multiple labview versions on single machine

[pritam]

Is recommended by NI.... to install multiple LabVIEW versions (eg. 8.2 & 8.5) on single PC?

I've obseved its headache for people to maintain multiple LabVIEW versions on single pc, but in some cases its required to do so to work on different codes which are developed in different versions.

[Eriquito]

Hi Pritam,

All of the Applications Engineers here at National Instruments have LabVIEW 7.1, LabVIEW 8.0, LabVIEW 8.2, and LabVIEW 8.5 installed on our systems, as we still provide technical support for all of these versions.

There are no major issues with this.  There are some minor headaches;  installing certain toolkits, modules, and drivers will always install to the latest version that you have on your system, and will need to be copied manually into the directories of the prior versions.  Also, the last version that you opened will always be the default version that opens when you double-click a VI in Windows Explorer.  The obvious workaround is to always open the appropriate version first (from the Windows start menu) and then open the VI you wish to edit from within that version.

Let me know if you have any more specific questions and I will try to answer them.

[Sinha]

Hello Mr Eric

Can you guide me how to have both LabVIEW 7.1 and SVT 4.0 OAT 2.1 ( in one drive one PC) along with labVIEW 8.5 with S&V Measurment Suite 5.0 or 6.0 in another drive of PC. I have been able to install all except OAT 2.1 with LabVIEW 7.1

S. K. Sinha

[Jeff_T.]

S.K. Sinha,

The Order Analysis Toolkit and the Sound & Vibration Measurement Suite both installs VIs that call into an OAT dll in your system32 directory.  Unfortunately the OAT dll is not backward compatible so OAT 2.1 cannot work on the same machine that also has the Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite.

Jeff Tipps
Product Support Engineer - Sound and Vibration
National Instruments