eDrawings Installation and Administration Guide

SolidWorks� eDrawings� Installation and Administration Guide

Installation Types

Available SolidWorks� eDrawings� products are:

SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer. View and create SolidWorks eDrawings files and other supported file types. A free version and a fee-based SolidWorks eDrawings Professional version exist (See the "Licensing" section below).
SolidWorks eDrawings Publishers. Create eDrawings files from inside CAD applications. Currently there are publishers for these applications:

AutoCAD®
Autodesk Inventor®
CATIA®
Google™ SketchUp®
IntelliCAD®
KOMPAS-3D
NX™/Unigraphics®
OneSpace Designer Modeling
Pro/ENGINEER®
Solid Edge®
SolidWorks® The SolidWorks eDrawings Publisher is installed with the SolidWorks application.

These applications are installed directly on the local hard drive.

Some CAD applications install the eDrawings application when you install the CAD application. Check your local hard drive for an installed version of the eDrawings application.

Availability

SolidWorks eDrawings products are available at these web sites or from your CAD application disk:

Licensing

Licensing is required for SolidWorks eDrawings Professional, which is the SolidWorks eDrawings Viewer with enhanced functionality. The primary methods of licensing are:

SolidWorks eDrawings Professional standalone
SolidWorks Professional*
SolidWorks Premium*
SolidWorks eDrawings Professional - network - SolidNetwork License (SNL)

SolidWorks eDrawings Publishers for CATIA and for NX/Unigraphics require licensing.

* When SolidWorks eDrawings Professional is installed as part of SolidWorks Professional or SolidWorks Premium, SolidWorks eDrawings Professional functionality is available if the SolidWorks license has been activated or you are within the grace period.

Installation Methods

You install the SolidWorks eDrawings application:

From the CAD application disk.
From the eDrawings disk or web site.
- From a silent installation (see details below).
- From an administrative image (see details below).
Via email (From an eDrawings file sent to you as an HTML, ZIP, or EXE file).

The SolidWorks eDrawings application detects existing installations and automatically upgrades the installation. Upgrades are performed within major releases. For example, if eDrawings 2007 Service Pack 1 is already installed and you install eDrawings 2007 Service Pack 2, the existing installation is upgraded. At major releases, you can only install as a new installation; upgrading is not permitted.

Silent Installation and Administrative Images

See the Properties section for a complete list of global properties.

Silent Installation

Silent installations install applications without the display of a user interface or dialog boxes by initially passing all the options on the command line. For more information, see the Windows Installer Help from Microsoft corporation.

To start a silent installation, use the /i and /qn options of the msiexec.exe command. Set the global properties for those installation options that you want to be different from the default values. For example:

msiexec /i "<Msi_path>" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\<your_folder>" REGCODE=<eDrawings_Professional_license_key> ADDLOCAL=All /qn

Administrative Image

To locate the eDrawings.msi file:

On a CAD or eDrawings disk, browse to the file.
With an eDrawings executable file from the SolidWorks web site, right-click the executable file and extract the contents (including the eDrawings.msi file) to a folder.

An administrative image is used as a central location to install the SolidWorks eDrawings software. After administrators install the administrative image, users can run the SolidWorks eDrawings setup from the administrative image to install the eDrawings software. Administrators can also push the administrative image to another location.

Administrators install an administrative image from the command line by using the /a command line option. To get the default English install, type this at the command line:

msiexec /a eDrawings.msi

To install in a foreign language using the administrative image, you need to apply a transform file that contains all the language-specific items. For example, type this at the command line for Chinese:

msiexec /a eDrawings.msi TRANSFORMS=1028.mst

See the Properties section for a list of transform files numbers for all supported languages.

Properties

This section contains an example of installation syntax plus a list of all the defined global properties and their descriptions.

Example of installation syntax:

msiexec /i "<Msi_path>"

INSTALLDIR="<path_and_folder>"

LOGPERFORMANCE=1 (or 0 (not))

REGCODE=<eDrawings_Professional_license_key>

SNLSERVER=<eDrawings_SNL_server>

TRANSFORMS=<language-specific number>.mst

ADDLOCAL=All

Bold values indicate the default value.

In serial number formats, the x is an alphanumeric character.

Property	Description and format
ADDLOCAL	Specifies which portion of the eDrawings application to install. All is the recommended option. Command line feature names are case sensitive, cannot contain spaces or dashes, and must be separated by commas. See the complete list below:
	Command Line Syntax	Feature
	All	Installs all the features. The eDrawings application searches for installed SolidWorks and AutoCAD publisher applications to validate the install.
	eDrawingsViewer	View eDrawings and other files.
	CALS	View CALS files in the eDrawings Viewer.
	PublisherForAutoCADR14	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD R14 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2000	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2000 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2004	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2004 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2005	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2005 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2006	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2006 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2007	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2007 application.
	PublisherForAutoCAD2008	Create eDrawings files from the AutoCAD 2008 application.
	DXFDWGTranslator	View DXF/DWG files in the eDrawings Viewer.
	Shaders	Supply shader files if SolidWorks is not installed.
	XML3D	View 3DXML files in the eDrawings Viewer.
INSTALLDIR	Specifies the installation folder for SolidWorks. Defined for individual installations only.
LOGPERFORMANCE	Specifies whether the application should automatically email performance data to SolidWorks Corporation. 1 to send performance data, 0 otherwise.
REGCODE	Specifies the serial number for the SolidWorks eDrawings application. A license key for REGCODE is only required for eDrawings Professional licenses.
SNLSERVER	Enter the port@servername for your SolidNetWork License server. Use semi-colons to separate multiple port@servername combinations. A port server name for SNLSERVER is only required for the SolidWorks SNL server configuration. <list_of_ports@server_strings> is a list of strings delimited by semi-colons, each of which refers to a port number on a server with the format: xxxxx@<server_name1>; yyyyy@<server_name2>;� where x and y are single digits. After the last server in the list, do not put a semi-colon.
TRANSFORMS	Contains language-specific items. See the complete list below for all languages.
	Language	TRANSFORMS <Number>.mst
	Chinese	1028
	Chinese-Simplified	2052
	Czech	1029
	French	1036
	German	1031
	Italian	1040
	Japanese	1041
	Korean	1042
	Polish	1045
	Portuguese-Brazilian	1046
	Russian	1049
	Spanish	1034