[michael714]

Thanks Danny. Your responses made the situation much more clear. There were two things that mislead me into believing that the LabVIEW software would allow us to work as a standalone simulator. One the statement in the software oveview which basically says, "you can use the LabVIEW software as a standalone simulator" and, two, the fact that FIRST sent us the LabVIEW software with no DAQ cable.

Fortunately, a local IEEE member says he has a USB 6008 cable that we can borrow and I'm going to see what I can do to use our Vex USB/serial converter cable for interfacing between our LabVIEW computer and the FRC dashboard.

Also, thank you for pointing out where in the tutorial to look for the info about using the FRC toolkit by itself with no dashboard and no DAQ- regardless of it's utility. I did go through the PowerPoint tutorial and the PDF tutorial, but I only started the video tutorials because they said you had to go through the PowerPoint first. And, in the PowerPoint, I couldn't figure out how to set LabVIEW up to actually go down Track B (simulated input).

I still think that it would be nice to be able to set LabVIEW up as a pure simulator, if for no other reason than being able to get used to it without having to have the robot present.

Again, thanks for your help.