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Client Installation Options

When creating an administrative image, you can specify how the client installations are to be run.

Client Installations of Major Versions

When installing a new SolidWorks major version, the client installation can do one of the following:
  • Upgrade the latest existing major version, if one exists
  • Create a new major version (click Browse to change the new installation directory)

If you specify that the client upgrades the latest existing major version, the older version will no longer be available after the upgrade.

If you specify that the client create a new major version, the existing major version is preserved on the client computer after the installation. You can specify a default location for the new major version installation.

If this is a Service Pack release of an existing major release, that major release installation is always updated to the Service Pack. (That is, Installation Manager will not create a new installation for a Service Pack if the major release for that Service Pack is already installed.)

Installed products other than SolidWorks are not affected by this selection.

For some Service Pack updates, Installation Manager installs new versions of those products if they were not installed previously.

Applying SolidWorks Settings

You can specify one of the following:
  • Allow client installations to use their current SolidWorks settings.

    (If none exist, the installation will use the default SolidWorks settings for that release.)

  • You can use settings exported from the Copy Settings Wizard. Click Browse to find an existing Copy Settings Wizard settings file.
If SolidWorks is installed on this computer, you can run the Copy Settings Wizard by clicking Run Copy Settings Wizard Now.
You can run the Copy Settings Wizard on other computers that have SolidWorks installed by clicking Start > Programs > SolidWorks version > SolidWorks Tools > Copy Settings Wizard.

Activating Client Installations

You can specify that client licenses are activated automatically when the client installation completes, or you can leave it to the users to do manually after installation.

This option is available only if both of the following are true:
  • You entered one or more non-SolidNetWork License serial numbers.
  • One or more products requiring activation were selected for installation.


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