How to put solenoid valve and other intrument symbols on a LabVIEW Front panel to create a P&ID Diagram of a process?

[Controls_Engineer]

I want to recreate the P&ID of a process on the LabVIEW Front Panel and want to know if that is possible. For example I need a valve symbol on the front panel that acts like a boolean indicator and will change colors to indicate if the valve is open or close. Similrly I need other symbols or bitmaps for pumps, blowers, heaters, temperature and pressure sensors etc.

Please help.

Thanks.

[Ben]

For the most part you can just copy images from your clipboard and paste them onto the FP.

If you want to make your own controls and indicators then tst taught us how to do this in his Control Customization Nugget.

If you have LV-DSC it ships with ready made pipes and valves and also includes an "Image Navigator" that has lots of images and can export them as wmf files ready to use in tst's outline.

This image used all of the above plus an XControl i wrote to show the temperature gradiants.

Have fun!

But why trust me? Wait for what Counsel has to say.

Ben

Message Edited by Ben on 10-17-2007 02:49 PM

[Conseils]

You might be looking for this kind of toolkit
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/1438

But with effort and imagination you can do most of this kind of thing with LabVIEW. You should look for the following for help with some techniques :-
http://sine.ni.com/niforum/niforum?forumDU=http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=217287&requireLogin=False
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=209036&requireLogin=False
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=174549&requireLogin=False
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=BreakPoint&message.id=14

That should cover just about all the things you might want to do....

Well Bens picture says it all.....

Message Edited by Conseils on 10-17-2007 09:47 PM