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ivorypig

Can wires in LabVIEW

Status: Declined
Idea would not work in many tight wiring situations. Making it an optional setting would just create another style setting to debate about, and having all wires appear similar is important to the readability when shared between developers or online.

Is it posible to set Fillet/Chamfer for wires in LabVIEW block diagram, like in CAD...

Right angle everywhere looks a little rigid...

 

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RavensFan
Knight of NI

Are you asking a question about whether you can?  Or suggesting this as an improvement to LabVIEW?

 

It sounds like you are just asking a question.  And no, you can't chamfer wires.

 

I don't understand the title to your message.  The word "can" makes no sense here.

ivorypig
Member

I'm sorry. But I'm suggest an improvement. I have been a LabVIEW user since 8.2..but never found a method to configure wires in Block Diagram with a chamfer or a fillet.

Why wires in LabVIEW always turn 90 degree at a corner?

So I suggest if it's possible to set a radius or an angle for bending wires,just like a circuit diagram or a mechanical drawing. 

What's your opinion ,,RavensSmiley Happy

Is this a stupid mind

 

PaulG.
Active Participant

Chamfers and fillets in mechanical drawings are there for a purpose and not to make the lines look "pretty". Making wires bend in chamfers and fillets will not add one iota of functionality (or IMO readability) to the block diagram.

PaulG.

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jcarmody
Trusted Enthusiast

My first LabVIEW mentor told me once that a VI becomes less efficient as you increase the number of wire bends.  Yeah.  You remember that, don't you, Denise!?!?! Smiley Mad

 

From here:

 

Example_VI_BD.png

 

I put round corners on my wires.  Sometimes I use a sinusoid...

 

Example_VI_BD.png

 

I had to make vugie's JKI RCF plugin into a Quick Drop plugin, so it's not as configurable in my LV2012 implementation, but it's there for me. 

Jim
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ivorypig
Member

Cool, jcarmody, when I drop your 2nd png to my vi,  highlight and run...

ivorypig
Member

I always imagine datastream in LV wires as signals in circuits,  a chamfer will surely good to make signals less sensitive to high frequency noise ...forgive my stupidness.

 

I'll try JKI RCF plugin for one time at least..

 

 

MaryH
Member
Status changed to: Declined
Idea would not work in many tight wiring situations. Making it an optional setting would just create another style setting to debate about, and having all wires appear similar is important to the readability when shared between developers or online.