Intro
Labview is used for real-time instrument controls and in First Robotics. It is a purely visual programming environment, which is very strange for me. I am a complete Labview amateur. If you’ve read some of my other posts you might see a pattern emerging! But nevertheless I know a few things. Then I use the program so infrequently I forget them. And Labview is the kind of program where you can spend a lot of time that could have been saved if you just knew a better way. So here is the better way…
The most useful Labview shortcuts
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– Select (a node),
– Right-click a node, then choose similar items from this function palette – to quickly find a related function
Tips
– Rt-click on wire, then Clean wire – to make it more tidy
– Click while dragging wire, then move the mouse at a right angle – to create a right-angle bend in the wire just where you want it
Labview mentor training
https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-21180 This is a really helpful link for mentors as well as students.
The best resource I have found
Team 358 has put together the best resource for FRC teams I have found – every basic- and intermediate-level difficulty thing you’ll need is explained on this one page. Well worth a bookmark. Thank you team 358! http://team358.org/files/programming/ControlSystem2009-/LabVIEW/. (2/2016 update) But see the references for a working link to this page…
That’s about all I know!
References and related
Team 358’s web site is often not working. I have found a working copy on the Wayback machine of their great Labview tutorial: Team 358 Labview tutorial on archive.org