LabVIEW Reviews & Product Details

You can get help from SUPER SUPER SMART programmers who know EXACTLY how to use LabVIEW. The hardware is superb! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

They are far away from me and they close early compared to Calif! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ease of controlling devices and various sensors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Can not program microprocessors in C++++ Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite feature is that it can develop and deploy any distribution from an installer, web service, .dll, library, anything in a self-contained system, all from one IDE. The visual programming interface helps reduce entry barriers for other engineering disciplines. It is a complete platform for analyzing, debugging, testing, compiling, distributing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Being so versatile, it is resource-intensive; I'd like to see it offer more slimmed-down deployment versions. So R&D projects can go to full-blown production while remaining in the same development environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LabVIEW Software Suite is simple to learn and absolutely the best of breed DAQ Hardware/Software platform for laboratory, industrial R&D through Manufacturing available.

It has the most extensive set of I/O adapters and communication protocols available for any DAQ, Measurement, or Control Platform.

It scales from the lowest level of simple I/O measurement to the fastest & largest system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Labview is highly customizable, requiring help to set up large complex systems correctly. Flexibility is an advantage for the experienced user, but the new user should get help configuring their first system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use LabView mostly to communicate with other instruments ( Oscope, function generator etc.)I think LabView is very intuitive and easy to use. The NiMax is also very helpful. The debug mode is very excellent to use as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The workspace can become very confusing at times. When you have to many blocks it is sometimes hard to realize which block is doing what. Also would be helpful if there was a pseudo code generator to see the logic in your code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Labview is a well-thought-out graphical coding language that makes interfacing with electrical lab equipment a breeze. It's easily transferrable between machines and runs quickly and efficiently, even on old machines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gathering drivers for old equipment can sometimes be a pain as they are hard to come by. Also, running loops in parallel will slow down the machine and even just editing the code by a ton. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have found nothing that the platform cannot handle. The wide array of DAQ options available, make connecting any sensor possible. I look forward to exploring additional capabilities as well in future projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it may be somewhat unavoidable, but as a beginner, I found the help resources quite challenging to navigate due to a lack of references to core principles, i.e. deeper explanations for data types, one-on-one support, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LabVIEW allows us to create applications for measurement and automation tasks relatively easily as well as use all the in-depth features for specific programming tasks, larger applications.

And still LabVIEW is an environment that is easy enough to understand and learn for beginners and other people in our company that don't write code on a daily basis but only support our development team from time to time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LabVIEW is very suitable for a quick start in development—especially tasks where you don't have much time to implement a neat-looking GUI. But for more complex UI designs, LabVIEW would not be my first choice at the moment. Primarily that's due to the lack of tools assisting such UI creations. If you have to use dynamically sized elements, want to create re-scaling UIs or automatically align elements in Grid/Table layouts, etc. - all that stuff is hard to do in LabVIEW at the moment.

Also, the requirement of the large LabVIEW Runtime installation is sometimes hard to communicate to customers. Even a small tool for parsing some files - which you could do in a few kilobytes in other Languages requires our customer to have the full LabVIEW Runtime installed for a couple of hundred megabytes. A way to strip down the components inside the Runtime installation (e.g., purposely keep out the components mathematics, database-stuff, plotting, and other libraries if the application does not explicitly require them), when you create an Installer package through the application builder would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not much. It seems simple on the surface and looks like it has a lot of built-in libraries. Still, we had to purchase additional licenses, and many of the built-in components were confusing and difficult to use correctly. I thought the UI concept would protect against common errors such as memory leaks, but I created one anyway. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Writing code using icons and connections is very time-consuming, and one must learn both the GUI development tool and the library of icons/language. The GUI development tool is buggy, and you are constantly re-arranging icons to keep the code readable.

Traditional tools such as version control are not present. You can not share and view the code for review w/o a License. There is a printing option, but the results are impossible to read.

If-then and case statements are concealed, only one case may be viewed at a time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LabVIEW lets me efficiently prototype DSP algorithms. However, for production code, I've started to lean on scipy and numpy since it doesn't have the license encumbrance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The difficulty with LabVIEW has always been the cost and licensing encumbrance. I just received notification that NI is moving to a subscription model for LabVIEW and will no longer be offering perpetual licenses, which is disappointing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.