The Installation Manager has detected a newer version of SOLIDWORKS products. You can choose to install the version contained in the original installation DVD or download, or you can choose to download and install the newer version.
If You Are Installing from a Download
Choose one of the following:
- Continue installing version.
Select this option to continue
installing the version contained in the initial download.
- Download and install a new version: version.
Select this option
to download and install the new version. If there are multiple new versions available,
you can select the version to download and install.
If You Are Installing from a DVD
Under
Would you like to use the newer version?,
choose one of the following:
- No, continue installing version from this DVD. You can update afterwards.
Select this option to continue with the installation using the current
Installation Manager.
After the installation completes, you can
check for and install updates using the Installation Manager. To check for updates,
run .
Check for Updates is only
available if you have administrative privileges on the machine.
The advantage is that this results in a smaller download. The
disadvantages are that this is a two-step process and the files that you download are
version-specific (and cannot be shared by other users using different
versions).
- Yes, perform installation using this DVD, then download and
update to version.
Select this option to download and run a later version of the Installation Manager to
install SOLIDWORKS products for that version.
If a small Service
Pack release is available to update the DVD version, Installation Manager installs the
original version from the DVD and then applies the Service Pack update. This results
in a smaller download.
You can achieve the same result by
selecting the option to continue installing from the DVD and then applying the update
at a later date.
The advantage of this option is that it is a
one-step process.