by Gill Birchmore | Mar 25, 2020 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments, Uncategorized
If you’re having a problem with a module throwing an error when it performs a certain action, consider adding a ‘pause on error’ as an alternative to a breakpoint. Sometimes it can be difficult to establish which action is causing the problem and for timing critical...
by Gill Birchmore | Jun 22, 2018 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments, The Austin Team, Uncategorized
Ever had the issue of loading a LabVIEW project up in an older version? Or do you wish to know what version of LabVIEW the project file was last saved in? There is a quick and simple way to check. You can view the .lvproj file in notepad by right clicking>Open...
by Gill Birchmore | Jun 14, 2018 | LabVIEW NXG, LabVIEW Tips, LabVIEW Toolkit, NI Week, Uncategorized
NIWeek 2018 This year NIWeek 2018, was attended on behalf of our team by Chris Thoroughgood – Head of Systems, Matt Collett – Head of Commercial, and Chris Garratt – Business Development Manager. Held in Austin, Texas, between 21 and 24 May NIWeek exhibition and...
by Gill Birchmore | Jan 23, 2018 | LabVIEW Tips, The Austin Team
There is a function in LabVIEW that allows the user to compare two VIs to check for any differences. This is very helpful for routing any issues that may occur when you change a working VI to add or adapt functionality. One note to make is that two individual VIs are...
by Gill Birchmore | Dec 6, 2017 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments, The Austin Team
In a LabVIEW application with lots of VI’s, it can be tricky to quickly navigate around your LabVIEW Project Explorer window. Pressing CTRL-SHIFT-E whilst within a VI will highlight where in the LabVIEW Project Explorer that VI is...
by Gill Birchmore | Oct 10, 2017 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments, The Austin Team
The conditional disable structure is great for simulating hardware. Use it when the hardware isn’t present on the development system to avoid the need for a ‘simulate hardware’ boolean to be toggled. ...
by Gill Birchmore | Sep 30, 2017 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments, The Austin Team
Most users know that CTRL-F will let you find something in LabVIEW (text, VI, primitive etc). Once you’ve searched, CTRL-G will cycle through the list. Perfect for searches with lots of hits!
by Gill Birchmore | Aug 30, 2017 | LabVIEW Tips, National Instruments
There is a hidden tool in LabVIEW that allows you to switch the inputs on 2 input primitives. Holding down control whilst hovering over an input will display the tool and a simple left click will swap the inputs over. This also works for the select...
by Gill Birchmore | Jul 27, 2017 | LabVIEW Tips, LabVIEW User Groups, National Instruments, The Austin Team
Have you ever wanted to link comments for particular parts of your code, or wanted to group comments together to allow other team members to work on certain actions? The use of bookmarks is a great feature to do this. By simply creating a comment on the block diagram...
