Finding Example VIs

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Double-click an example VI in the middle listbox to open it.
  4. 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.