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LabView Thermocouple Tutorial

This document provides instructions for creating a subVI in LabVIEW. It describes designing the icon and connector pane for a VI that determines a warning string based on temperature inputs. The subVI is tested by placing it in a blank VI and connecting controls and indicators. Creating the subVI involves adding error handling, selecting a connector pane pattern, wiring the inputs/outputs, designing an icon, and modifying the block diagram to execute conditionally based on errors.

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LabView Thermocouple Tutorial

This document provides instructions for creating a subVI in LabVIEW. It describes designing the icon and connector pane for a VI that determines a warning string based on temperature inputs. The subVI is tested by placing it in a blank VI and connecting controls and indicators. Creating the subVI involves adding error handling, selecting a connector pane pattern, wiring the inputs/outputs, designing an icon, and modifying the block diagram to execute conditionally based on errors.

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Maureen LaFayette
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Exercise: SubVIs

Publish Date: Jul 02, 2008 | 19 Ratings | 1.21 out of 5

Overview
This exercise will walk you through creating subVIs and modularity. It will show you how to create the icon and connector panes for the subVI.

Table of Contents
Goal
Create the icon and connector pane for a VI so that you can use the VI as a subVI.

Scenario
You have created a VI that determines a warning string based on the inputs given. Create an icon and a connector pane so that you can use this VI as a subVI.

Design
The subVI contains the following inputs and outputs: Inputs Current Temp Max Temp Min Temp Warning Text Warning? Outputs

Use the standard connector pane to assure room for future expansion. Add error clusters to the VI so that the code runs if there is no error, but does not run if there is an error.

Implementation
1. Open the Determine Warnings VI located at the bottom of this page. 2. Add an error input cluster and an error output cluster to the VI. Add an Error In 3D.ctl to the front panel. Add an Error Out 3D.ctl to the front panel. 3. Select a connector pane pattern for the VI. Right-click the icon in the upper-right corner of the window and select Show Connector from the shortcut menu. Right-click the connector pane in the upper-right corner of the window, select Patterns, from the shortcut menu, and choose the pattern shown at left. 4. Connect the inputs and outputs to the connector as shown in the following figure.

Using the wiring tool, click the upper-left terminal of the connector pane. Click the corresponding front panel control, Current Temp. Notice that the connector pane terminal fills in with a color to match the data type of the control connected to it. Click the next terminal in the connector pane. Click the corresponding front panel control, Max Temp. Continue wiring the connector pane until all controls and indicators are wired, and the Context Help window matches that shown in the previous figure. 5. Create an icon. Right-click the connector pane and select Edit Icon. The Icon Editor window opens. Use the tools in the Icon Editor window to create an icon. Make the icon as simple or as complex as you want, however, it should be representative of the function of the VI. The figure below shows a simple example of an icon for this VI.

Click OK when you are finished to close the Icon Editor window. Tip: Double-click the selection tool to select the existing graphic. Press the <Delete> key to delete the graphic. Then, double-click the rectangle tool to automatically create a border for the icon. Tip: Double-click the text tool to modify fonts. You can select Small Fonts to choose fonts smaller than 9 points in size. 6. Right-click the connector pane and select Show Icon from the shortcut menu to return to Icon view.

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6. Right-click the connector pane and select Show Icon from the shortcut menu to return to Icon view. 7. Save the VI. 8. Switch to the block diagram. 9. Set the VI to execute if no error occurs, and not execute if an error occurs. Surround the block diagram code with a Case structure as shown in the figure below. Leave the Warning Text and Warning? indictors outside of the Case structure.

Wire the error in control to the case selector terminal. Confirm that the block diagram is in the No Error case. If it is not, switch to the case containing the code, right-click the Case structure and select Make this Case No Error from the shortcut menu. Wire the error cluster through the Case structure to the error out indicator as shown in the above figure. Switch to the Error case. Wire the error cluster through the case to the error out tunnel. Right-click the Warning? tunnel and select CreateConstant from the shortcut menu. Use the Operating tool to change the constant to True. Right-click the Warning Text tunnel and select CreateConstant from the shortcut menu. Enter Error in the constant. Confirm that you have completed the Error case as shown in the figure below.

If an error enters the VI, the VI outputs Error in Warning Text, and True in Warning? and passes the error out of the VI. If an error does not enter the VI, the VI operates as originally designed. 1. Save and close the VI.

Test
Use a blank VI to test the subVI. 1. Open a blank VI. 2. Open the block diagram. 3. Place the Determine Warnings subVI on the block diagram of the blank VI by selecting the Select a VI option on the Functions palette and navigating to where you saved the previous VI. 4. Create controls and indicators for each item in the subVI. Right-click the Current Temp input and select CreateControl from the shortcut menu. Right-click the Max Temp input and select CreateControl from the shortcut menu. Right-click the Min Temp input and select CreateControl from the shortcut menu. Right-click the Warning Text output and select CreateIndicator from the shortcut menu. Right-click the Warning? output and select CreateIndicator from the shortcut menu. 5. Switch to the front panel. 6. Enter test values in Current Temp, Max Temp, and Min Temp. 7. Run the VI. 8. After you have finished testing, close the test VI. You do not need to save the test VI. End of Exercise Tutorial Video Dataflow, Debugging, and SubVIs Modules Home FIRST Community

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