This guide describes installation, licensing, upgrading, and
administration of SOLIDWORKS products for both individual installations and multiple
installations.
| Individual Installations |
Deploying Multiple Installations |
| Installation Installation
on one or a few computers.
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Installation Creation of
an administrative image that is deployed to a number of client computers.
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| Licensing Machine activation
or
network licensing.
|
Licensing Machine activation or network
licensing.
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| Upgrades Moving
individual computers to a new release.
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Upgrades Moving multiple
computers to a new release by updating the administrative image used to install on
those computers.
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| Administration Modifying,
repairing, and removing installations, upgrading to new releases.
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Administration Upgrading
administrative images and clients, and network licensing
administration.
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SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager enables you to configure settings for
SOLIDWORKS product components, including SOLIDWORKS, SOLIDWORKS
Toolbox,
SOLIDWORKS Electrical, SOLIDWORKS Manage, SOLIDWORKS PDM, SOLIDWORKS Visualize, and SOLIDWORKS
SolidNetWork License Manager.
SolidNetWork License
Manager supports multiple license clients by distributing licenses to clients on the
network. This allows the number of users to exceed the number of licenses by using floating
licenses.