LabVIEW 7 Express Evaluation Tutorial CD for a Learning Center

[shannonm]

Hi,

I was given a LabVIEW 7 Express CD and instructed to see what it would take to make it work in our Learning Center.

I did discover that disk 1 was a self contained tutorial (NI has my gratitude for that, by the way, nothing to install makes it very portable for the learner!).

Disk 2 has an evaluation copy of LabVIEW that is good for 30 days.

So what happens if someone wants to use the CD in the Learning Center and installs the evaluation copy on the station, and then someone else at a later time wants to use the evaluation copy on the same station?

Can it be reinstalled for that computer or is that stations' use of the evaluation copy expired?


Shannon

[tst]

The evaluation version can not be reinstalled on the same machine and work (actually, it almost certainly can, and it's probably fairly easy, but I'm not sure how legal that is).

What you might want to do is contact your local NI office and see if you can get the student edition of LV (which is significantly cheaper) or buy the base version, which is cheaper ("only" a 1000$), but probably not really worth it, because it almost doesn't support anything (can't configure events and so on).

Another option, if you're always the one tutoring, is to ask NI if you can use the license differently. They have recently made changes to the license allowing you to install your version on several computers as long as you're the only one using it and it's not being used at two places concurrently. While this doesn't apply to 7.0, you may be able to convince them to let you do this. They are usually reasonable when it comes to things like this.

[shannonm]

Hi,

Thanks for your information.  I will pass it on to my supervisors.

Shannon