03-15-2021 11:10 PM
I currently have a project that was started on Community version as I was a beginner to labview; but now that I'm assured labview works for me, I want to purchase the labview base subscription with deployment addons.
Are there any steps to migrate the old project into labview base and deploy it?
Also I was wondering why there isn't any watermark on the community exe deployment?
03-16-2021 02:34 AM
03-16-2021 02:36 AM
The short answer is, "no". You shouldn't have to do anything to migrate the project to LabVIEW Base + App builder.
Let's explore why you would want to downgrade your LabVIEW package from Community Edition (CE) to Base + App builder. Yes, it is a downgrade because CE is fully comparable to LabVIEW Pro except that CE is only for personal use. Are you planning on building commercial product?
There is no watermark because why would there be a watermark?
03-16-2021 04:01 AM
Thanks, yes I'm planning to upgrade to build a commercial product with most of the files from before.
Regarding the watermark, I thought labview might work similar to other products like AutoCad/SolidWorks where they lock/watermark all your files to force you to remake from scratch with a paid version.
On another note what's preventing small companies from using Labview Community for commercial use secretly?
03-16-2021 09:07 AM
@diluc99 wrote:
On another note what's preventing small companies from
using Labview Community for commercial use secretlyusing a stolen LabVIEW license to build their commercial product?
I've rephrased your question to make it easier for you to answer it for yourself ... It may depend on the size of your Legal Team.
Bob Schor
03-16-2021 12:00 PM
Be aware that the community edition has significantly more functionality than LabVIEW base. You will be missing many analysis functions (linear algebra, curve fitting, etc.).