Update existing or clean install

Have you done any in-house testing on your parts and assemblies yet ???? Just because other people aren't having problems doesn't mean you won't. There have been some issues in several areas from network problems to PDM to corrupt files. 18 seats is alot, and if your company comes to a screeching halt someones gonna be pissed.

Assuming you have tested it, always back up active data in the old format first. You may also want to install 2007 beside 2006 and phase it in in a gradual organized manner.

The only bullet proof way to install is a new installation, either beside the old version, or after uninstalling the old version. Never, I repeat, NEVER, do an upgrade install of Solidworks. It never has worked right (to complex I guess)

Good Luck

Mark

For 18-seats I would uninstall all previous and install the new.

Pats Fan schrieb:

I have had, and I'm still having, some strange issues with running SW2006 SP5 and SW2007 SP1 (Office) on the same machine.

For starters, when I first tried installing SW2007 without a clean install my SW2006 stopped working - some licensing issue. It decided that it couldn't find the dongle for SW2006. I posted about this and the advice I received was to use the new style serial for SW2006, which worked great except that now my Photoworks has stopped working in SW2006 (again, it think's it's not licensed).

Then I did a completly clean install and installed both SW2006 and SW2007 again, only to find the same problem. Thanks to the help of 'asow34' from this group I think I have to go in and modify the registry to fiddle the license numbers or something.

I've also had some trouble importing IGS assemblies that have come from ProE, though no-one has been able to verify if this is just me or a bug. I could bring the same assemblies into Rhino however......

Also, I've seen several posts about the 'unable to save document' problem with SP1, which on all your seats could be a HUGE problem.

Good luck whatever you do....

When we upgraded we did it as an upgrade and things seemed to go pretty good. Then I had issues and did an uninstall/reinstall and homemade add-ins don't work now. They work for all the upgraded machines, just not the 2 that have new installations.

Also, we used an admin image and it didn't install everything the way the cds do. It didn't install the installation manager, e-drawings, or dwgeditor.

2. Pats Fan wrote:

Ok, I have to take the other side here.

We also have 18 seats, although not quite all are in use right now. My procedure has always been to install the new version on my machine for the beta cycle and then install on the others after I have used the CD version a bit and listened to the chatter here. But, I always still have the older version up and running at the same time so if there is a project that the user wants to finish without the risk of updating right at the end, it can be done. The main thing to watch out for is inadvertent updating of referenced files. This also lets me try out the new stuff on our own files before jumping in and finding a show stopper.

My installation scheme is that I do each machine personally as they are ready for it. I have copied the CD/DVD files to a network drive, and then I have a batch file that pretty much runs everything, so I get easy, consistent installs. I tell it to install each version in its own folder, such as "C:\Program Files\SolidWorks2006" - notice the lack of the space before the 2006. That non-space is not important in itself, but more for consistency in applying the registry files. I also do the same for the common files. That way I can always run any version I still have installed - I NEVER install a new version as an upgrade.

Now, as a disclaimer, we don't have to use a dongle, nor do we run Toolbox, so I can't attest to the usability of my method if those are part of the picture.

We have been using it here for over a month and the benefits outweigh the potholes. Just yesterday I ran into a situation where I was converting and importing some Catia files. SW2006 would crash on some of them - SW2007 worked fine. So, I look at these situations more from the side of can I live with the downfalls of the new version, rather than asking if the new version is perfect yet.

WT

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Lucky you can upgrade one at a time. Here, most of our 10 people work collaboratively. So it has to be all or none.