NI LabView 2020 Community Edition

The LabVIEW development team is pleased to announce the availability of LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition. This new, free version of LabVIEW is for noncommercial, nonacademic use.

LabVIEW Community Edition features all the functionality of LabVIEW Professional Edition, including the ability to help you build and deploy executables. Most importantly, it is completely free and does not have any watermarks on it. In a nutshell:

- It’s completely free for non-commercial, non-academic use
- It is the professional version of LabVIEW and LabVIEW NXG with no restrictions in functionality
- It does not have any watermarks
- It does include Application Builder
- The LabVIEW version includes an updated version of the LINX toolkit, which adds support for targeting BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. LINX also includes the API for talking to an Arduino Uno
- The LabVIEW NXG version includes a free copy of the LabVIEW Web Module
- You can download it now from ni.com/beta
- The final release will be announced this May at NIWeek along-side the release of LabVIEW 2020

The LINX Toolkit adds support for deploying to BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi which enables engineers to use the power of LabVIEW for hobbies and tinkering.

- It is included in the installer for the LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition
- It will be available as a toolkit that can be used for commercial purposes when installed with a licensed version of LabVIEW
- We’ve updated support for newer versions of the Debian OS since 2014 and tested it against the latest Raspberry Pi 4 board


LabVIEW Community Edition will replace LabVIEW Home when it releases this May, which was a low-cost edition with limited functionality.

But you must use it only for noncommercial and nonacademic projects. According to the NI End User License Agreement (EULA), “If you have acquired a license to LabVIEW Community Edition or LabVIEW NXG Community Edition, you may use the Software solely for your personal, noncommercial, nonindustrial purposes. You may not use the Software for teaching or research at a degree-granting educational institution.”

Using LabVIEW Community Edition at a place of business or to create test systems, exe's, toolkits, and so on that you intend to make money from would not be consistent with the permissions of the EULA. Similarly, students, educators, and researchers would break the EULA if they used LabVIEW Community Edition to work on coursework or research for an academic institution.

LabVIEW Community Edition is for anybody not pursuing commercial goals but wanting to get creative using a graphical programming language.

For example, you can work on a private project on your PC at home and then take it to work to commercialise it using your commercially licensed copy of LabVIEW.

LabVIEW Community Edition also allows students and academics to install and use LabVIEW in situations that their academic site licenses don’t cover. They can install it on their PCs and use it at home.

To ensure this edition of LabVIEW works well for hobbyists, NI updated the LINX Toolkit for supporting hobbyist hardware targets like BeagleBone, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino and bundled it with LabVIEW Community Edition. The toolkit is part of the community edition‘s platform release.

More importantly, the no-commercial-projects limitation for the LINX toolkit has been removed, so you can tinker around with your hobby projects using LabVIEW Community Edition at home and then take your work to the office to industrialize and commercialize your hobby projects with a commercially licensed version of LabVIEW.

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Product: NI LabView
Version: 2020 version 20.0.0 Community Edition
Supported Architectures: x86
Website Home Page : www.ni.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC *
Supported Operating Systems: *
Size: 2.0 Gb