AutoCAD in LabVIEW

[Jonnynumber5]

Hello all,

I have an electron storage ring which I need to bakeout to 250 degrees Celsius. I have written a user interface to control all of my heaters and thermocouples. Now I need to make a schematic of the ring for a user to be able to easily click on a part of the ring and read/write to that section. This is essential because we need to keep a relatively low temperature differential between different zones of the ring. Any ideas on how to link an AutoCAD drawing of the ring to a control system on my front panel with controls?

Cheers,

KC

[SimonH]

KC,

Could you mock up what you are imagining in PowerPoint or paint?  From there we could perhaps suggest how to create it in LabVIEW.

You can do a lot by importing custom images and getting creative with transparent areas of elements.  At a bare minimum you could copy and paste an image of the ring onto your front panel and place the controls next to the various segments.

SimonH

[charris]

It may be possible to (at the very least) display the ring on the front panel using a 3D picture control. If you can export your Autocad model to an ASCII STL file, you can convert and display it.

For a 2D drawing, you could create custom booleans and make the images transparent. If you place those over the ring/picture control in specific locations, that would allow you to use events based on what part of the ring the user clicks on (i.e. what transparent control the user clicks).