Draw cylinder

[Goju-Ryu]

Hello all!

I'd like to know how can I draw and visualize a cylinder in LabVIEW and change the color of its surface regions.

In the future, I'd like to represent in this virtual cylinder the response from a sensor array positioned around a real cylinder.

I've already read about this subject on the forum but couldn't find a good answer/help. The closest link to my subject that I could find was the following one:

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=232&message.id=4145&query.id=138742#M4145

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance.

Best regards!

[altenbach]

We need to know your LabVIEW version, because things got much easier in LabVIEW 8.6. Have a look at the "sensor mapping" as an example.

[Goju-Ryu]

My version is Labview 8.6

My sensor array will be interrogated by USB and I2C and not by a DAQ device. Does this method also applies in my case?

If I don't have a Stereolitography or a VRML file with my cylinder how can I draw one here?

Can you provide a simple example from where I could start my implementation?

Thank you very much!

Best regards!