Command-Line Global Properties

Each property is defined for administrative or individual installations, unless otherwise noted. Serial numbers can be passed to both an administrative installation and an individual installation using global properties.

Property Description
ENABLEPERFORMANCE Whether the application should automatically send performance data to SOLIDWORKS Corporation.

1

To send performance data.

0

Do not send performance data.

INSTALLDIR Installation folder for SOLIDWORKS.

Individual installations only.

MBDSERIALNUMBER Serial number for the SOLIDWORKS Model Based Definition product.
MOTIONSERIALNUMBER Serial number for the SOLIDWORKS Motion product.
OFFICEOPTION Specify product package to install:

0

SOLIDWORKS Client

1

SOLIDWORKS Office

2

SOLIDWORKS Professional

3

SOLIDWORKS Premium

REINSTALL Specify ALL to update all features currently installed.
Specify this property only when updating to a Service Pack release within an existing major release (for example, updating an existing SOLIDWORKS 2019 SP01 installation to SOLIDWORKS 2019 SP02).
REINSTALLMODE Microsoft Installer re-installation options.

For example, when upgrading an installation from one Service Pack release to another within the same major release, you should specify REINSTALLMODE=vomus.

For details about REINSTALLMODE settings, see the Windows Installer documentation at www.microsoft.com.

Specify this property only when updating to a Service Pack release within an existing major release (for example, updating an existing SOLIDWORKS 2019 SP01 installation to SOLIDWORKS 2019 SP02). Do not specify this property the first time you are installing a new major release of SOLIDWORKS.
SERVERLIST SolidNetWork server list.
The SolidNetWork server list is a delimited list of strings, each of which refers to a port number on a server with the format:
  • Triad (comma delimited) =xxxxx@server_name1,yyyyy@server_name2,zzzzz@server_name3
  • Non-Triad (semi-colon delimited) = xxxxx@server_name1;yyyyy@server_name2;zzzzz@server_name3
X and Y are single digits. After the last server in the list, do not put a delimiter.

Individual installations only.

SIMULATIONSERIALNUMBER Serial number for the SOLIDWORKS Simulation product.
SOLIDWORKSSERIALNUMBER Serial number for the SOLIDWORKS product, which includes all add-ins.
SWMIGRATE SOLIDWORKS version to upgrade as it would be shown in the list in the SOLIDWORKS Install Choice dialog box. For example:

SWMIGRATE="SOLIDWORKS 2019 x64 Edition SP01"

Specify this property only when installing a new major release while there is a prior major release currently installed. Do not specify this property when upgrading from one Service Pack release to another within the same major release.
TOOLBOXFOLDER Installation folder for SOLIDWORKS Toolbox files.

Individual installations only.

For example: TOOLBOXFOLDER = "C:\SOLIDWORKS Data"

TRANSFORMS Contains language-specific items of the form:
TRANSFORMS number.mst
  • Chinese (1028)
  • Chinese-Simplified (2052)
  • Czech (1029)
  • English (1033)
  • French (1036)
  • German (1031)
  • Italian (1040)
  • Japanese (1041)
  • Korean (1042)
  • Polish (1045)
  • Portuguese-Brazilian (1046)
  • Russian (1049)
  • Spanish (1034)
  • Turkish (1055)
UPGRADESWINSTALL
Specify whether to upgrade an existing version of SOLIDWORKS to the current version.

0

New installation, do not update.

1

Update

Individual installations only.

Specify this property only when installing a new major release while there is a prior major release currently installed. Do not specify this property when upgrading from one service pack release to another within the same major release.