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Analysis Software Options

programming knowledge because of the graphical programming language they use,
shown in Figure 46.

Figure 46: LabVIEW’s block diagram design environment is shown next to a representative
analysis window.

A full LabVIEW license costs $2,999 and vibration customers may be interested in their
Sound and Vibration Toolkit for another $1,999. It can definitely get expensive quickly
but is a great solution for data analysis, especially in real-time controls applications.

Standalone Vibration Analysis Software
There are a wide range of standalone software packages available for purchase; but let’s
first identify a couple free ones.

Tom Irvine’s vibrationdata
Tom Irvine offers both a MATLAB and Python version of his signal analysis and

structural dynamics software GUI. These offer great versatility because it has a nice
GUI which is easy to work with; but all the source code is available if you need to take
the next step and perform your own custom analysis. In nearly all of his webinars he
will go through an example that uses these software packages so you can quickly see
the power and ease of use of these analysis options.

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