HOW TO CONVERT THE ACQUIRED IMAGE TO AUTOCAD FILE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DRAWING

[embedded systems engineer]

Hi
iam working with NICVS 1454 And Labview,Iam planning to interface 3 colour cameras .Now i would like acqire the image of a object ,and i would like to measure the data such as all geometric 2-D parameters like distances, curves, circles, angular measurements, After this i would like to convert measured data to AUTOCAD file for the purpose of generating drawings of unknown products.How to do this help needed.

Regards
NARASIMHAJB

[Jack J.]

Hello Narasimha

You can use the various Vision functions to calculate the geometric features of your images. However, as for your second task, AutoCAD saves its files in a proprietry binary format. AutoCAD may read in text files that can be translated into drawing. But you will need to find out how AutoCAD will read the text files and then write those files from LabVIEW.

You second option would be to use ActiveX. I believe AutoCAD is an ActiveX server and so you can control it from LabVIEW. Basically you will need to PROGRAMATICALLY draw your diagram from your measurements in Vision.

Either way would involve a lot of programming on your part. If you would like to post the underlying reason for your question, maybe we can figure out another way to solve your problem.

Regards,

Jack J.
Product Support Engineer
National Instruments