How can I import an Autocad drawing in LabView ?

[jsh]

Hi, I am new in this forum and have just started to use LabView and the DSC module. My question is: Is it possible to import an Autocad drawing in LabView and use it as a background picture with dynamic I/O tags on top of it, e.g. to import a picture of an office and then place status info of temp, light level, doors open/closed etc. on top of the background picture. If anybody has got some example code they would like to share, I would be grateful. Thanks in advance.

[Khalid]

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Hi,

LVDSC supports the BMP and WMF file formats for images. If you can somehow convert your Autocad drawing into any of these formats, using them in your VIs is easy.

In the Tools>>Datalogging & Supervisory Control menu, you'll find an Image Navigator. This image navigator will allow you to import your images and copies them to Clipboard which you can later paste onto your front panels.

If you can't convert or 'save as' your Autocad drawing to a BMP/WMF format, as a last resort, you can take a screen dump (hit Alt+PrintScrn) and save it as either of these formats.

Hope this helps.

Rgds,

Khalid 🙂




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