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Ever wondered how long your code really is? Ever wanted to know, how many wires have you actually laid? Would all the wires from your project allow you to finally escape your office through the window if you'd tie them together?
Here's a tool that let you answer all those questions, asked by generations of LabVIEW programmers!
Enjoy!
Instructions: unzip attached archive. Inside you'll find two versions of the project:
- WireLength_2012 is original and tested project, I recommend using this one
- WireLength_2009 is project saved to LV2009. I've slightly adjusted GUI (no silver palete in LV2009 ;( ) and haven't tested it (but I think it'll work just fine)
Pick your version and run _Main.vi, then follow the instructions. Enjoy! 
PiDi, this is fantastic! I ran it on your WireLength project itself, which comes to...2.68 meters of wires!
I guess I'll have to start using lots of local variables and overlapping block diagram items to keep my wire score down. 
Thanks, Matt!
My record project so far is ~260 meters long, but I'm sure I can do much better And using local variables is like using electric arc to pass the signal through electronic circuit
1m=100cm, not 1000cm.
Yes, banshouren, but lets call it a feature, not a bug This is purely spelling mistake. The pixel/cm ratio is also not as I initially intended. However, many people have already downloaded it and tried. Therefore I decided to left those two things, so we all have the same scale to compare our codes 
Cool. My newest project has 26m of wires...
And maybe I overdid it a bit when I put your program on a quite big project. It's now running for 20minutes just loading (not calculating) and consumes more than 1.3GB of memory.
Now I'm really wondering if it will crash or spit out an awesome result
