip ...which I've downloaded and installed. But first I must make the initial connection, which is where I still suffer confusion for where to start. Were it RS-485, I'd just set up COM3 with one of my several USB-to-Serial dongles. I have such a dongle on order for GPIB to allow connection to the IEE-488 connector, but it will take some days to arrive. Meanwhile the RJ-45 beckons, so I'd like to firstly try that. Also with regard to the forthcoming USB-to-GPIB dongle, a page at
  8. Gan Uesli Starling
    I have a Thermotron test chamber with an 8200 controller to which I'd like for LabVIEW to talk. Basically, I only just need for LabVIEW to know the current set point of the Thermotron for whatever internal program it might be currently running. Only just that. Just so LabVIEW knows what it's trying to do at any particular moment. So LabVIEW can ask and get an answer. Our 8200 controller has TCP/IP and GPIB. But I've never yet done ought with either of those, only just RS-485 up until now. So I'm not sure just where to start. Anyone out there have helpful clues?
  9. Gan Uesli Starling
    On my Front Panel I have mostly buttons. Buttons and a single Input box for typing serial number. That single Input box feels like a stumbling block to users who habitually TAB their way from widget to widget. They stumble because, after typing the serial number into the box, they can't TAB their way out. Instead (of course, to my way of thinking) the Input box accepts the TAB as a character (rather than interpret it as a command). It bothers some (unreasonably, to my way of thinking) that they should have to press Enter, rather than TAB, to exit that box. What they want is to press TAB and ha
  10. Gan Uesli Starling
    SOLVED! My issues are now resolved. How we did was: Via Windows Control Panel, first removed all NI Software. Said software having been previously installed from an in-house source (corporate IT hosted out-of-state server). Removal of which took many hours. Install LabVIEW 2013 afresh from CDROM, electing “Evaluation only…” as the license option. Update the NI Package Manager when so prompted. Opted for only URGENT and LabVIEW 2013 related updates. Ran, ex-post-facto, the in-house "vlmclient.exe" to associate our in-house license.
  11. Gan Uesli Starling
    Okay, so I tried those and it still didn't help. A full-reinstall, this time carefully choosing the machine-based (aka "all users") version from our company's (far away) network server. Still the same issues, no matter what. Other users could open LabVIEW and even write their own tiny LabVIEW test routines and have them work ... but only so long as their VI did not include the Three Button Dialog. For other users different from me, the Three Button Dialog (and a few others) were missing from the pallet. Only for others, never for me. So I decided nest to "Remove all NI Software" via the C
  12. Gan Uesli Starling
    Our company has a company-wide network license server for LabVIEW. I have a machine where I installed LabVIEW and everything works dandy there. But nobody else can use it at all. I've already been through plural rounds of local IT shooting in the dark: try this, try that, try something else, do the first thing again. It's all been no use. So does anyone know where I can delve into my own WORKING connection for LabVIEW to its networked license server to learn what it is that my own account does right? A register someplace, a configuration menu, a hidden *.ini file somewhere? Anything like
  13. Gan Uesli Starling

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    Test stand had a touch screen. User wanted radio buttons instead of a pull-down menu. Wanted tests to run on pressing the button and pass/fail indication thereof. So I did that for him. Here is the stand-alone proof-of-concept that I worked up for it. Arrays are used so Boolean texts can change to suit different models of unit under test. If a Boolean text is blank, then that button will go invisible meanwhile, there being as many (up to 7) or as few (down to one) as may need be. I should mention, in case it's not obvious, that when in actual use, the three arrays are hidden inside of a s
  14. Gan Uesli Starling
    View File Example Custom Radio Buttons Test stand had a touch screen. User wanted radio buttons instead of a pull-down menu. Wanted tests to run on pressing the button and pass/fail indication thereof. So I did that for him. Here is the stand-alone proof-of-concept that I worked up for it. Arrays are used so Boolean texts can change to suit different models of unit under test. If a Boolean text is blank, then that button will go invisible meanwhile, there being as many (up to 7) or as few (down to one) as may need be. I should mention, in case it's not obv
  15. Gan Uesli Starling
    So I have a multi-tab GUI. But for some reason, on load before run, it doesn't display the tab that was showing on save. It shows a tab which I don't want to be showing instead. On run, it starts with the right tab. Then saving and closing with that tab showing, on re-open (before run) it still shows a tab I don't want. How can I influence that? On top is the tab I want to show on open before run. At bottom is the tab that shows instead. You see my problem...
  16. Gan Uesli Starling
    Okay. That was indeed the issue. I figured out starting the tasks outside the loop and that helped a LOT. Thanks.
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