Get Previous Version of LabVIEW Plug And Play Instrument Driver

This tutorial shows you how to get previous version of Plug and Play instrument driver in LabVIEW.

A LabVIEW Plug and Play instrument driver is a set of VIs that controls and communicates with a programmable instrument. Each VI corresponds to a programmatic operation, such as configuring, reading from, writing to, or triggering an instrument.
You can use the NI Instrument Driver Finder to search for and install LabVIEW Plug and Play instrument drivers without leaving the LabVIEW development environment.

But from the NI Instrument Driver Finder page, there are several previous versions that are not available.
As example, ADCMT 6241 - IEEE 488.2 (GPIB) Driver for LabVIEW does not have LabVIEW 2016, that is previous version from LabVIEW 2017.

1. From the NI Instrument Driver Finder page, download the LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Driver version 2017.


2. Extract the downloaded file hence open the project file in LabVIEW.


3. Use Saving for a Previous Version to save the LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Driver project file version to the previous version. 



4. After saving it, the project file can be shared.