Labview for New Focus picomotor driver 8732

I am trying to interface with a New Focus picomotor driver model # 8732 using LabVIEW. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you

Hi,
Check out our Instrument Driver Network for drivers that work well with LabVIEW. If your New Focus Picomotor driver is not there, I would suggest you contact New Focus and see if they have a driver that works with LabVIEW. If the driver is a regular dll, you can call functions from that dll by using the call function library node. More help on that node can be found here.
I hope this helps,
Regards,
Nadim
Applications Engineering
National Instruments

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