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Say you purchased SOLIDWORKS Premium only due to budget constraints. Over time, once your budget expanded, you realized that having SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation (or other SOLIDWORKS software) would help meet your business' profit initiatives. So now you have SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation, and you have the correct files installed on your computer. All you need to do is activate them with the new serial number provided to you by your reseller so that you can activate Flow Simulation (or other SOLIDWORKS license) to help further your business.

 

The SOLIDWORKS installation manager is an application that makes use of HTML files to organize the structure of what is displayed. In situations where the SOLIDWORKS Installation Manager malfunctions and shows no options whatsoever, such as the image below, the HTML files may be the culprit.

The SOLIDWORKS Performance Evaluation tool, (formerly knowns as Assembly Xpert) lets users analyze the performance of assemblies and, in some cases, you can select to have the software make changes to your assembly to improve performance. Please Note: If the model has not been rebuilt in the current version of SOLIDWORKS, there is no rebuild data available, so not all the tests can be performed.

At times, the SOLIDWORKS floating license service must be placed on a machine that is also running the SOLIDWORKS modeling software. In such cases, the order of installations becomes important to ensure the license service functions normally for all clients (including the server/client itself) once finished.

To properly activate the SolidNetWork License Manager, there a few steps involved that should be completed before updating the clients. Install/Upgrade the SolidNetWork License Manager using the Installation Manager. Open the SolidNetWork License Manager. You should see five tabs, one being the Server Administration tab.

Often a SOLIDWORKS user will have the wrong file location paths for an installation of SOLIDWORKS, which can cause the program to either fail or produce ineffective behavior. This article provides a clearly defined outline of the referenced paths that SOLIDWORKS requires to perform correctly.

This tutorial demonstrates how to create a product-specific admin image in SOLIDWORKS that needs to be added to a SOLIDWORKS installation. This can also be used to install a product for a user that only needs the specific product, and not the entire installation.

If you cannot deploy the SOLIDWORKS Admin Image and determine that it is a permissions issue on the client side, these are the steps needed to get the image to deploy correctly. To do this browse to the SOLIDWORKS admin image folder, right-click and to go properties.

The installation of SOLIDWORKS can fail to complete for several different reasons including insufficient user permissions and actively running antivirus/firewall applications. One installation error that can be particularly problematic to troubleshoot is error 1402. This guide will cover the symptoms tied to the SOLIDWORKS installation error 1402 and the workflow to resolve it.