How to use the Document/View architecture in MFC

Question

I'm still working on a Data Acquisition program in MFC and am getting stuck working with the Document/View architecture. Basically, I want my application to have a couple windows. One is used to show a video that's recorded from a high speed camera, another has a plot displaying data from the DAQ system, and maybe another has controls for configuring the camera and DAQ, etc.

So, really I have a lot of modeless windows each showing a portion of the data, usually from a different source. Now, going through and using the App Wizard I get confused with the Doc/View stuff, and even though I can turn it off, it isn't technically off. Now that aside, I've tried opening modeless Dialogs and FormViews all to no success. Mostly I just can't figure out how to open the new View, the documentation isn't really helpful. I've been able to open a Modal plotting dialog from a Ribbon Button command and I mark that as a success, but not exactly what I need.

So, does anyone have helpful insight on fitting my application to the Doc/View architecture or opening a modeless dialog or FormView from within another application. I should say I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and I'm using MFC and C++.

EDIT:

So, I've gone with MDI and will have one document that handles all the data to be shown. What I am stuck on now is how to create the multiple windows I want. I sublcassed CFormView to be the graph View of the document, and I am trying to create that window when I click a menu button. I was able to do it with a modal Dialog, like this:

void CDAQUniversalApp::OnScopebtn()
{
    // TODO: Add your command handler code here
    CScopeDlg dlg = new CScopeDlg(); //CScopeDlg is Subclass of CDialog
    dlg.DoModal();
}

That worked, but not what I want, so I tried this, and it didn't work at all:

    m_pScopeTemplate = new CMultiDocTemplate(
        IDD_SCOPEFORMVIEW,
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CDAQUniversalDoc),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CMDIChildWnd),
        RUNTIME_CLASS(CScopeFormView)); //Subclass of CFormView
    if (!m_pScopeTemplate)
        return FALSE;

void CDAQUniversalApp::OnScopebtn()
{
    // TODO: Add your command handler code here
    CMDIChildWnd* pFrame = NULL;
    pFrame = DYNAMIC_DOWNCAST(CMDIChildWnd, CWnd::GetActiveWindow());
    CMDIChildWnd *pScopeFrame = (CMDIChildWnd*)m_pScopeTemplate->CreateNewFrame(pFrame->GetActiveDocument(), NULL);
    if (pScopeFrame == NULL)
        return;
    m_pScopeTemplate->InitialUpdateFrame(pScopeFrame, pFrame->GetActiveDocument(), TRUE);

}

This just causes an unhandled exception. I really just bruteforced my way to that point finding various largely unhelpful sections of documentation code and modifying it to what I think I need.