Reading Data from an Instrument

NI MAX Assistant IIOA

Reading Data from an Instrument

Use a Read and Parse step to read data from an instrument and parse the returned data.

Complete the following steps to read data from an instrument.

  1. Select the instrument with which you want to communicate.
  2. Click the Add Step button above the Step Sequence window, and select Read and Parse from the Add Step menu that appears.
  3. Click the Run button above the Step Sequence window to read data from the instrument. The data appears in the response window.
  4. Parse the data.
  5. (Optional) Scale tokens you create.