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We are pleased to inform that National Instruments is now offering free access to LabVIEW to all APU students and academic staff due to the COVID-19 pandemic for at least 70 days. LabVIEW is a graphical program commonly used by scientists and engineers for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. Please follow the guide below on installing it. Should you have any inquiries or you need technical and application support during the Restricted Movement, please do not hesitate to contact our Virtual Help Centre at 03-8992 5050 during operation hours (Weekdays: 8:00 am – 9:30 pm) or you may log a helpdesk request by sending an email to assist@apu.edu.my. |
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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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LabVIEW license is valid for 70 days. |
Follow the following steps in order
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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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Fill in the appropriate fields with the following details:
Role | Student |
School | Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) |
School Address | Jalan Teknologi 5 |
City | Kuala Lumpur |
Province | Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur |
Postal Code | 57000 |
Email address | TP email (Format: TPXXXXXX@mail.apu.edu.my) |
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It will show “Enter a valid email address” when you enter your TP email. This is normal and you can still click on Create Account to register. |
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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, you will see this websitenavigate to http://www.ni.com/gate/gb/GB_EVALLVSTUDENT/US.
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You will be given the a Serial Number. This Serial Number will be valid for at least 70 days. You can always come back to this website to view the Serial Number if you need to reactivate in the future. |
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Once you choose the settings you need, click on Download.
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When prompted, login to your account again.
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You might receive a prompt to enter your password. Simply verify your account by entering your NI account password.
When prompted, in Primary Job Activity select Other.
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You will see this page and the download will start. If the download doesn’t start, click Restart the download link.
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Click on Restart the download if your installer is not downloading.
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Installation
Once the download completed, open the downloaded file and the installation process will startDouble 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 show shows up. On In this page, select the components you wanted to install. By default, all the The essentials components had been are selected automaticallyby default.
Once you are done selecting the components to install, click Next.
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Select I accept the above 3 2 license agreement(s) and click Next.
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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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You will be prompted to login to your account. Enter your NI User Account credentials and press Enter.
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Once you successfully logged in, you most components including the main software will be activated.
You will see a list of software components that needs licenses.
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Don’t click on Activate or Extend Trial yet. |
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Since we are given a Serial Number to activate, click on manual activation. Click on the drop-down box and select Enter a serial number. In all the text-boxes, fill in the Serial Number.
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You can refer to this page after login for the Serial Number. |
Once you fill in the Serial Number in all the text boxes, click Activate. It will start activating the software by checking the serial number.
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If the serial number is working, you will see LabVIEW 2019 SP1 Student Edition LabView is activated. Click on Finish.
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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 “ni labview 2020” and press enter.
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If you see this when you open LabVIEW, it means your LabVIEW is activated properly.
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