INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION SOLIDWORKS 2020 / Visualize Contents Legal Notices............................................................................................................6 1 SOLIDWORKS Installation and Administration......................................................9 Individual Installation or Administrative Image.............................................................................10 Check System and Software Requirements.................................................................................11 Installing 3DEXPERIENCE Add-Ins.............................................................................................11 2 Individual Installations..........................................................................................12 Installation on Individual Computers............................................................................................12 Administration of Individual Installations......................................................................................14 Modifying an Installation..........................................................................................................14 Repairing an Installation..........................................................................................................15 Rolling Back an Individual Installation to a Previous Service Pack.........................................15 Removing an Installation.........................................................................................................16 Upgrading to a New Release..................................................................................................16 Product Coexistence Rules.....................................................................................................17 3 Multiple Installations.............................................................................................19 Deploying to Multiple Clients........................................................................................................19 Using Administrative Images........................................................................................................19 Creating an Administrative Image from SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager........................20 Deploying an Administrative Image to Clients Through Email.....................................................36 Command-Line Deployment.........................................................................................................36 Preparing Clients for Command-Line Installation from an Administrative Image....................36 Installing from the Administrative Image Using the Command Line........................................45 Command-Line Properties......................................................................................................47 Deploying an Administrative Image Using Microsoft Active Directory.....................................58 Installing Windows Prerequisites Using Microsoft Active Directory.........................................59 Administration of Multiple Installations.........................................................................................62 Upgrading Administrative Images to a New Release..............................................................62 Service Pack Product Update Administration..........................................................................64 Removing an Installation.........................................................................................................66 4 SOLIDWORKS PDM and SOLIDWORKS Manage.............................................68 Listing of PDM Server Components.............................................................................................69 Understanding Differences between PDM Clients.......................................................................70 Before Installing PDM Server.......................................................................................................71 Installing a PDM Server with SLDIM............................................................................................72 Modifying a SOLIDWORKS PDM Server Installation..............................................................73 2 Contents Installing a PDM Client with SLDIM..............................................................................................74 5 SOLIDWORKS Electrical.....................................................................................75 Requirements for Installing SOLIDWORKS Electrical..................................................................76 Stand-Alone or Client/Server Installation.....................................................................................76 Configuring the Collaborative Server...........................................................................................77 Configuring Microsoft SQL Server................................................................................................78 Specifying the Data Location........................................................................................................79 6 SOLIDWORKS PCB............................................................................................80 Prerequisites.................................................................................................................................81 Installing PCB Services with SLDIM.............................................................................................81 Installing PCB with SLDIM............................................................................................................81 Changing the Default Admin Login...............................................................................................82 Installing SOLIDWORKS PCB Viewer .........................................................................................82 Installing the PCB Connector for Altium Designer........................................................................82 Post Installation............................................................................................................................83 Adding a User to PCB Services..............................................................................................83 Logging into a PCB Repository...............................................................................................84 Upgrading PCB Services..............................................................................................................84 Uninstalling PCB Services............................................................................................................85 7 SOLIDWORKS Visualize and SOLIDWORKS Visualize Boost...........................86 Prerequisites and System Requirements for SOLIDWORKS Visualize ......................................87 Installing SOLIDWORKS Visualize with SLDIM...........................................................................87 Post Installation Tasks............................................................................................................88 Installing Visualize Boost with SLDIM..........................................................................................90 Activating the Visualize Boost License....................................................................................90 Configuring Visualize Boost....................................................................................................90 8 SOLIDWORKS Admin Portal and Online Licensing............................................93 Accessing the Admin Portal..........................................................................................................93 Administrator Tasks......................................................................................................................93 Creating the First Administrator Account.................................................................................94 Managing Products and Services............................................................................................94 Managing Members and Licenses..........................................................................................95 Set Products to Use Online Licensing...................................................................................100 Promoting a User to Administrator........................................................................................101 SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal Register My Products........................................................101 Using SOLIDWORKS Products with Online Licensing...............................................................101 Logging into a SOLIDWORKS Product with an Online License............................................102 Using a SOLIDWORKS Product in Offline Mode..................................................................102 Switching Machines When Using Online Licenses...............................................................102 Synchronizing Settings and Options Across Multiple Machines............................................103 Notifying the SOLIDWORKS Product to Use Online Licenses..............................................103 Accessing the CAD Admin Dashboard ......................................................................................104 3 Contents 9 License Administration.......................................................................................105 Administering Individual