Seattle area LabVIEW users who either can’t wait or can’t make the trip to NI Week in May decided to organize a LabVIEW Developer Conference. Anyone interested in honing their LabVIEW skills is invited to come together to present on and l...
DMC is excited to lead three presentations at NIWeek 2019 which is coming up on May 20-23 at the Austin Convention Center. More than 3,200 engineers, educators, and NI developers from over 60 countries will come together and ...
DMC is proud to announce that we are officially recognized as a National Instruments SystemLink Specialty Alliance Partner. We are now part of a distinct group of companies that have proven expertise with specific NI product platforms. SystemLin...
In a recent project, we needed to set up communication between a PC running LabView and a Siemens S7-1500 PLC. Thankfully, Siemens provides the LCom communications library, shown below, for setting up TCP communications on SIMATIC S7-300/400, SIMATIC...
Flashing an ECU can be a time-intensive process, so it’s no wonder that automotive OEMs are looking for ways to speed up production. Luckily, Vector has released a set of C/C# API commands called vFlashStation. This library has the capabilit...
I’ve recently been looking into some of NI’s latest and greatest products, specifically SystemLink and NI Package Manager. They’re both exciting new developments for the NI community, with great promise for the future of LabVIEW and...
Conclusion Although shutting down your PC is a very quick debugging step to address your PXI modules’ connection issues, many PXI users may not be aware of the PXI module to PC connection process, and thus will not know to try this troublesh...
DMC recently welcomed the Chicagoland LabVIEW Users Group back to our office. We love sharing information and expertise with other technical professionals in the Chicago area, and we've enjoyed hosting the LabVIEW community at our offic...
DMC recently took a break from day-to-day tasks to participate in one of our favorite company traditions, FedEx Day. Routine work on hold, our offices still brimmed with life and projects while everyone worked on whatever they wanted. F...
Using code management tools is essential, but choosing from LabVIEW's many options can be tricky. Here I will explore Project Libraries (.lvlib), Classes (.lvclass), Libraries (.llb), Packed Project Libraries (.lvlibp), Projects (.lvproj), and VI...