LabVIEW 3D Picture Control Evaluation Software Discussion

[Nandha]

It depends on the complexity of th e model. I once tried to display and simulate the kinematics of my robot model, it was slow. but if you reduce the complexity you can get faster result.

[rolfk]

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lisandropuglisi wrote:
Does anybody has ever work with real mechanical object in 3D Picture Control, instead of simple primitives (cubes, spheres, etc). Because it takes to long to read the .wrl files.

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The 3D picture Control is a nice tool but not nearly as optimized for such tasks as real 3D modelling software like Solidworks. And it is an entire software theorie of its own, so I don't expect NI to tackle that. Instead NI seems to be working more towards tighter integration with Solidworks, and who knows maybe they will acquire them or some other 3D modeling software some day

Has happened with other software tools like HiQ, Diadem, Electronics Workbench.

Rolf Kalbermatter

[Ben]

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rolfk wrote:

... like HiQ, ...

Rolf Kalbermatter

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I have not heard (read) that in quite a while.

Someday we should put together a list of terms that have come and gone.

HiQ

BridgeVIEW

State Diagram Editor

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Ben

[rolfk]

Actually HiQ has not come and gone again just as BridgeVIEW at least in a technical way. HiQ was an independant software package a bit like Mathematica and NI acquired it and presumably integrated some of that knowledge into LabVIEW and CVI analysis libraries, but indeed let the original software die. BridgeVIEW was simply a LabVIEW version containing a SCADA system mostly written in LabVIEW too. They had taken some parts, such as the hystorical logging, from the Lookout software, they just had acquired some time before from Georgetown software. Later BridgeVIEW was abandoned as name but the additions that made out BridgeVIEW were released as LabVIEW Data and Supervisory Control add-on toolkit.

Then there is the SurfaceVIEW add-on which was a 3D graph add-on from Metric systems but that was so tightly integrated into the LabVIEW internas, that were in LabVIEW 3 still very much accessible, although not usable in any way from people who had not worked on the LabVIEW development team themselves. This interface allowed external code modules to have access into the LabVIEW object oriented messaging system, but proofed to be a maintenance nightmare as the LabVIEW versions evolved and the object message interface got expanded. In About LabVIEW 5 most of that interface was entirely removed from the cintools exports and as such it was not even theoretical possible for non LabVIEW developers to add such controls.

Another name was ConceptVI which was bought by NI and renamed and since also completely redesigned into IMAQ Vision. That redesign was actually a good thing as the original ConceptVI library had a somewhat special idea about how a LabVIEW VI library should look and work.

Then there is the Medium Toolkit (also called SQL toolkit) from Ellipsis software which was acquired in 1996 and resold for several years before it was completely redesigned into the current Database Toolkit that is using ADO instead of accessing ODBC.

Rolf Kalbermatter

Message Edited by rolfk on 08-19-2009 08:21 PM

[johnsold]

IMAQ itself was a vision program which originated, like LV, on the Mac.  After NI bought it, they changed it to a Windows only add on to LV.  There was at least one version of LV and IMAQ which ran on the Mac.

Lynn 

[Savageaggie]

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Semiconductor Market Development Manager - Semiconductor Test

National Instruments 

[UrsL]

Hi Lynn,

The IMAQ Vision Toolkit for LabVIEW 4.1 was the one you wrote about. In fact I somehow brought it up to LabVIEW 6.1 which runs well on the latest and greatest Classic MacOS 9.2 and I still use it there on a B&W G3 Mac for a number of simple image acquisition tasks with a NI-PCI frame grabber board.

Long-timers sometimes outlive the up-shooters !

Regards and happy wireworks as always

Urs

Urs Lauterburg

Physics demonstrator

Physikalisches Institute

University of Bern

Switzerland 

[FraggerFox]

Hi all,

I am trying to make a pipe mesh using 3d object VIs in LabVIEW. I tried with numerous ways, but I am not getting the perfect shape.

Can anyone suggest me how to do this?

[marekm]

I know this thread hasn't been replied to in quite a while but I was hoping one of you knowlegeble people will know how to (or better still, have an example of) exporting a 3D plot to STL file.

I can see lots of examples of opening STL files but I can't find any examples of saving to STL.

I have a scanning application that I need to export from.

Thanks!