VI High 16: LabVIEW 2011 New Feature - How to Create a SubVI

We took a bit of a VI High summer vacation (stretching well into fall…) but we’re back with several new, shorter videos on new features in LabVIEW 2011. Our first one has to do with the improvements in creating subVIs.

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Experience Level: Basic

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“In LabVIEW 2011, there are some improvements when you create subVI’s. So if I were to click and highlight this section of code, go to Edit, and then Create SubVI, my SubVI has been made.

I double-click, open up the front panel, and we see that we have a connector pane right here, with our connections already made. So if I click on the terminal, I see the corresponding object highlighted.

I can always change this pattern, so the default pattern in LabVIEW 2011 is 4x2x2x4. I can always right-click, go to Patterns, and see other available ones. Though, this is the recommended.

If I go to my block diagram, of course, I see the code, or the subVI. Right now, we just have Untitled 1 (SubVI), so I’ll go to Save, and I’ll call it, ‘Area of a Triangle subVI 2.’”

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