Placing elements several times

[skampf]

This is a pretty basic question, so I'm not sure if there really is no answer yet or if I only used the wrong keywords... I'm using LabView 2015 (Evaluation) on Win7

I've come across the situation several times, where I wanted to place the same element several times (both frontpanel and block diagram). One example: say I have three inputs A, B and C, and I want to calculate (a-c)/(b-c), then I need two subtractions. What I would like to do is click on "subtraction" in the functions palette once and then on the block diagram twice to place two subtraction elements where I need them and do the wiring afterwards. Currently, I select subtraction, place the first subtraction element, then have to go back to the palette and select it again. Is there any hotkey I can use / option that I can set to keep the selection active?

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi skampf,

- you can copy&paste in the block diagram

- you can ctrl+move with the mouse to copy a BD node

- you can use quickdrop

[skampf]

Thanks for the fast reply! I found the ctrl+move does the trick for me

[Yamaeda]

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@skampf wrote:

 Currently, I select subtraction, place the first subtraction element, then have to go back to the palette and select it again. Is there any hotkey I can use / option that I can set to keep the selection active?

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With Quick drop you can press ctrl+space and write 'sub' to get to your subtraction fast and easy.

If you then Select the subtraction block and press ctrl+space, ctrl+d you'll create and connect controls and indicators to all available connectors of the function. Can't go much faster than that. 🙂

/Y