Related Documentation

Most NI-Motion manuals also are available as PDFs. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader with Search and Accessibility 5.0.5 or later installed to view the PDFs. Refer to the Adobe Systems Incorporated Web site to download Acrobat Reader. Refer to the National Instruments Product Manuals Library for updated documentation resources.

The following documentation is included with your NI motion controller and the NI-Motion software. Use this information to determine which piece of documentation will be useful for your task.

• Getting Started with NI-Motion for NI 73xx Motion Controllers—Provides installation instructions and general information about the NI-Motion product.
• NI 73xx User Manuals—Provide information about optional equipment, cabling, and user connectors, including pin assignments.
• NI-Motion User Manual—Contains information about selecting a motor, how to design a basic move, how to design a multi-axis move, incorporating Vision and DAQ into Motion applications, and how to work with common Motion concepts, such as Bode analysis, contouring, and breakpoints. The software user manual is task-based and takes you through each phase of designing and executing a Motion application.
• NI-Motion Readme—Contains system requirements, installation instructions, descriptions of any changes made to the software, information about new features in the release, and information about late-breaking known issues that are not documented in other NI-Motion documents.
• NI-Motion Function Help—Contains function reference files for C and Visual Basic and provides details about each function, including a description of the function, a list of the function parameters, illustrations, and error codes.
• NI-Motion VI Help—Contains LabVIEW VI reference files and provides details about each VI, including VI descriptions, lists of control and input terminals, usage, illustrations, and error codes.