Accessing the LabVIEW Robotics Environment (Robotics Module)

The Robotics Module provides a different environment than the LabVIEW Development System to allow you to easily access robotics-specific features and focus on developing robotics applications. To access the LabVIEW Robotics environment, select Start»All Programs»National Instruments»LabVIEW Robotics»LabVIEW Robotics x, where x is the version of the Robotics Module. (Windows 8) Click NI Launcher and select LabVIEW Robotics in the window that appears.

If LabVIEW is already open, select Tools»Choose Environment to display the Choose Environment Settings dialog box, which you can use to change environments.

In the LabVIEW Robotics environment, you can access Robotics specific tutorials and the Hardware Setup Wizard by clicking the Welcome link on the Robotics Getting Started window.