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Additional apps (edrawings) installed with admin image

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cwsink

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Mar 22, 2006
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Hello,

I have created and installed from an admin image (sw2007sp0.0) and now I'm attempting to create my "additional apps.bat" file. I've referenced thread559-123403 but I wasn't able to unzip the files from the *.exe file using winzip. I had the evaluation version, do I need pro?

Thanks,

Craig Sink
Mechanical Engineer
Force Design, Inc.
 
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I haven't tried the eval version, but I have successfully unzipped the files from the EXE for the Pro version as well as the free viewer/publisher.
 
What version of SW are you trying to install (Pro, Premium) and what additional apps?
There are a couple of differences with the admin image for '07 versus previous years and they weren't well documented.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
 
Installing sw07 Pro. The additional apps were SWExplorer, eDrawings, & DWGEditor. I installed everything on my computer from the DVD, and these additional apps were automatically installed. However, the client machines which I installed from the admin image-created from the install on my machine-did not include the additional apps. I attempted to create a *.bat file to do this and had a little trouble getting it accomplished. I ended up doing most of it manually...grr..

Thanks,

Craig Sink
Mechanical Engineer
Force Design, Inc.
 
My batch file, which runs after the initial install, looks like this:
Msiexec /I"\\server\Updates\Solidworks\SW 07\Cosmos\i386_COSMOSWorks_English.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SolidWorks" /qb.
Msiexec /I"\\server\Updates\Solidworks\SW 07\Add-ins\swexplorer\SolidWorks Explorer.msi" EXPLORERORPDM=1 INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SolidWorks" ADDLOCAL=Client /qb.
Msiexec /I"\\server\Updates\Solidworks\SW 07\Add-ins\DWGeditor\DWGeditor.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SolidWorks" /qb.
Msiexec /I"\\server\Updates\Solidworks\SW 07\Add-ins\eDrawings\eDrawings.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SolidWorks" /qb.

I don't know if this will help you out or not...

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
 
Also, below is the .bat file I used for the additional apps. I did have one issue, the Explorer didn't install with the SW addin, I had to manually modify the install.

Here it is:

rem **Install dwgEditor
s:
"S:\SOFTWARE\SOLIDWORKS\SWADMIN2007\SolidWorks 2007 SP 1.1_DWGEditor\DWGeditor.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\DWGeditor" /qb

REM **Install eDrawings
"S:\SOFTWARE\SOLIDWORKS\SWADMIN2007\SolidWorks 2007 SP 1.1_EDRAWINGS\eDrawings.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS\common files\eDrawings" LOGPERFORMANCE=0 ADDLOCAL=All /qb

REM **Install SolidWorks Explorer
"S:\SOFTWARE\SOLIDWORKS\SWADMIN2007\SolidWorks 2007 SP 1.1_explorer\SolidWorks Explorer.msi" INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS\SWExplorer" /qb

Thanks,


Craig Sink
Mechanical Engineer
Force Design, Inc.
 
Mirisj,

Hmmmm...That's basically like what I started with. I got an error that said something like "this file is not a recognizable...." I forget the rest, but, basically it didn't work. I could dble-click on it and also see my previous post, but the correct syntax didn't work. Odd.

I'll keep looking into it.

Craig Sink
Mechanical Engineer
Force Design, Inc.
 
Jeff,

I copied your .bat file and changed the paths to match mine..and it worked! I'm not sure what I was doing wrong...but the main thing is to know what works. I did wonder if I didn't have a backslash "\" after the msiexec rather than a "/", but I don't know.

Thanks for the help,

Craig Sink
Mechanical Engineer
Force Design, Inc.
 
Chris,
I'm glad I could help.
Remember, if your clients install via the html tag that the admin image creates, they should be updated automatically after you apply a service pack to the admin image.

Jeff Mirisola, CSWP
CAD Administrator
SW '07 SP1.0, Dell M90, Intel 2 Duo Core, 2MB RAM, nVidia 2500M
 
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