2008 DVD or download 2008
2008 DVD or download 2008
(OP)
It's possible to download 2008 off SW website correct? SW site is telling me my subscription isn't valid (I'll deal with that later).
If one can down load it is there any difference? Reason I ask is our current machines don’t have DVD drives we're getting new machines beginning of next year so it's not practical to install DVD drives now or buy an external DVD drive.
thanks
If one can down load it is there any difference? Reason I ask is our current machines don’t have DVD drives we're getting new machines beginning of next year so it's not practical to install DVD drives now or buy an external DVD drive.
thanks
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2007 SP 3.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 3000






RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
DVD drives are really cheap nowadays. If your company can't/won/t spring for a few, they are even cheaper. If you have SNL you only need one DVD drive to install on a server and make an admin image to distribute the install via the network.
RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
What the benefits of using a SNL? As of now we have SW installed on each machine which has it's own serial #. Is SNL for really large companies? We have about 15 seats total in 2 offices.
Thanks
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2007 SP 3.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 3000
RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
Just install the image to a server and you can run the installs from there. You can apply service packs to the image and update the clients as well.
SNL is just license hosting so you can install SolidWorks on more machines than you have licenses for. We have 25 licenses on SNL and have 100 people with SolidWorks installed. Most only use it occasionally so we never use up the 25 we have at any one time.
I believe you can upgrade your seats to SNL for a fee per seat.
Jason
SolidWorks 2007 SP4.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2008 SP0.0 on WinXP SP2
RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
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RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
rockguy ... that is my understanding also. SW07 was the same. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that a full uninstall and re-install was necessary.
RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
So we'll have some sort of "link" to click on and that will start installing from the image on the server?
That will still allow us to have our own settings and toolbars ect. on are individual machine? Correct?
thanks again for the help.
Grant
Applications Engineer
SW2007 SP 3.0
IBM InteliStation Pro M
P4 3.4 GHz, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2.0
NIVIDA Quadro FX 3000
RE: 2008 DVD or download 2008
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