Hi all, we have replaced the whole Isodat program by Labview and replaced the GPIB-processor board by a USB driven board incuding new V/F converters in connection with a remotely controlled Laser fluorination line (also under Labview) Data are transfered into Excel for further processing Hans Friedrichsen -----Ursprüngliche Mitteilung----- Von: Ben Passey <[log in to unmask]> An: ISOGEOCHEM <[log in to unmask]> Verschickt: Di, 5 Mrz 2013 3:16 pm Betreff: Re: [ISOGEOCHEM] Communication ISODAT / LabVIEW Hi Andreas, We have a Labview-controlled extraction line for which we've set up a very simple, one-way, communication scheme from Isodat to Labview. The overall sequence of events is controlled by Isodat. It starts particular operations of Labview by writing codes to a text file that the latter is continually reading. It's nothing fancy and I'm sure others have come up with more sophisticated approaches, but it works. I'd be happy to give you the details offline. Cheers, Ben On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:39 AM, Pack, Andreas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Dear list members, I wonder about the best possibility to establish a communication between ISODAT and LabVIEW. Our extraction line is controlled with LabVIEW that should communicate with ISODAT running the MS. Has any of you done that in the past? A simple solution would be to communicate via text files (e.g. with commands in them) that the one program writes and the other program reads. From the LabVIEW side, this would work without problem. I would appreciate if one/more of you could share your experience. Thanks, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Andreas Pack Universität Göttingen Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum Goldschmidtstrasse 1 D–37077 Göttingen Germany Web: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/78572.html Tel.: (Ms. Andrea Beckmann, secretary) +49 551 397901 Fax: +49 551 3910452 Tel: (office) +49 551 3912254, (mobile) +49 175 2981638 -- ********************************************* Benjamin H. Passey Johns Hopkins University Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences 301 Olin Hall 3400 N Charles Street Baltimore, MD 21218 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] *********************************************