Update to Motion Assistant

I have just installed the Motion Assistant upgrade. It is supposed to upgrade 1.2 to 1.2.1. However, after the installation, when I click on About it says 1.2 and when I look in the NI License Manager, it says 1.2 as well. So, is it installed or not?
Bob Young - Test Engineer - Lapsed Certified LabVIEW Developer
DISTek Integration, Inc. - NI Alliance Member
mailto:[email protected]

It was and is activated just fine. Also, if the update was only for NILM activation, it is probably not necessary for me to go around and upgrade all the machines it is on. That's nice to know.
Thanks,
Bob Young
Bob Young - Test Engineer - Lapsed Certified LabVIEW Developer
DISTek Integration, Inc. - NI Alliance Member
mailto:[email protected]

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Hello, the following is my current setup:
NI PCI-7334 motion control board
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3 x NI P70530 Drives
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3 x Power supply units for drives
LabVIEW 2010
NI Motion Assistant 2.6
Motion and Automation Explorer 4.7
I have built a three axis motion system that I am trying to configure with labview. After verifying that everything was set up correctly, I opened MAX, updated the firmware to my motion control board, and intitialized the controller. Since then, I have created many basic programs using the Motion Assistant Software to test the movement of my device. Everything works fine while using the Motion Assistant software (I have three axis movement, multidirectional control, and can perform various straight line and arc moves). My problems begin when I try to use the code generation feature.
When trying to use the code generation feature to output a labview diagram, I run into a problem where a dialog box pops up and says "Find the vi named ...."
Some examples of the names that come up are: Configure Vector Space.flx, Vector Space To Control.flx, Motion Error Handler.flx.
To be clear the program in Motion Assistant that I am trying to export to LabVIEW code is composed of two individual steps. One that tells X,Y, and Z motors to move forward 25 revolutions, and one step that tells them to move backwards 25 revolutions.
I have made many other programs in Motion Assistant that run fine, but I always receive similar errors when trying to use the code generation feature to export to LabVIEW. Is there something that I can do to solve my problem?
Thank you for your help.

Hi Joe,
I am using Ni-Motion Assistant 2.6, Ni-Motion 8.1, and Motion and Automated Explorer version 4.7.
The code I posted is supposed to tell Axis 1 to move 40 revolutions at 400 rpm. It works fine in Ni-Motion Assistant but when I try to generate a LabVIEW diagram I receive the following error, "Find the VI named 'Motion Error Handler.flx'". I have had it search my directory, as well as the disk that I installed both LabVIEW and Ni-Motion but no luck. Thanks for your help.
Attachments:
1111.vi ‏9 KB
1 axis movement.zip ‏8 KB

Motion assistant msvcr90.dll

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I have never seen this issue whent using NI Motion or boards before. When I went to reboot Windows 7 (64) wanted to do an update install.
I am running LabVIEW 2011 SP1 I believe.
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Hi Ryan,
I'm not sure what might be causing this, but here are a few steps we can take to identify the underlying issue:
1) Is LabVIEW generating a crash log file when the access violation occurs? If so can you post it here?
2) What version of NI-Motion is referenced by the EXE?
3) MSVCR90.dll does not appear to be related to NI-Motion. Is the EXE performing any other notable functions? Particularly in calling external code?
4) Was the EXE built on a 64 bit system? Does the same error occur on the development (or any other system)?
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Motion Assistant Contour Array Points - Optimal Array Size?

I am working with the NI Motion Assistant API and plyaing around with the Contour Move generation where I feed a set of X, Y target points to the Set Contour Move Properties.
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Hi Ryan,
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Cons
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Hello,
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1. Use Motion assistant to generate 2 or 3 steps of motion.
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Result:
After I doing this, the LabView file is generated. But, it is a file containing a few control switch (without any other key components to produce the motion control function).
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James

Good morning James,
This post appears to be a duplicate of the following thread:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=240&message.id=3878
Please refer to this thread for the solution. If am incorrect, please post back and I will do my best to answer your questions.
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Motion assistant: Cannot convert to LabView file

Hello,
I would like to ask for help on problem: the file generation from Motion assistant to Labview
Background:
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2. Save it.
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Result:
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Thus, what is the problem behind?
Thanks
James

Dear Jochen,
I had tried what you said.
1.
Treat read-only VI as locked : uncheck
Enable window explorer for LLB file : check
Note: basically, I have reset the machine after set the options
2.
Uninstall Ni-motion -> no-reboot -> install again
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James
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Motion-Part2b.vi ‏9 KB

Motion assistant 2.1 code generation...

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Hi,
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Why don't you use the velocity mode ?
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Hi,
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10,0
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0,0
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