Community Edition Functionality?

[akime9]

Hi!

I'm taking a course on LabVIEW next semester, and it's a class that's notoriously hard at my university. My plan is to practice using the software on my own beforehand so that I'll be better equipped when the course comes, so I'm considering downloading the Community Edition.

I'd like to know, though; how does the Community Edition of LabVIEW compare to the standard Base edition? The National Instruments website goes into detail on the differences between the paid versions, but doesn't say anything about how the Community Edition compares aside from mentioning that it's prohibited for use in commercial or formal settings. Should I assume, then, that it's essentially the same as the Base version?

Thanks.

[Quiztus2]

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@akime9 wrote:

 Should I assume, then, that it's essentially the same as the Base version?

Thanks.

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Yes, it's basically the same.

I started Labview a year ago. From my perspective LabVIEW is not harder or easier when it comes to general programming, since you have to know types well. It has it's advantages when it comes to more advanced topics. E.g. parallelization is basically a right-click and you are done. 

[PalanivelThiruvenkadam]

Community Edition has all of the capabilities found in the LabVIEW Professional editions.

Note: You cannot use this for commercial Purpose.

[altenbach]

More specifically, the windows versions contains all features of the professional version AND also includes All tools for certain external hardware and web development.

Have you looked at this page? All the information is there!!

One current limitation is that the community edition for Windows is only available in 32 bit. (Which of course works fine on a 64bit OS!. A 64bit version is only really needed if you require gigantic data spaces, which is not typical. Performace is quite similar.

As has been said, it is not for commercial use and also not to be used for required course work in higher education (K-12 is OK!). Since you are using it for your own learning before the course, I would assume it is OK. Once you start the course, the university will have licenses for that. (details)

VIs are fully interchangeable between version.