customizing artificial guages of cockpit

[RC-Freak]

Hi Folk,

... thats me again with a new play-tool. For those of you who are more interested in new digital altitude indicators like the style of a primary flight display indicator instead of the old school analog gauges, please take a glans on the attachment. Comments and new ideas are always welcome ...

Have fun,

Carsten

[Thoric]

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@RC-Freak wrote:

Hi Folk,

... thats me again with a new play-tool. For those of you who are more interested in new digital altitude indicators like the style of a primary flight display indicator instead of the old school analog gauges, please take a glans on the attachment. Comments and new ideas are always welcome ...

Have fun,

Carsten

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I think you meant glance, not glans 

[billko]

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@RC-Freak wrote:

Hi Folks,

For a Quadrocopter project I am trying to design my own cockpit. The most difficult challenge was the customizing of the needles for the gauges but ... i got it. Attached you will find my vertical speed indicator as a working example (LV10 VerticalSpeedGauge.vi). What do you mean? Every comment or improvments are highly appreciated. Also attached you will find a picture of my whole working cockpit instrument panel.

have fun ...

Best Regards

Carsten

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Wow.  Just.  Wow.

[RC-Freak]

... ups sorry, i felt a bit sheepish about it. .... glance is the right word. I am from Germany ....

cheers,
Carsten

[Thoric]

No worries! Just having some fun.

The digital altimeter is absolutely awesome! You've done a great job, and this shows off what can be achieved with a little effort and some predefined picture constants. If you wanted to make this more reusable, I'd recommend wrapping it into an XControl. There's a basic article on that here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-9982

[RC-Freak]

Hello Thoric,

... and yes, XControl sounds interesting ... but unfortunately I don't have a LabVIEW professional version available. With my version its not possible to create XControls 😞 . The other option is that somebody is willing to help me and can design a XControl out of my code. Would be very interesting for me to see how it works and how easy it can be handled afterwards in the code.

greetings ...

Carsten

[Thoric]

With an XControl you would aim to improve it to scale with changing panel sizes to make it truly re-usable. You have a number of fixed constants in your code which presumably relate to the dimensions of the image with some pre-determined offsets. These would need to be dynamic to make it a scaleable graphic.

I'd love to do this myself, but I don't have time. Sorry.