NI Sound and Vibration Assistant 2010 Readme

Version 10.0.0


June 2010



This file contains information about the NI Sound and Vibration Assistant 2010. This file also provides you with help resources you can use while working with the Sound and Vibration Assistant. Refer to the Getting Started with the NI Sound and Vibration Assistant manual for information about getting started with the Sound and Vibration Assistant. You can access this PDF by selecting Help»Getting Started with»Sound and Vibration Assistant in the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


This file contains the following information:


Overview

System Requirements

Installation Instructions

Accessing the Help

Finding Examples

Known Issues

Bug Fixes


Overview

The Sound and Vibration Assistant is an interactive measurement program you can use to acquire, analyze, log, and present data from dynamic-signal acquisition devices, multifunction data acquisition devices, and instruments, with no programming required. Use the Sound and Vibration Assistant to interactively create projects to perform simple and advanced tasks in audio, noise vibration harshness, and machine monitoring applications.


System Requirements

The Sound and Vibration Assistant requires your computer to meet the following minimum system requirements:


  • Supported Operating Systems
    • Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
    • Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)
    • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit)
  • Minimum of 1 GB of RAM
  • Pentium 4/M or equivalent processor
  • NI-DAQmx 9.1 or later installed for NI-DAQmx support
  • LabVIEW 2010 installed to convert Sound and Vibration Assistant Projects to LabVIEW block diagrams

Note: The Sound and Vibration Toolkit 2010 and the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite 2010 do not support Windows NT/Me/2000/98/95 or the Windows Server non-R2 editions.


Note: The Sound and Vibration Assistant also requires you to update to Adobe Flash Player 7.0 or later in order to access the interactive tutorial.


Installation Instructions

You must be logged in with administrator privileges to install the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


Installing from the LabVIEW 2010 Platform DVD

You can install all of your LabVIEW products—including the Sound and Vibration Assistant—using the LabVIEW 2010 Platform DVDs. You can find installation instructions for the Sound and Vibration Assistant along with activation instructions in the following locations:


  • LabVIEW Release Notes, which are available in your LabVIEW software kit.
  • LabVIEW 2010 Platform DVDs Readme, which is available on the top-level of LabVIEW Platform DVD 1.

To request additional LabVIEW 2010 Platform DVDs, refer to the National Instruments Web site.


Note:   If you purchased this product with an NI Software Suite or NI Product Bundle, use the installation media that shipped with your purchase to install this product.


Installing from the Sound and Vibration Toolkit or the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite DVD

Complete the following steps to install the Sound and Vibration Assistant on Windows 7/Vista/XP/Server 2008 (64-bit)/Server 2003 (32-bit):


  1. Disable any automatic virus detection programs before installation. Some virus detection programs interfere with the installation program.
  2. Insert the Sound and Vibration Toolkit or the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite DVD and follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
  3. After installation, enable any virus detection programs you disabled and run a virus scan.
  4. Restart the computer.
  5. Activate the Sound and Vibration Assistant using the NI License Manager.

Accessing the Help

You can access the Sound and Vibration Assistant Help, part of the LabVIEW SignalExpress Help, by selecting Help»Sound and Vibration Assistant Help and navigating to the Step Reference»Sound and Vibration Assistant Steps book on the Contents tab. You also can view the step and parameter help in the context help windows in the right pane of the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


Finding Examples

You can access the Sound and Vibration Assistant example projects by selecting Help»Open Example»Sound and Vibration Assistant in the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


The Sound and Vibration Assistant example projects are intended for use with National Instruments dynamic signal acquisition hardware. If you use any other device that does not support the specific measurements in the example project, you must change the Measurement Type to a measurement type supported by the device you want to use. You can change the Measurement Type on the Channel View tab or on the DAQmx Acquire Step Setup tab.


Known Issues

You can access the software and documentation known issues list online. Refer to the National Instruments Web site for an up-to-date list of known issues in the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


Bug Fixes

The following items are the IDs and titles of a subset of issues fixed between the Sound and Vibration Assistant 7.0 and 2010. If you have a Bug ID, you can search this list to validate that the issue has been fixed. This is not an exhaustive list of issues fixed in the current version of the Sound and Vibration Assistant.


Bug IDFixed Issue
177020Start menu link to the Sound and Vibration Assistant is now removed by an uninstall.
190099Power in band measurements power in band output can now be accumulated on sweep output as well as the chart history.
200147You can change the angle to radian inside the XControl and switch the XY channels if necessary.
206565Phase is returned as NaN when tone not identified in response.

Copyright


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Patents


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