Reflect - Implementing Examples

Take a look at the project websites for preceeding semesters. This is the format you will need to adhere to when creating your own project website.

Try downloading the source to one of the projects. Look at the networking and try to identify the server creating the socket, LabView writing the input values to the server and the server reading those values, Inventor reading the computed values and the server writing those values.

Take a look at the Network Diagram on the project's website. Compare the various read() and write() calls you discovered to the diagram. This may seem a bit mundane, but properly synchronizing read() and write() calls is a significant portion of the project.

Open the LabView client and see if you can identify any constant variables as well as any dynamic ones. How does LabView terminate the while loop? Have you seen other projects implement this differently?

Open the Inventor file with gview and take a look at a few of the nodes. After reading the project website, which nodes do you think will be changed to model the physical system?

Lastly, try running the project and changing the dynamic variables. If you've choosen your project, how is this project similar?

In the next section, Extend, you will begin to create your own physical simulation.