If you used the Check for Updates command discussed earlier, you will also find yourself at this same screen, but you will not see this screen if you use the Background Downloader. Run the file and the Installation Manager opens. This is the compressed, self-extracting, self-executing version of the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager.
After clicking the Downloads and Updates link and navigating through the EULA, you’ll wind up with a file named “SolidWorksSetup.exe”. Check out this blog for steps in creating an account. Using your favorite web browser, head to log in to the Customer Portal, and click the link for Downloads and Updates:ĭon’t have a Customer Portal account? You should, so go ahead and create one. You will need a SOLIDWORKS Customer Portal account. However, if your company has multiple users, or has an IT department and you will not be personally installing or updating SOLIDWORKS anyway, disable the background downloader.
(Many SOLIDWORKS users do not do this, and have no idea where the files are downloaded to.) Lastly, you can choose to either Automatically Check for Updates, Automatically Download Updates, or Disable Background Downloader. You can also change where the downloads are saved. If you fall into this latter category, don’t use the Background Downloader.īy right clicking the Background Downloader icon, you can choose to alter how frequently it checks for updates (the default is every 2 days). If, on the other hand, your company has multiple licenses, you are better off with the full file set, which allows for installing the software anywhere, on any computer. This is fine if you have a slow internet connection or only have one license of SOLIDWORKS.
They are just enough to get your software up to a particular service pack. If you let it download an update, the files which are downloaded are a partial file set. Automatically, it will periodically check for updates and will download updates with little or no input from you. The Background Downloader runs by default after installing SOLIDWORKS. That won’t happen if you use the Download and Share… option, which we will talk about shortly. Using the Check for Updates… command is easy enough, as long as you don’t try to update SOLIDWORKS while it’s running. Image 1: Using the Help menu to check for updates. Use the SOLIDWORKS Help menu and click Check for Updates… There are a couple different ways to get the latest version of the SOLIDWORKS software. There is a particular technique to this, so I will discuss what you should do, as well as what you shouldn’t. Specifically, the fact that you can download SOLIDWORKS from any computer and use that file set to install the product anywhere. Considering how frequently installation questions arise during technical support cases, it needs to be discussed more frequently.
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