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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LabVIEW

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ANational Instruments headquartered in Austin offers LabVIEW, a systems engineering software platform and toolkit.

    $407

    per year

    PTC Creo

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/APTC offers Creo, the company's line of computer-aided design (CAD) products that support the product lifecycle management (PLM) process with 2D and 3D design kits (Creo Elements and Creo Direct), an augmented reality module, Creo Illustrate for technical illustrations, Creo Sketch, Creo Schematics and Creo View for diagramming and sharing information, Creo simulate for running simulations, and other modules.

    $2,480

    Pricing
    LabVIEWPTC Creo
    Editions & Modules
    LabView Base
    $407
    per year
    LabView Full
    3,206
    per year
    LabView Professional
    5,344
    per year
    Design Package
    $2,480.00
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LabVIEWPTC Creo
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    LabVIEWPTC Creo
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    NI (National Instruments)
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    LabVIEWPTC Creo
    Computer-Aided Design Software
    Comparison of Computer-Aided Design Software features of National Instruments LabVIEW and PTC Creo
    Feature
    National Instruments LabVIEW
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    PTC Creo
    4.0
    1 Ratings
    61% below category average
    Rendering and Visualization8.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Parametric Design8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration and Sharing6.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Compatibility with other software and formats6.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Assembly Design6.01 Ratings3.01 Ratings
    Simulation and Analysis10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Documentation and Annotation10.01 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Customization and Extensions10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    3D Modeling00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    2D Drafting00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LabVIEWPTC Creo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    2.2
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    Support Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    LabVIEWPTC Creo
    Likelihood to Recommend
    NI (National Instruments)
    LabView is a great tool to connect your sensors to your data aquisition hardware. It makes it really easy to set-up a data acquisition routine that meets your individual requirements. I, as an engine researcher, find it very well suited for engine experimentation. For any other programming needs, i.e. not data acquisition, I would not recommend using LabView because of its graphical programming architecture. The architecture makes it a great tool for Data Aquisition but puts at a disadvantage when it comes to other computational tasks, e.g. making a thermodynamic engine model. For those applications having text-based programming is better suited
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    PTC
    PTC Creo is great for assemblies that multiple users are collaborating on. Models can reference other models that someone in another department has released and when those models are changed, the referenced parts and assemblies are changed. These changes are very helpful when working on collaborative machine designs and comparing forging dies with the final parts.
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    Pros
    NI (National Instruments)
    • Being a graphical programming language, it is a little easier for a layperson to understand than text based programming languages.
    • The program has very good debugging features.
    • Support is good.
    • There are a variety of tutorials which make it easier to do something that you aren't sure about.
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    PTC
    • PTC Creo contains many advanced tools with better optimization for creating part models and other production related drawings.
    • The initial concept designs can be done more adequately.
    • The parameters of 2D drawings can be changed easily by editing the 3D model.
    • The productivity can be increased by customized tools for modeling.
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    Cons
    NI (National Instruments)
    • improve the management of pc resources to use the minimum amount of resources
    • add a utility for zooming in the block diagram window
    • Improve management of complementary applications, such as real time module or dsc
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    PTC
    • No autosave
    • No clear message if it has problems saving the file
    • Not so easy to use
    • In my experience, has a lot of things missing that other CAD already have in years
    • In my experience, it's extremely easy to lose work/time
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    Support Rating
    NI (National Instruments)
    No answers on this topic
    PTC
    I liked the training manuals I used to learn some, as I didn’t have CAD background in college or before this job. My coworkers were able to share with me what they learned in PTC training and I was able to get support online and through reading.
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    Alternatives Considered
    NI (National Instruments)
    We chose LabVIEW over MATLAB due to the integration with hardware and the graphical programming interface. Also, the ability to use LabVIEW with FPGAs and real-time processors without having to make large changes to the code base or swapping to a separate programming environment was a big benefit since we don't know what hardware will be suitable for each customer application.
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    PTC
    Learning curve of SOLIDWORKS is higher compared to Creo, however, stability and more design control is provided by Creo. Creo also have more robust and stable interfaces. For larger assemblies, Creo works better than SOLIDWORKS. New upgrades of Creo has given liberty to open different file data of different software without any file conversion. Creo costs comparable to SOLIDWORKS cost, with more capabilities.
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    Return on Investment
    NI (National Instruments)
    • We use NI's data acquisition hardware as well which has made it possible to get whatever experimental data we need to get for our studies.
    • LabView has made it possible for us to post-process and tailor the raw data to our specific needs.
    • With a responsive customer support team, NI allows us to expand our data acquisition and post-processing capabilities to carry out the kind of research projects that we would want.
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    PTC
    • Having PTC Creo as our primary tool positions us as forward thinking and creative in the eyes of our clients.
    • PTC Creo constantly evolves in the ability to increase our productivity; new capabilities and features are added, which reduce our level of effort for some tasks.
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