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NI myDAQ User Guide
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NI ELVISmx Instrument Launcher
The NI ELVISmx Instrument Launcher provides access to the NI ELVISmx software
instruments, additional featured instruments, lab exercises, documentation and online resource
links, and functionality to add data and reference files. To open the Instrument Launcher,
navigate to
Start»All Programs»National Instruments»NI ELVISmx for NI ELVIS &
NI myDAQ»NI ELVISmx Instrument Launcher
. This opens the suite of NI ELVISmx
software instruments.
Figure 11.
NI ELVISmx Instrument Launcher
To launch an instrument, click the button corresponding to the desired instrument. Select the
NI myDAQ device from the
Device
control pull-down dialog.
Some instruments perform similar operations using the same resources of the NI myDAQ
hardware and therefore cannot run at the same time. If you launch two instruments with
overlapping functionality that cannot run at the same time, the NI ELVISmx software generates
an error dialog describing the conflict. The instrument with the error is disabled and will not
function until the conflict is resolved. For information about possible resource conflicts, refer to
the