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LabVIEW is a graphical program commonly used by scientists and engineers for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. This article will guide you on installing LabVIEW on your workstation.

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Register NI User Account

  • If you already have a National Instrument account, skip to Login and Download.

Registration form

Go to https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/evallvstudent/content.xhtml using your web browser. You will see a form to create an NI User Account.

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Once all the details have been entered, click Create Account.

Confirm account creation

Once you submitted the form, you will be asked to confirm your account. National Instruments (NI) will send an activation email to the email that you registered with.

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Once you click on the link, your account will be activated. Click Continue.

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Login and Download

Login

Go to https://lumen.ni.com/nicif/us/header_login/content.xhtml and login to your NI User Account.

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Download Software

After you activate your account/log in to your user account, navigate to http://www.ni.com/gate/gb/GB_EVALLVSTUDENT/US.

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You will see this page and the download will start. Click on Restart the download if your installer is not downloading.

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Installation

Double click the installer that you just downloaded will start the installation.

Install NI Package Manager

Before the LabVIEW install, you will need to install Package Manager. Select I accept the above license agreement and click Next.

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On this page, click Next. The installation will proceed and it will take a minute.

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Install LabVIEW and drivers

Once the Package Manager had been installed, the LabVIEW installer will shows up. In this page, select the components you wanted to install. The essentials components are selected by default.

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Next, you will see a dialog box to opt-in to their Customer Experience Improvement Program. Select No, I do not want to participate in the NI Customer Experience Improvement Program and click OK.

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Activate LabVIEW 2019

After the installation is completed, you will be requested to activate LabVIEW. Click on Log in to Activate.

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Click on Reboot Now to complete the installation.

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Installation Complete

To launch LabVIEW, in the Start Menu type in NI LabVIEW 2019 and press enter.

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