© National Instruments Corporation vii LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset User Manual
About This Manual
This manual provides information about the LabVIEW Order Analysis
Toolset, including system requirements, installation, and suggestions
forgetting started with order analysis and the toolset. The manual also
provides a brief discussion of the order analysis process and the algorithm
used by the LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset.

How to Use This Manual

If you are just beginning to gain experience with order analysis, read
Chapter2, Order Analysis, of this manual and experiment with the
Order Analysis Start-Up Kit. Refer to Chapter 1, Introduction to the
LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset, for information about the Order
Analysis Start-Up Kit.
If you have experience with order analysis, use the example VIs to
learn about how to use the LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset. Refer
to Chapter 1, Introduction to the LabVIEW Order Analysis Toolset,
for information about the example VIs.
If you want to learn more about the algorithm used in the LabVIEW
OrderAnalysis Toolset, refer to Chapter 3, Gabor Transform-Based Order
Tracking, and Chapter 4, Resampling-Based Order Analysis.
For information about individual VIs, refer to the Order Analysis Toolset
Help, available in LabVIEW 6.1 by selecting Help»Order Analysis.
In LabVIEW 7.0 and later, Order Analysis Toolset Help is part of the
LabVIEW Help, which is available by selecting Help»VI, Function,
&H ow-To Help.

Conventions

The following conventions appear in this manual:
»The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull down the File menu, select the PageSetup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.