Downloads for LV 2015, LV 2015 SP1, or LV 2016?

[Nibbonski]

Hi everyone,

I am a new uni student and we are doing a project with LEGO Mindstorms, which only has modules supporting LV 2015, LV 2015 SP1, LV 2016 and a few other older versions I believe. The uni has a server to connect to their database and we can copy files for LabVIEW and relevant modules into our computer. However the installation files they have are only for windows (I use a Macbook/MacOS). And so I have to download LabVIEW from NI, but all these versions are only available as runtime editions. Is there any way I could download these LabVIEW versions anywhere else? I'm currently using LabVIEW Community 2023 Q1, which isn't helpful because there are no LEGO Mindstorms modules for this version. Could someone help me out with this?

Thanks.

[rolfk]

Non Windows versions back then were all without license manager and were never available for downloading. You had to get them physically shipped as DVD or USB stick to get them.

But Macintosh versions of LabVIEW usually only worked on a Mac that existed at the time LabVIEW got released, since Apple likes to change their OS with every new version in ways that can easily break applications like LabVIEW. Chances that you could get LabVIEW 2015 or 2016 to run on a recent Macintosh or even a recent MacOS on an older machine are very small.

[santo_13]

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@Nibbonski wrote:

Hi everyone,

I am a new uni student and we are doing a project with LEGO Mindstorms, which only has modules supporting LV 2015, LV 2015 SP1, LV 2016 and a few other older versions I believe. The uni has a server to connect to their database and we can copy files for LabVIEW and relevant modules into our computer. However the installation files they have are only for windows (I use a Macbook/MacOS). And so I have to download LabVIEW from NI, but all these versions are only available as runtime editions. Is there any way I could download these LabVIEW versions anywhere else? I'm currently using LabVIEW Community 2023 Q1, which isn't helpful because there are no LEGO Mindstorms modules for this version. Could someone help me out with this?

Thanks.

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Just additional information, Mac may be common among students but most industrial applications, enterprise applications run on Windows or Linux, this makes it a challenge for students to learn on a Mac.

NI also discontinued with LabVIEW for Mac with LV2023Q3 being the latest version to work with Mac.

Refer to this link for LabVIEW and Mac version compatibility matrix (older versions available in the attachment at the bottom of the page)

https://www.ni.com/en/support/documentation/compatibility/18/labview-and-macos-compatibility.html

One more thing would be the support for Apple's M1 or M2 silicon which is available only on LV2023Q3 - https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA03q000001EAndCAG&l=en-US