--- title: LabVIEW Reviews meta_title: 'LabVIEW Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 192 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how LabVIEW works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 192 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-12' parent_category: name: CAD url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad --- # LabVIEW Reviews **Vendor:** NI **Category:** [Systems Engineering & MBSE Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/systems-engineering-and-mbse) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 192 ## About LabVIEW LabVIEW is systems engineering software for applications that require test, measurement, and control with rapid access to hardware and data insights. The LabVIEW programming environment simplifies hardware integration for engineering applications so that you have a consistent way to acquire data from NI and third-party hardware. LabVIEW reduces the complexity of programming, so you can focus on your unique engineering problem. LabVIEW enables you to immediately visualize results with built-in, drag-and-drop engineering user interface creation and integrated data viewers. To turn your acquired data into real business results, you can develop algorithms for data analysis and advanced control with included math and signal processing IP or reuse your own libraries from a variety of tools. To ensure compatibility with other engineering tools, LabVIEW can interoperate with, and reuse libraries from, other software and open-source languages. ## LabVIEW Reviews ### 1. A revolutionary way to code, but has some challenges! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is a graphical representation of the 'data flow' that makes the coding fun. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** A huge footprint on the PC, as well as the lack of updates for its own NI hardware in line with any LabVIEW update is a challenge for any developer. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linking up to my test equipment can be easy, and setting up a user interface is an easy job. ### 2. Instrumentation and measurement simplified **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William R. | Senior Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Ease of interfacing with numerous devices via many communication protocols **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Forums are filled with condescension, training is too generalized and focused on FT development instead of engineering. Update UI, Make documentation better, like Matlab. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Explore using a project as a template **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Interfacing with various sensors and lab equipment and automating a characteristics test as well as integrity testing ### 3. Implementing a small transport aircraft model on a Hardware in Loop Simulation. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kamali C. | Senior Principal Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The GUI feature, front end, and back end. FMI co simulation with other software platforms. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Modeling a dynamic system is slightly complex. Even implementing an integrator **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best hardware for implementing the code with the required I/O, I could find only from NI. The veristand platform and Labview have benefitted me in realizing a real-time simulator. ### 4. Finest software for new age data acquisition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niranjan N. | Sr. Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Graphical programming Reusebility File format support, DLL files. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Nothing. Fewer people know. Software pricing **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you want to build exe for fast data acquisition and continuous timebound improvement in your R&D work. LabVIEW based developement is far more superior than the rest. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Compatibility with MS Office, various SQL softwares, Data acquisition rate, Ease of modular structure, subvis ### 5. Automation & instrumentation in LabVIEW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The graphical programming, the ease. Real-Time system & FPGA programming. It's a cakewalk to do any automation: aerospace, energy generation, medical research. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Anybody can code & think they are coders. This sometimes makes the code really dirty & non-readable. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Medical research equipment. We control many hardware with LabVIEW. The next idea is to use cRIO ### 6. Labview is very useful when talking about testing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview is very easy to use; you don't need to spend much time designing complicated codes. You can get your test results once you set up your test fixture. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** sometimes I forgot the Labview required formate for coding **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you have lab data acquisition needs and don't want to spend more time on programming,the labview is your good choice **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our daily production QC, using Labview to check our product quality is the last step. By visualizing the internal results, we are able to tell all the details of our product. ### 7. NI Labview 2020 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daniel M. | Unternehmensinhaber, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview enables electronic engineers to quickly get started with programming, because the programming looks like a schema. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** NI's communication is very poor. However, this is not due to the product, but to the management. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** You need a good framework. Simply programming on the fly without training leads to disaster. ### 8. Best tool for our creativity **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep P. | Sr. Design Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy and simple way to code and make thoughtz a reality. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Till now I found none. Now they have included web development which I found very useful for which I don't have to learn another software I.e. java scripts etc. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** From small relay operation to fast nano seconds pneumatic valve control and complex testing requirements, I found it very easy to develop a control systems with LABVIEW. ### 9. More than a software, a programming language **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Max M. | Electronics Engineer / Information Technology and Communication Trainer / LabVIEW-MatLab Programmer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Its integration capabilities with third parties hardware, the building of custom solutions and creation of simulation of real-world systems.h **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I think it lags other programming tools and languages with regards to telecommunication and high-frequency systems toolboxes, **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** You can count on NI as support of the software,they always invite you to webinars et al. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simulation of communication systems aimed at teaching engineering students. The main benefits are the increase of rate (efficiency) building solutions that, otherwise, would require expensive hardware to achieve the same objectives. ### 10. Decent lab tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jorge G. | Product Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** simplicity and ease of use, as well as a wide range of tools that can be used in various applications **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** sometimes it is too complicated to get simple functions done compared to other platforms **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Design testing and validation. brought confidence to the design and accelerated route to market ### 11. Okay but customer service slow and tedious **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Renewables & Environment | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is very user friendly and has a good front panel interface **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I have issues but the customer support takes forever to respond. I think they should just go to screen sharing video calls! **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** CO2 and N2 flow test stand. Reading flow, pressure, temperature ### 12. Hard to learn, easy to work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** fernando F. | T, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The graphical interface. Its the BEST monitoring or control. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The programming is so hard and ungrateful. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** You need to do a course before use, It isnt like other programm languaje. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Control of preasure (nitrogen), temperature, DAQ. The monitoring is very useful. ### 13. positive for DAQ, where is the web applicability? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** data acquisition is very good, routine data analysis is very practical for me **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** No good interface for web applications, hard to connect to services like google Don't have support for google APIs - big problem **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** strong DAQ capabilities **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data acquisition, logging information ### 14. I connected pH meter and ozone analyzer to have both parameters at the same time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad b. | PhD student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** the support team was very helpful and in one case they talked to me 2 hours **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** learning steps took time and I used some tutrilas **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I connected two instrumnets to get data ### 15. Great software, unique possibilities!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ely A. | Automation Enginner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** - The program built in the Labview is easy to read! **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** To me, everything looks good and working very well. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it as a High-Level Control System. ### 16. Good Software, Easy to Understand Interface **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Trang N. | Chemical Engineer II, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is a pretty easy-to-use software with plenty of documentation online. There are tutorials online to help you get used to the software quickly, even if you don't have a programming or EE background. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It is pretty costly for small companies/ labs to acquire. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** N/A **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building automated lab systems. ### 17. Broad support for instruments. Terrible customer focus **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** This product has support and drivers for a broad range of instruments. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Online training site is not well organized. Have had issues accessing my training. Put in repeated service requests with no resolution. Recently moved entirely to a subscription model and gave their clients who own perpetual licenses all of 2 weeks notice that their licenses would no longer be supported. (right before Christmas!). **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Instrument control. ### 18. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahiro K. | Process designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is good to be able to program graphically. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I hate that there are too many installers when making an exe package. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Used to create software for tools ### 19. Labview renewal **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview classical functionalities + quite total retrocompatibility **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** New website and contractual procedure which is not clear / quite long **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test benchs quicly operationnal and usable ### 20. Helps to view the data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The picture interface and the ability to gather data and be able to do calculations in a semi-visual appealing way. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There are a lot of glitches, and the way to find bugs could be better. Also, it costs a lot, and the NI hardware is costly. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are gathering data from a system with sensors. ### 21. Easy to use but expensive **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy to use and has drivers for many intruments. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Price and no big improvements between different versions. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If work is simple and don't require integrating other code into your control, then LabVIEW is easy and fast. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrate all instruments control into one GUI. It works fast if the instrument has a driver for LabVIEW ### 22. Labview review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mat D. | Research officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview is extremely versatile and efficient when it comes to communicate with different instruments and machines **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It is hard to find people mastering Labview programming language **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Driving scientific instruments or machine ### 23. LabVIEW for Rocket Data Acquisition **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madeline K. | Propulsion Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2018 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** We use LabVIEW for the data acquisition for USC's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory for a load cell, thermocouples, and pressure transducers. I like that LabVIEW can be easily integrated with national instruments (NI) hardware - namely DAQ cards that can be bought specifically for thermocouples and analog inputs. You can make your front panel very organized so you know exactly what your data is real-time. There is a learning curve for using LabVIEW, but as a graphical programming language it is not too difficult. There is also an abundance of online support and forums where I've had a lot of help. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Sometimes with LabVIEW updates there are issues with .vi compatibility. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** LabVIEW helps with an enormous amount of data to be collected in a very efficient and robust way. Using it allows for real-time updates that I can give to the propulsion team during firings. ### 24. Great product with great support. Allowing us to easily automate all of our lab testing needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Industry standard which supports the automation of all of our lab equipment. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Need to write some custom drivers. Not all equipment works out of the box. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allows us to automate tests so that we don't need an operator to watch all the time. ### 25. Great tool for test and measurement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Graphical programming makes it easy to visualize the solution **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** What is least helpful about LabVIEW? What are the downsides of using LabVIEW? **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** What problems are you solving with LabVIEW? What benefits have you realized? ### 26. Pros & Cons of LabView 2020 Full **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Machinery | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** From a technical aspect, you can get really fast solutions and many 3rd party libraries are also available. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The commercial granularity, like have to pay for everything as well, as the yearly amount of the new SSP program. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** The solutions are complex testbench control & visualization software. ### 27. Great Labware Software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I like how easy the system is to set up and use for operation/automation purposes. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The cost of the software. If they had a fee based on the number of automation systems you use it for and divided up some of the cost, that would be awesome, and we would probably use it with more of our automation systems. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Labview allows us to control the temperature and humidity of our chemical permeation system. This has benefited in providing consistent and quality results. ### 28. Software Engineer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Ease of learning and lots of training materials given. Great community. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Lots to learn, not good cloud development abilities. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benchtop pc software for usb connected hardware ### 29. Great for small projects, not so much for large ones. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Research | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview is relatively easy to get started with. The graphical representation makes it easy to grasp what is going on with small to medium size programs. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It is cumbersome to troubleshoot larger projects. You either have a huge page that gets unwieldy or have multiple layers that you have to go up and down to try to understand it. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** One can make a GUI-based program to control equipment from multiple vendors. ### 30. LabVIEW Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2022 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy of Use, Learning Curve, Supported Hardware **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Installation Size, Licenses Cost, Execution Speed **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Test Bench Development ### 31. A very good and easy to use software for data acquisition **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easily programmable and reconfigurable architecture **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Paid libraries for some types of applications **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Especially data acquisition. It is very easy to apply filters and complex algorithms for data preparation. ### 32. Working with LabVIEW more than 20 years **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy to learn, rich libraries and toolkits, different hardware platforms, fast development **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Restriction of support for university education in the last years **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Education, DAQ, measurement automation, signal processing ### 33. Great Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW gives you easy access to inbuilt libraries and eases your work **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** You cannot rotate the front panel items. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Created hardware in Loop system based solely on LabVIEW ### 34. Great, simple and fast **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Building Materials | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** For me it's the available resources to learn. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Currently I don't have enough experience with LabView to have a objective dislike. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Use YouTube to learn. There is a lot of great videos to show the basic and advanced stuff. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** HLC for the cement manufacturing. Small projects to learn. ### 35. Lab_view user exprience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yasser T. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** description of each icon with respect to its function As a person that used to work on structural health monitoring system by means of a lab view, the course was pretty useful, descriptive, effective to know some parameters that you may not know them very well but you accept as they are(as a default setting), in a nutshell, is very effective and practical, i highly recommend it **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** honestly, nothing, everything was set up in a good manner **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** LabVIEW is a graphical development environment that greatly simplifies common problems faced by scientists and engineers. With LabVIEW, acquiring, analyzing, and presenting data is put within arm’s reach of those who aren’t computer scientists., many industries have adopted the National Instruments platform because of its power and ease of use. and over time many new features have been introduced, making this programming platform an even more powerful tool **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** mainly for monitoring system, structural health monitoring systems but one of the project also was about an equi-biaxial test for rubber/elastomer. To bring in the biaxial tension state in the material, I want to inflate a membran with air pressure so it will strech in the shape of a balloon. For this experimental test set-up, there should be some different test modes available for the user, such as a single-mode test or a long-term test (creep test). Futhermore it should be possible for the user to decide whether the test has to be pressure controlled or strain controlled. So the programm should look like this: Choose the test mode by clicking on the button (single-test/long-term test), then choose the control parameter (pressure/strain) ### 36. LABVIEW is like nothing else **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 12, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is easy to use and can replicate any circuit for testing purposes, it is very easy to troubleshoot **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It crashes sometimes if it is a very big program **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** There is no other software that does as much as LabVIEW. With Chassis and other National Instruments products, this can do anything. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Circuit Testing, it can test I2C to RS 485 connections too ### 37. I use LABVIEW to demonstrate interfacing of the gyroscope and accelorometer axis of rotations. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Waseem A. | Deputy Manager Electrical, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** I use LABVIEW to demonstrate the interfacing of the gyroscope, accelerometer, and microcontroller to show the axis of rotations. using Labview GUI I prepare a visual display for the stabilization of the three dimensions platform. Labview support is very good and I get a lot of help from the experienced professional while I was stuck. Anyone who is looking to use LabVIEW for his engineering problem, I will definitely recommend it and it the industry problem-solving software.LABVIEW can be used in today's engineering problem and refined solutions can be prepared and concepts can be transformed into the visualization then implementation easily. Labview has an easy setup interface that is easy to start any project and to understand it quickly and most important to remember the detail for next time continuity from the same area. it seems to offer a nice graphic alternative to traditional text-based programming. it's not a just-virtualization/data acquisition programming language. It seems to have that paradigm pegged to its creator's name.I HOPE LABVIEW TEAM WILL ALWAYS WORK TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOFTWARE **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The only problem was my system not up to the requirement as needed and sometimes it slows down my system. But I was in the year 2012. I don't think now it will be a problem. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** DEFINATELY, SPECIALLY TO THE ENGINEERING STUDENTS working in the research project. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** FOR VISUALIZATION using RS232 port. ### 38. One of the most convenient way to hook on instruments into a computer controlled dashboard. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nandhavel S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** To put it succinctly, it feels easy and confidence enhancing to start to control instruments connected to your computer in short time. Some good features that I have appreciated are the programming structure which you can identify with regular programming languages, Mathscript, RT modules, Error clustering, Asynchronous call of VIs, and others. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** While debugging is one use case where the application of LabView styles help, it can at the same time become a put-off, if the dashboard use case has complicated control setup, with many VIs /sub-VIs and functions and nested loops, and particularly inherited functions. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I would recommend it, it is comparatively the most intuitive approach one can have to manage instruments and control them. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Answering the second question first, it made life comparatively more straightforward through accessing readily available VIs for popular instruments which otherwise using more traditional ways of controlling the instruments would have had gotten time consuming. The style of graphical programming intuitively helps error and trial programming idea. To the first question, had used LabView across needs like collecting data from various types of sensors, instruments, analyzing data in real-time (with limitations of buffer overflow), devising PID control for stepper motors to control gas valves and other needs. ### 39. A visual approach to programming that takes you from idea to implementation very quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier N. | Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The visual nature makes it very simple to follow the logic of an application. There is a very large range of plugins that make Labview compatible with almost anything out there **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** There is an important limitation with platforms and cost when compared with alternatives like Python. Access to SBC is limited to home use although platforms like the RPi are ideal and it works quite well on it. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If time to application is important then Labview is the way to go. It is also particularly good for people with visual memory as the flows are easy to follow and debug. It is also possible to get very tight control of the timing using Real-time and FPGA. The latter is incredibly easy to implement in Labview and outstandingly powerful. Make sure you build a strong base if starting from scratch and then the sky is the limit! Make sure you explore the capabilities of FPGA is timming is important for the application. I was able to work reliably in realtime with sub ns resolution. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly use it for test benches and it is amazing how quickly I can get a prototype going. Likewise, it allows me to dig deeper and develop complex applications with several IO and complete control on timing. Accessing real-time processing of sub ns signals using the FPGA cards was unexpectedly simple and the documentation for training available at the time was excellent and allowed me to learn it by myself. ### 40. Stepper Motor direction control. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amjad A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 20, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** It is an interactive program with an execution system designed for people, like scientists and engineers, who require to program as part of their jobs.It is not complex for first learners and the basic functions are already available for use. I have used Labview at the University of Debrecen as part of my fundamental courses in order to obtain my degree in Electrical Engineering. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** You can do things like basic SQL ,however for work to take a data structure from LabVIEW and get it into a database It does not do binding. It does fine inserting data into a database, but using the data, or manipulating it, is challenging. There’s less opportunity to utilize open source libraries. You might have to pay for a library that might be free in a different language. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I highly recommend using Labview for any persom interested in Knowing a new type of programming language, or as they call it (G language). I especially recommend it for Electrical Engineering students due to its highly beneficial use and broad usage. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Control a DC Motor With LabVIEW.The project was tested with an engine that had a rated current of 4A and transistors temperature that is not higher than 30 degrees. The benefits that I have realized is the systemized and fast connections that LabVIEW processes. I consider that I have not faced any problems due to the supervision of my professors duri ### 41. I have used LabVIEW only in context of academia and have yet to apply it personally in my industry **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabelle H. | Process Engineer I, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Visualization of process flows and front end/back end panels. This a great intro program for students as I used this program initially in university for a physiology course which implemented the program for coding a medical diagnosis program. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** It was difficult to find certain features used in creating certain programs. This programs may not be the most intuitive if you are not an inquisitive mind. Many students struggled without the help of our instructor but those who spent more time learning the program were able to use it without ease. However, some components of the program that can use some improvement is the option for receiving Help. A question and answer forum would be extremely useful in that users could ask questions and have a resource for answers that is ever growing as more and more users contribute information. Examples of how certain features could be also be provided as well. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** This is a great program if you have trouble visualizing programs and codes. This is a great intro especially for students and those new to coding and creating programs. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Feedback loops, visualization of feedback loops are especially helpful. I have also solved electrical and mechanical problems. Using currents and digital and analog inputs and outputs. There are several additional parts that can be used with LabVIEW including scales, temperature probes, and pressure sensors. I realized that the LabVIEW can be used for a multitude of purposes and applications and has the potential to be applied to large companies. ### 42. GUI Development for Grinding machines using Labview **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed Rizwan J. | Mechatronics Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Labview helps modular when a person with less programming experience try to make user interfaces. Graphical programming features of LabVIEW is much helpful to learn to program for freshers. It displays very good hardware communication and drivers. It has a nice GUI interface that you use to create your programs/instruments. It's easy to use, once you learn it. Many examples are available by users online. It is a language/GUI unique to its kind and very versatile in the applications that it can encompass. It's the ability to record and analyze high-precision low-level measurements makes it a really useful tool for scientific purposes. A whole control system design can be easy. DAQ assistant is really useful for capturing data from high precision devices. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** The main disadvantage of LabVIEW codes is difficult to follow and review. It'll be difficult to understand when we're trying to debug or test programs coded by others. Expert LabVIEW engineers are very rare and It needs lots of effort to recruit persons for LabVIEW programming. Sometimes seems a bit bloated in that if I want to create a very simple EXE then there's a lot of stuff that has to install around it. The controls for the user interface are very limited and creating custom controls is a real pain. Going to vector-based graphics will be nice but so far NXG is not usable for developers creating programs for clients. Some things are just easier to do in text-based languages. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you can find a person who's good in Labview programming then it's a complete solution for cyber-physical systems. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Labview helps as an integrated platform to merge sensors, hardware and helps to make control algorithm easily ### 43. LabView is Amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mudassir R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 18, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Since I am not a coding person, LabView helps me built user interface by just picking the elements and analyzing without hectic code and stuff. And the best part was when you don't know something about a feature or elements, LabView's help pop up and it explains you without even go to some browser, which saves a lot of time and i think that part makes LabView superior to other similar software. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Til now there is nothing to say about the demerits. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If you don't like to code then this is what you need. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use LabView for my "Digital Logic Design" course. I tried to solve different functions of logic gates and also make a MUX simulation. The benefits were that it helps me quickly analyze the logic gates and corresponding functions. ### 44. Labview is an Amazing Tool for Engineers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mariana N. | Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The graphic presentation of the processes makes it easier of reading and quickly understand what a section of code is doing. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Small changes in the code can cause profound restructuring of the program, since whenever a new block is inserted it is necessary to go back to connect wires and symbols to restore the new operation. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** It is very important to plan the project very well before proceeding to the realisation of the VIs. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Studying the behaviour of micro grids with wind generators and solar panels, the goal is to control the frequency of the grid through a system of batteries. Benefits of the Labview are the functions for measurement and analysis, possibility of execution on multiplatforms and embedded devices. ### 45. LabVIEW - student review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marija K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** This program is great because it is illustrative and great for beginners. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I think that I would appreciate if the functions are better categorized. That would help to choose faster the function that we need. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I would recommend you to try and use this program. It is really not that expensive and you could benefit from it. Just try it and learn how to code. It is interesting and you could apply it in many aspects. You will see that there are endless options and possibilities. Try it and thank me later. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** A lot of problems given by our professor. I think this program can be used in many different areas. I have seen that our professor made SCADA system for wind power plant in our country, by using LabVIEW. ### 46. electronics simplified simulation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2021 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** user friendly interface,easy to use,fast simulation **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** alot many components which is confusing. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** yess recommend to others. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** electronic circuits and simulation. ### 47. Experience with LabVIEW **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kapil S. | PHD, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The Interface (GUI) of the program is one of the interesting part. It is very easy to interface hardware with the LabVIEW. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** LabVIEW is very suitable for some target specific problems, esp. hardware interface and processing. When I used LabVIEW, I was a student and therefore, I never explore the other issues that professionals facing but for the student, there is nothing that they dislike. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** If your focus is the professional-looking rapid prototyping for instrumentation, hardware, measurement and data processing go for it. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** During my PhD, I used LabVIEW for the hardware interfacing (VNA, Spectrum analyzer, power meter etc) for the antenna parameter measurement. The interface, rapid development and easy to debug is the part I like much. ### 48. The best software for automation and measurements **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin M. | LabVIEW Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** Easy to learn the basics. Almost unlimited possibilities when you master it. You can do everything you would do with a general purpose programming language. Drivers support for most of the equipment I have used. Excellent customer support from National Instruments. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** Integration with other technologies and programming languages is not always straightforward. The computer you run the executables on needs to have a run-time engine. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Give it a try. If you have previous programming experience - don't be sceptical **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Development of programs for measurement and automation is really fast with LabVIEW. You don't need to worry about syntax and usually you have drivers and examplea available. Very helpful for rapid prototyping and development. ### 49. Automation of final year project for my degree **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2020 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** What I really like is the visual programming feature which allow convenient nested loops without making any substantial errors and the ease of traceability. And not to mention the easy and ready to use functions. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** As a non-computer science nor software expert, I really can't comment on this in details. I have only used it during my college and it was very handy. But it would always be beneficial to provide a complete and detailed system of a real world engineering and automation problem so others can further learn how to appropriately use it in solving problems. And this is of course mainly for professionals who are not specialized in computer science such as engineers. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** I would definitely recommend it for its efficiency in solving problems. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have used it for automation of a 3D- XYZ linear stage resulting in significantly reducing labour work and improve the quality and accuracy of the research. The ready-to-use functions without the need to write lengthy programming codes. ### 50. Used LabVIEW to teach students basics in programming **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vladimir M. | Teaching Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2019 **What do you like best about LabVIEW?** The best thing about this software is that it offers a very good opportunity for people who have never programmed to understand the basics and learn more complicated programming languages. **What do you dislike about LabVIEW?** I dislike that it is very hard to control the cursor sometimes and that with more complicated problems, a program can easily get messy. **Recommendations to others considering LabVIEW:** Excellent if you need to learn programming of if you would like to use it as an introductory language in your programming/engineering class. **What problems is LabVIEW solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teaching the students to program could not have been easier. LabVIEW uses a lot of descriptive icons for every function inside the software so that every user can understand what is going on in a program. 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