SOLIDWORKS Electrical Installation

Where do I obtain SOLIDWORKS Electrical software?
How do I Prepare my computer for a successful installation?
How do I properly install SOLIDWORKS Electrical?

Obtaining the Software

If you already have SOLIDWORKS products installed on your machine, please Modify the installation to add SOLIDWORKS electrical to your current installation

To download the software you will need to go to the GoEngineer Downloads page
https://www.goengineer.com/solidworks-downloads/
To extract the software you will need to extract the download (zipped) with 7zip extractor
http://www.7-zip.org/a/7z1701-x64.exe

Prepping Up Your Computer for Successful Installation

It is best practice to pause or disable any real-time protection of your Anti-Virus

Microsoft Windows has different rights for different groups and you will want to be sure that you have the correct rights to install on your server machine

Please Make sure that You will be installing the same version of Electrical as you will or already have SOLIDWORKS installed

Communication
Default port for the Collaborative Server – TCP and UDP 26666 (required to be opened bi-directionally at all times)
Default port for the SQL Server – TCP and UDP 1433 (required to be opened bi-directionally at all times)

Installing SOLIDWORKS Electrical – Client Installation

Starting the Installation
Please Navigate to the downloaded software from the link above
Right-Click on the ‘Setup’ file and Select Run as Administrator
You will now enter the Installation Manager

Select Individual (on this computer)
Select ‘Next’

The next screen you will come to will allow you to input your serial numbers for your different SOLIDWORKS products
Please check to see if the SOLIDWORKS Electrical serial is the same as your SOLIDWORKS serial number

If you have a different SOLIDWORKS Electrical Serial number, expand the Electrical Design section

Once you have all of the necessary serial numbers for your products, please select ‘Next’

SOLIDWORKS will now check the entitlements for the serial numbers entered and allow you to install products that are allowed to be installed using the numbers input

Once the Software is finished with entitlements, you will come to the summary page
This page is a very important page of the installation
This is where you can double check the installation of each product

Check to make sure that the proper SOLIDWORKS Electrical products are installed
Select Change next to Products
Scroll down to where you see SOLIDWORKS Electrical
If you have not installed SOLIDWORKS Electrical on a server you will want to checlk all of the electrical options

If you have installed SOLIDWORKS Electrical on a server, you do not need Collaborative Server or Data checked

Once complete select ‘Back to Summary’ or Next (depending on the version you are installing)

Click to expand the Electrical Options to see how electrical will be installed

It is recommend that you select change to see what option are available and know what the software is doing in the background

You will see two major sections Collaborative Server and SQL Server

Collaborative Server
Please enter the name of your server that the Collaborative Server will be installed on

SQL Server
Please enter the name of the server that SQL is or will be installed on

Select the instance desired and select ‘OK’
If you do not have an existing server, please select Install a new instance of SQL Server

Please specify Windows authentification or Login/Password authentication
Your IT department will be able to tell you which method to use and what the SQL user name and password is.

It is recommended that you keep the password as default in case anything happens, you will always know what the default password is. Support also knows the default password just in case you run into any issues.

Once Complete, select Back to Summary

Select Install now 

Enjoy Using the Software!!