Creating an illuminated flowpath on the front panel

[ucbeoha]

Hi, I have a VI that controls a series of 3-way valves which switch at particular time point input by the controller.

I have created a panel of leds on the front panel which show which valves are on or off at that point in time (attached .pdf).

I was wondering whether there was a way to draw in the connecting pipes which would light up like the leds showing the flowpath at that point in time, similar to the illustration in the attached .pdf.

[falkpl]

You can customize booleans or color boxes or picture controls to achieve this, if you have the DSC toolkit there are pipes controls that do this as well.

Simplist is to make long skinny booleans with 2 different colors one for flow and one for no flow. 

There are many other ways to achieve this but it depends on how much time you want to spend on the GUI.

[ben64]

As Paul said it depend on how much time you want to spend on the GUI. You can use picture ring that you make transparent and using a graphic sw you draw your path, then make a copy with a different color for when the path is selected. Attached is an example.

Ben64

[falkpl]

Anything is possible, here are some custome controls I made, allows for color mixing, moves the arrows at a code specified rate to simulate the relative flow rates and chemical mixing in pipes.

[paul_a_cardinale · Accepted solution]

Boolean pipes are built-in, but not on the palette.

Right-click to add or remove segments.

[ben64]

Don't you need to have the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control Module installed to use Multi-Segment pipes?

Ben64

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@ben64 wrote:

Don't you need to have the LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control Module installed to use Multi-Segment pipes?

Ben64

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The pipes come with the DSC module, but the pipes are just controls, they'll work without the DSC module. However, getting (and using) the "pipes" without the DSC module might be a licensing issue. I don't know. NI?

Note that you can also use Decorations to achieve animation and color changes. It's much more code, but can be made to look nice, and once it's done, it's done. I can provide a simple example, but not at the moment. Anyone else?

[ucbeoha]

Hi All,

Thank you all for of your input.

I have managed to create a working flowsheet using different colour coded boolean pipes.

Thanks again!

[zilla]

"Boolean pipes are built-in, but not on the palette.

Right-click to add or remove segments."

Nice Tip! I wonder what else is built in like that....

[zilla]

Right-click to add or remove segments."

Nice Tip! I wonder what else is built in like that....