Drawing within the camera portion of driver station

[Alan Anderson]

If you're not comfortable modifying the Dashboard program, you can try the low-tech approach the TechnoKats drive team has used for the past couple of years. They affix a piece of thin Lexan over the screen and draw on it with a Sharpie.

[BurkeHalderman]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

If you're not comfortable modifying the Dashboard program, you can try the low-tech approach the TechnoKats drive team has used for the past couple of years. They affix a piece of thin Lexan over the screen and draw on it with a Sharpie.

^This. It's so easy and requires no effort at all. In the past we've used scotch tape to make the cross-hairs on the screen. This is also super easy and works great.

[Greg McKaskle]

Nothing wrong with low-tech, but if you want to learn another way -- the attached photo shows the vision loop modified to draw a horizontal line from 0,100 to 320,100 in red.

You will then need to build the dashboard and choose to have yours run instead of the default. There is a tutorial on the Getting Started dialog about making a custom dashboard.

Greg McKaskle

[xXhunter47Xx]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

If you're not comfortable modifying the Dashboard program, you can try the low-tech approach the TechnoKats drive team has used for the past couple of years. They affix a piece of thin Lexan over the screen and draw on it with a Sharpie.

Man has a point. Why make it difficult on yourself when there's easier methods out there?

[taichichuan]

If you're using one of the Axis cameras, it's possible to upload a mask to the camera itself. Just create your overlay as a .bmp from Microsoft Paint and upload it to the camera. You'll find menus on the camera for managing the overlay. We've used this several times in the past for putting a vertical, center line on the driver's display without needed to program the Labview dashboard code.

HTH,

Mike