In CVI 6.0, you can use ActiveX controls, which means that you can use the same 3D Graph from CW and LabVIEW in CVI. There is an example in \samples\userint\activex\ in version 6.0. As for the GMath toolkit in LabVIEW, this was not developed in CVI due to low demand. These development environments (LabVIEW and CVI) provide 99% common functionality, however, they are developed independently and therefore will always be slightly different. There are also many things you can do in CVI that you can't in LabVIEW. We definately do intend to push you to any compiler. CVI is a very popular product for us and we are always working on improving it and keeping it up to date. I'm not sure what version of CVI you are using, but CVI 6.0 which is the current version ha
s many, many new features.
Best Regards,
Chris Matthews
National Instruments