Extract text from LabVIEW measurement files (LVM)
To convert LVM measurement files to another format, you need LabVIEW or other Data software.
To convert other file formats to the "Measurement Data File" file type, you need software like LabVIEW or a similar tool.
The .lvm file is a plain-text ASCII format used for logging measurement and 1D waveform data. Created primarily by National Instruments LabVIEW and educational tools like CASSY Lab, the format consists of a proprietary metadata header followed by tab-delimited numeric columns. See LabVIEW on Wikipedia for more context on the ecosystem.
While human-readable, the .lvm format suffers from severe performance bottlenecks. Writing numbers as text strings means the files bloat massively in size - often taking up to ten times more disk space than a binary equivalent. This inefficiency makes .lvm notoriously slow to write, causing dropped data points in high-speed, high-frequency data acquisition setups. Furthermore, sharing raw .lvm files with non-engineers usually results in import errors due to the complex multi-line headers.
To make this data usable, convert to CSV or TXT to seamlessly open the arrays in Microsoft Excel, Python, or MATLAB. For internal archiving and maximum performance within the NI ecosystem, convert your legacy logs to binary TDMS.
Convert.Guru analyzes your LVM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted TXT, ZIP, MAT, GRIB, MID, XLB, OPJU, NB, AUP3, MCDX, NBIB, SLDDRW and ICS files.
If you want to convert LVM file to ZFS, QCOW2, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use LabVIEW or similar software from the "Text-Based Sensor Data Logging" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to LVM, try LabVIEW or another comparable tool in the "Text-Based Sensor Data Logging" category.
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