Question about using labView in FRC

[michael714]

Hello,
I have the same question, but I'd like to expand a bit. In the FRC Software overview manual, it says this about the toolkit:

This robot modeling and simulation toolkit allows teams to prototype, develop, and test robot code on the FRC Robot Controller without the need of a robot.

Unfortunately, the only place that the same manual says to go for info is the NI LabVIEW FRC robot modeler thread in the Chief Delphi forums. At that thread, all replies are closed. The thread had several nice links, but none of the links give any indication about how to use LabVIEW as a standalone simulator. The tutorials have track A, B, and C and track B is supposed to be for simulation. However, it indicates that NI-DAQ needs to be installed and that does not come with the trial software that can be downloaded from NI (the one that is linked to from the LabVIEW thread here at Chief Delphi). The LabVIEW thread does say to download and install NI-VISA, but it doesn't say how that helps or what to do with it.

If you install and run LabVIEW, there is no indication on how to pull up the FRC simulation kit. If you use browse, you have to dig around quite a bit in order to find the stuff from the Zip file. Once you find it, the installation test with no dashboard does load- thank God. However, the Simulation Envirnonment - no dashboard won't load because it can't find a missing DLL.

Also, I'm still trying to figure out how LabVIEW is supposed to simulate the cmucam2. I've downloaded stuff from NI, from kevin.org/frc, from the Chief Delphi forums and it's still not obvious to me where the cmucam2_demo.llb should be placed or what to do to pull up the camera simulation from within LabVIEW.

I'm not trying to rant here, I'm just looking for help and want you to know that it's not for lack of effort on my part. Any advice would be appreciated.