LabVIEW includes hundreds of example VIs you can use and incorporate into your own VIs. You can modify an example to fit your application, or you can copy and paste from one or more examples into your own VI.
Complete the following steps to browse or search the example VIs.
Select Help»Find Examples to display the Find Examples dialog box. You also can click the Find Examples button on the LabVIEW dialog box to display the Find Examples dialog box.
Use the Browse or Search tab to find an example VI. When you select a VI on either tab, LabVIEW displays the VI description in the Example description field.
On the Browse tab, select Task to browse the examples by functionality or select Directory Structure to browse the examples by directory structure. Double-click the folders and LLBs in the middle listbox to display the example VIs in each category or directory.
On the Search tab, type a keyword to search for in the Type a keyword to find text box and select a keyword in the list of keywords to display related examples in the middle listbox. You also can place the cursor in the list of keywords and type part of a keyword or use shortcut keys to navigate the list of keywords.
Double-click an example VI in the middle listbox to open it.
Click the Visit Developer Zone button to visit the NI Developer Zone on the Web for more LabVIEW example VIs.
Note If you add .llb or .vi files to the labview\examples directory, you can select Help»Find Examples to browse them by directory structure, but you cannot browse them by functionality or search them by keyword.