Bronkhorst FLOW-BUS LabVIEW Driver - Manual (Page 6)

FLOW-BUS LabVIEW™ Driver Manual 9.17.078
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1.5 Installation of the driver package
1.5.1 NI Instrument Driver Finder Installation
The driver can be downloaded and installed from LabVIEW™ by using the NI Instrument Driver Finder. To install the driver with this
tool please follow the next steps:
1) Open the NI Instrument Driver Finder from the
Tools»Instrumentation»Find Instrument Drivers or the
Help»Find Instrument Drivers menu.
2) Select Bronkhorst High-Tech from the manufacturer drop-down list.
If Bronkhorst High-Tech is not listed, enter 'FLOW-BUS' in the
search field.
3) Click the Search button. If the search button is disabled hit the
enter key.
4) Select the 'brflowbus Instrument Driver' entry from the search
results list.
5) Select the driver for the installed (or compatible) version of LabVIEW™.
6) Click the Install button*.
7) The NI Instrument Driver Finder will now download and install the
driver.
8) When the driver installation is finished you can close the NI Instrument
Driver Finder, and start using the Bronkhorst FLOW-BUS Driver.
Figure 1: NI Instrument Driver Finder
* If a login screen appears, enter your e-mail address and password to login with your NI account. If you do not
have a NI account, create a new account and then login.
1.5.2 Manual Installation
If the Installation with the Instrument Driver Finder fails you can try a manual installation. For the manual installation you will also
need to manually download the driver package.
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The most recent version of the driver will always be available on NI’s Instrument Driver Network (IDNet):
http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.model_page?p_model_id=22575 or
http://www.ni.com/downloads/instrument-drivers/
Please make sure you download the driver that is compatible with your installed version of LabVIEW™. After downloading please
follow these steps to install the driver:
1) Close LabVIEW™.
2) Extract the downloaded bronkhorst_flow_bus.zip file to
the instrument library folder, located at
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW xx
\instr.lib*
Where 'xx' indicates the installed LabVIEW™ version.
3) Start LabVIEW™, during the start-up process an entry will
be created in the instrument driver menu to access the
driver VIs.
4) Before you start using the driver it is advised to mass
compile the driver VIs. The option Mass Compile can be
found under Tools » Advanced » Mass Compile, click on
this option and perform the following steps to mass
compile the driver VIs:
a. Navigate to the instr.lib\Bronkhorst FLOW-BUS folder.
b. Click the Current Folder button.
c. Click the Mass Compile button.
d. Wait for the process to finish and click on the Done button.
5) The driver is now ready to be used.
Figure 2: Library folder location
* C:\Program Files is a system folder and is followed by (x86) on 64-bit Windows versions and may differ on non-
English Windows versions.