Evaluation expiring on Labview

[NXTreem]

Hello,

I have had a Labview Student Edition  7.1.1
But now on a meeting with NI i got a NI Labview 8.5 Student Edition from Andy Bell.

I'm using Labview only to build blocks for my sensors to distrubute.  Only as i'm not an expert on labview it takes more time to develope my blocks. 
Problem is that i'm almost on the 30 Days evaluation time. So i'm concerned that i will loos my work.

Is there any way that i can work longer than 30 days without that i'm paying a lot of money? 
As i'm only a hardware developer that needs to build his blocks in labview as that is the only way to make working blocks for  NXT-G.


BTW can i use 8.5 with the mindstorms Patch to build my blocks. Or do i need to step back to 7.1.1?

Many thanks in advance,
Daniel Wittenaar
Member of the LEGO Mindstorms © MCP programm.

[DJDDA]

...What, so you're looking for a crack or warez or something?

Can you even ask that here? 

[NXTreem]

NO !!  I'm asking if there is any legal way to use labview for making blocks for Mindstorms NXT-G without paying a lot of money for a full version of LV that i don't use for anything else.

Long sentence.. 

So this means that while i'm not into buying very powerfull software. I have just 30 days to make all my blocks for my hardware designs. And after that i'm not able to make anything because i don't have LV.

And as LV is the only program to build custom comunication blocks to talk in I2C for NXT-G that means that if i want to go on making interfaces for the NXT i'm forced to buy an expensive license, Right?

That was the question.   I guess there is no other way..  That's a pitty.. As a lot of developers would drop out on the license cost of LV.

[JamesB.]

Hi Daniel -

LabVIEW 7.1.X is the only version of LabVIEW you can use to develop custom blocks for the NXT-G programming environment.  If I remember right, the Student Edition in this version has a non-expiring license.  So, any work you've done in that version will certainly be preserved and you can take all the time you need to learn how the software works.

I'm pretty sure that your 30-day evaluation period only applies to LV 8.5.  When that license expires, any work you've done in 8.5 won't be destroyed, but you also won't be able to open any of those VIs until you either purchase LV 8.5 or are granted another evaluation period.  Migrating any work you've done in 8.5 back to 7.1.1 would be very difficult.

My recommendation to you is to maximize your remaining license time with LV 8.5.  Stop trying to develop custom blocks for the time being and instead, explore how using the NXT Toolkit can help you program your robot in LabVIEW instead of in NXT-G.  (Keep in mind that any work you do will be frozen when the evaluation period expires; sorry, but that's the way software marketing works.)  When your evaluation period is up, you can switch back to 7.1.1 and return to the task of developing custom NXT-G blocks.  If you find that 7.1.1 is powerful enough for you, great.  But if you end up missing some of the features in 8.5, or you wish to reclaim some of the work you did in 8.5, maybe you'll consider purchasing a full license.






Message Edited by James B. on 04-07-2008 05:04 PM

[yorambi]

Hi,


how to get this 7.1 version - filled the form - and got no response

Yoram

[NXTreem]

I signed in for a download of the 7.1 version.  I could directly download it from the site.

After a few weeks i also got a hardcopy from NI.

Not sure if there is still a way to download the 7.1 version as there is a new version 8.5