Polhemus LabVIEW Instrument Driver v4.2.0

Release date: 06/17/2013

Software part number: SWD-PS09-13-4.2.0

 

What it is:

Instrument Driver for National Instruments LabVIEW application for all currently available Polhemus trackers except G4: Liberty, Liberty LATUS, Patriot, Patriot WIRELESS, FasTrak.

(G4 has its own dedicated instrument driver.)

 

PDILV was developed and tested with LabVIEW 2012 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

 

FTP download (encrypted):

https://ftp.polhemus1.com/pub/Software/LabVIEW/SWD-PS09-13-4.2.0-PDILV-for-LabVIEW2012.zip

 

Notes:

·         This instrument driver works with Liberty, Patriot, FasTrak, Liberty LATUS, Patriot WIRELESS, and MinuteMan trackers.

·         G4 LabVIEW support is provided in a separate instrument driver.

·         This version of the instrument driver is based on the Polhemus Developer Interface version 4.2.0, found in the latest Host Software CD released for these trackers.

·         This instrument driver can also be obtained from the National Instruments website.

 

Release Notes:

The Polhemus PDI Instrument Driver has been upgraded and tested against the latest version, 4.2.0 of the Polhemus Developer Interface (PDI).  This upgrade allows the instrument driver to manage all Liberty trackers, up to 16 sensors, in addition to the Patriot tracker, the Liberty LATUS, Patriot WIRELESS, and FasTrak. 

 

PDILV was built and tested against 32- and 64-bit versions of LabVIEW 2012.

 

How to Install:

·         The .zip file contains two internal .zip files, PDI_win32.zip and PDI_x64.zip. 

·         Extract the internal PDI_win32.zip file into the instr.lib folder in your National Instruments LabVIEW 2012 32-bit installation.

or

·         Extract the internal PDI_x64.zip file into the instr.lib folder in your National Instruments LabVIEW 2012 64-bit installation.

 

 

Previous versions of PDI_LV available for earlier versions of LabVIEW:

 

For LabVIEW 8.6: 

·         https://ftp.polhemus1.com/pub/Software/LabVIEW/SWD-PS02-13-3.0.0a-PDILV-for-LabVIEW8.6.zip

·         Based on PDI v3.0.0.  Does not support FasTrak or G4 trackers.

 

For LabVIEW 8.5: 

·         https://ftp.polhemus1.com/pub/Software/LabVIEW/SWD-PS02-13-3.0.0a-PDILV-for-LabVIEW8.5.zip

·         Based on PDI v3.0.0.  Does not support FasTrak or G4 trackers.

 

For LabVIEW 7: 

·         https://ftp.polhemus1.com/pub/Software/LabVIEW/SWD-PS09-13-2.2.5-PDILV-for-LabVIEW7.zip

·         Based on PDI v3.0.0.  Does not support Patriot-WIRELESS, FasTrak or G4 trackers.