used license

[mjackson]

I would like to buy or lease your unused LabView license.

I'm an independent software engineer, working mainly in Microsoft .NET and related technologies. I'm interested in obtaining a full time position with a company in the aerospace industry. This job description for this position includes LabView requirements. I've never used LabView, therefore I need to learn it, but I cannot afford a license from NI.

Does anyone have an unused license that they are willing to allow me to use for a period of time, to purchase at a very affordable price or rent/lease for a period of time.

Thanks,

Michael

[altenbach]

You can download any NI software and it will fully work in evaluation mode for 30 days. There are no feature limitations during evaluation.

You can activate it at any time with a valid code later.

[jyang72211]

Did you download a evaluation copy?

http://digital.ni.com/demo.nsf/websearch/14F9CE475127ADE786256AC60070926C?OpenDocument&node=157200_US 

[mjackson]

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've considered the eval copy, but I seriously doubt I could learn the product well enough in 30 days.

Thanks,

Michael

[JÞB]

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@mjackson wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've considered the eval copy, but I seriously doubt I could learn the product well enough in 30 days.

Thanks,

Michael

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In that case.  Forward my profile to the contact- in 11 years I learned a FEW things about LabVIEW. 

[jcarmody]

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@mjackson wrote:

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've considered the eval copy, but I seriously doubt I could learn the product well enough in 30 days.

Thanks,

Michael

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With dilligent effort, you could learn a lot in 30 days.

[F._Schubert]

I'd say you can learn LV in 3 days (this is based on 5.1 when I was introduced to it). You won't be able to write good software then, but you can make code that's reading a DMM for a lab test. Anything else, you need a real project to work on to get real world experience. And then the experience is counted as years of being professional - Be able to architect larger projects each time and get more sophisticated soltuions each time (state machines, producer/consumer up to LVOOP). Depending on your past experience/knownledge, you will be faster.

If you really are sure you need more than 30 days, there are some options. IMPORTANT: You need to check if it's LEGAL use (read the licenses)! There were some student licenses distributed with books on LabVIEW. It won't be the latest, would cost just the price of the book, I have no clue about the license, again check the licenses if this is leagal for your situation.

If I remember correctly, there was a 6.1(?) version available from an ftp server at NI.com. You could google it. No idea if it is still existant, or whatever licenses was given with it. And 6.1 is very old and the IDE has improved/changed a lot (and .NET was not really the word these days). And, again check the licenses if this is leagal for your situation.

Now some hints for learning:

Don't use Express VIs. You would get the wrong idea of LabVIEW as being not able to write programs, and your goal is to be a LabVIEW-programmer.

I'd recommend you to get LabVIEW for everyone. I think it's not coming with a student version, but the best book to teach you the basics, the author is among the most respected people in this community, and it has a cool list of training activities to get you familiar with LabVIEW.

Felix

[mjackson]

Good info. Thanks for taking the time to answer in such detail. I will most definetly look into the books you mention.

Michael

[jcarmody]

There's another avenue if you're interested in using Lego Mindstorms as a learning platform.  I posted a link here to a free copy of LabVIEW 7.1 Student Edition.