1st year labview noob question

[VrewDaive]

So our team up until this year has run all of our robots on java, This year however they have decided to switch to labview because in the long term it is easier and more resources for help. Ive ran through multiple tutorials and still feel buried in the expansiveness of labview, My question, In the creation of the labview project you get to choose what drive you want, I selected the mecanum with arm and found the code in the teleop.VI. My question is with the code that it gives me for mecanum drive, http://imgur.com/AlZOSdt , how do i assign motors to " four motors" drive? any help appreciated. Thanks alot!

[VrewDaive]

Would something like this work? http://imgur.com/E6CGZXM sorry for noob question

[Mark McLeod]

That is the right approach, but in the wrong place.

The number of motors are set in Begin.vi.
Look there for an Open 2 Motors and replace it with the Open 4 Motors.

The reason you want to Open the motors in Begin.vi is that it only gets called once to set things up.
Teleop.vi gets called 50 times a second, so Opening something there will try to create it 50 times a second.

[VrewDaive]

Thanks for the reply! And will do. Sorry for the bad phrasing of the question but I greatly appreciate it.

[Robomarfa]

Good luck! We are a second year team. We got LabView running in Week 4 of build in our Rookie year and still made it to World!

We are better off this year and just beginning to see how to use the software in a smart way. It will be years before we have explored all the features, meanwhile new features will continue to be developed. I am impressed with how quickly students can pick it up. The edit/deploy cycle is incredibly fast for trying out different ideas.

Our next goal is to get Vision working with LabView.