where is the manual for LABView NXG?

[kajaki]

I may be having a blonde moment but I cannot find the (full) user manual for LABView NXG. I am using v3.02. After various searches and scrolling I can find a page called nxg manual but this lists a collection of random topics dealing with what is different in the new version of LABView (which is of no use to me as I am a new user using only NGX). What I need is the full manual (with index and appendix) for NGX. Does this exist? 

[JÞB]

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@kajaki wrote:

I may be having a blonde moment but I cannot find the (full) user manual for LABView NXG. I am using v3.02. After various searches and scrolling I can find a page called nxg manual but this lists a collection of random topics dealing with what is different in the new version of LABView (which is of no use to me as I am a new user using only NGX). What I need is the full manual (with index and appendix) for NGX. Does this exist? 

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Referring to the ReadMe file. It is accessed via the top right search bar.  Its not a coincidence that they named that file ReadMe 

[Hooovahh]

While the ReadMe is useful I don't think you will find a single manual that covers all topics associated with LabVIEW.  LabVIEW is a programming language, and like any language doesn't really have an end.  There are many books written on the subject of LabVIEW, or even just one small area of one subject of LabVIEW.  You could spend your whole career on automated vision inspection for instance and not know all there is to know about how it applies to LabVIEW.  The LabVIEW Wiki is a good place to start for training and has links to all kinds of online videos and resources.  But you won't be able to find all the information on LabVIEW in one place any more than you'd be able to find all information on the topic of "English".  Words are always being added, or having new meanings, or having their meanings or spelling changed.

Other than that I'd say open the help and explore the various functions.

[MichaelBalzer]

I take it you're referring to this NXG manual? Yeah, it's not great. None of NXG's documentation really meets the high standard set by LabVIEW, presumably because NXG itself is still being changed and updated. The web-based help and offline manual viewer help are awful to navigate too (clicking the '+' in the nav tree should not refresh the whole page, NI).

Was there anything in particular you wanted to read about? NXG isn't too dissimilar to LabVIEW, so many of the concepts and features are interchangeable (to a certain extent, and with some changes in nomenclature). LabVIEW's help is far better than NXG's, and there are CHM downloads available here (download links are on the right of the page, start with lvhelp.chm from the zip file). It's only help files though, not a manual proper.

There is an old PDF manual for LabVIEW available here, but it is a little dated (2001). Even so many of the concepts will still be applicable to NXG.

[kajaki]

Thank you. I had read the readme and looked at the on-line manual pointed to by the link. However this is not a proper manual, this is random collection of articles. I am a complete and utter newbie to labview so my needs are many. Perhaps this on-line manual works for experienced users such as yourself but most definitely not for newbies.

[kajaki]

Thank you for the wiki link - very handy. There is a lot of good info up there, just not very easy to find. Thank you again.

[kajaki]

Great reply Micheal, thank you. (Sometimes it's just enough to know you're not the only one). The old PDF is extremely useful, thank you for that, as is the change in terminology and the links to the chm downloads. 

Thank you Hooovahh for the wiki link.

For any future readers of this post, I'm finding the participant's guide in NXG Core 1 on-line course helpful.