Bringing in a Gerber file to LabView

I am writing an Emissons scanning program and would like to bring in a Gerber file (printed circuit board file) into LabView to overlay on the emissions data. What I am thinking is selecting this file and having the layout appear within LabView. I would then like to be able to move the picture around and overlay it with the scanned data. This would enable me to look at areas, componets, and traces of the board that are radiating energy for debugging purposes. Is this going to be much more complicated than it sounds? Right now I take the scanned data and import it into a program like Paint Shop Pro, and do the overlay there. This gets difficult because of all the scaling problems that arise trying to line everything up. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks

Ok, you where talking about the XY Chart earier on...
You can make the intensity graph transparent, but it's pointless. To make it transparent, you press Shift Right mouse, and select the paint tool, and select transparent. Do the same for the frame of the intensity graph, and you can look right through it. However, when you put data in it, all data will be represented oblique. So you still won't be able to look through.
The data you want on top of your picture has to be blend with the background. So, load the picture, and convert it to a 2D array (unflatten). Then, you need a mask color in your 2D intensity graph data that is transparent. Then, for each element in your data, check if it's the mask color, and if it is, display the background picture.
You also can do this with the picture control (if you have LV pro or full). Simply load the picture, and draw it in a picture control. Then, flatten the data so LabVIEW will see it as a picture. Add a mask to it with the mask VI, and draw it in the same picture control.
Then you'll have a intensity picture with a background picture.
Regards,
Wiebe.

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DGU wrote:
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