Related Documentation

Most motion control manuals also are available as PDFs. You must have Adobe Reader with Search and Accessibility 5.0.5 or later installed to view the PDFs. Refer to the Adobe Systems Incorporated Web site at www.adobe.com to download Adobe Reader. Refer to the National Instruments Product Manuals Library at ni.com/manuals for updated documentation resources.

The following documents contain information that you may find helpful as you use this help file:

• Getting Started with NI-Motion for NI 73xx Motion Controllers—Provides installation instructions and general information about the NI-Motion product.
• Getting Started: NI SoftMotion Controller for Copley Controls CANopen Drives—Contains information about getting started with the NI SoftMotion Controller for CANopen.
• 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.
• 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.
• Measurement & Automation Explorer Help for Motion—Provides information about using MAX to configure the NI 73xx motion controller as well as some advanced conceptual information about topics such as Bode analysis and control loop parameters.
• NI 73xx user manuals—Describes the electrical and mechanical aspects of the NI 73xx motion controller, and contains information about installing and operating the device.
• 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 Developer Zone (NIDZ)—Visit the NI Developer Zone, at ni.com/zone, for example programs, tutorials, technical presentations, the Instrument Driver Network, product advisors, application notes, and a discussion forum where you can share ideas, questions, and source code with motion developers around the world.
• Motion Hardware Advisor—Visit the National Instruments Motion Hardware Advisor at ni.com/devzone/advisors/motion/ to select motors and stages appropriate to the motion control application.

In addition to the NI Developer Zone, you can find NI-Motion C/C++ and Visual Basic programming examples in the NI-Motion\FlexMotion\Examples folder where you installed NI-Motion. The default directory is Program Files\National Instruments\NI-Motion for Windows XP/2000 and the 32-bit version of Windows Vista and Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\NI-Motion for the 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

You can find LabVIEW example programs under examples\Motion in the directory where you installed LabVIEW. You can find LabWindows™/CVI™ examples under samples\Motion in the directory where you installed LabWindows/CVI.

You can find the NI-Motion C/C++ and LabVIEW example code referenced in this manual in the NI-Motion\Documentation\Examples\NI-Motion User Manual folder where you installed NI-Motion.