AutoCAD in LabVIEW

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

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).
Caleb Harris
National Instruments | Mechanical Engineer | http://www.ni.com/support

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Can we read AutoCAD drawing from LabView????

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Not really an answer, but some ideas:
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eh,
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This is the beauty of LV, it make us better engineers and technicians, it does not waste our time on trivial stuff like syntax.
This is not to say that some very excellent programmers have not pushed and pushed LV so that it is now a very useful programming tool. But, the primary point of LV is not the progamming itself.
Most employers want someone who can solve real problems first and use software second. (I see the same thinking with CAD software. Learning Pro/E or AutoCAD is all well and good, but what can you DO? I
t is relatively easy to gain proficiency with CAD compared to gaining proficiency as an engineer.)
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