Robotics-Running two stepper motors

Hi
I am working with LIFA (labview interface for arduino) to run two stepper motors to create a special (simple) path on XY plane. The example code (Arduino Stepper Motor.vi) works fine with one motor, but I don't know how I can modify it so that two motors can move with one time pushing the button, one after another while taking turns. Any Ideas? 
The motion plan is as follows: 1. Motor 2 is stationary and motor 1 moves the load for 100 steps in X direction, then it stops and motor 2 starts to move the load for 70 steps in Y direction. 
                                                       2. The same as 1, only the direction of motor 1 motion is reversed, and motor 2 moves 85 steps instead of 70 in the same direction.
                                                       3. Repetition of 1 and 2 for 4 times with different number of steps at each level.
I have twe big easy drivers, and one Arduino Uno.
I truly appreciate your help,
Best,
Ashkan

You could create a state machine.
You could create a movement recipe where you enter in each sequential movement, and the code steps through the recipe one movement at a time.
You could create some combination of 1 and 2.
How do you want it to work? Are these steps going to remain constant, or do you want to be able to change them from one run to the next? How much do you know about LV? Have you any code that you wrote? What is the long term goal -- are you building towards something specific or just learning for the sake of learning?
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