Connect - Implementing Examples

Four example projects will be discussed:

• A Bridge,
• Beam Deflection due to a Force,
• Rotor-Based Carnival Ride, and
• A Dampened Mass-Spring System.

Each of the projects consists of three main components:

• the physics server,
• the LabView GUI and
• Inventor visualization clients.

The Bridge
beam deflection due to an applied force
make_beam()

Beam Deflection due to a Force

Rotor-based Carnival Ride

Dampened Mass-Spring System
The dampened mass-spring system project simulates the effect of a dampener on a mass-spring system given an initial displacement and velocity. LabView inputs include the dampener constant, the spring constant and displacement, and the mass weight. These values are sent to the server, which then invokes the compute() function and solves a differential equation for the instantaneous velocity and displacement. The computed values are then sent to the Inventor client which scales the spring in proportion to the current displacement. The computed values are also sent to LabView, which creates a graph of displacement and velocity versus time.