Downloading & Installing Solidworks 2024
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DOWNLOAD ALL THE FILES LOCATED IN THIS FOLDER AS PREVIOUSLY STATED: TO ACCESS THE DOWNLOAD AREA, YOU MUST BE LOGGED INTO YOUR ENGR.SHIP.EDU GMAIL ACCOUNT!
This folder contains files named Solidworks_2024.exe, Solidworks_2024.7z.001, and Solidworks_2024.7z.002. YOU MUST DOWNLOAD ALL THE FILES FOR THIS TO WORK! All the files except the executable are between 3 and 4 GB in size and might take some time to download depending on your network access.
PLEASE NOTE: The files NEED to be downloaded one at time. Do NOT allow Google to merge them into a single archive or convert them to zip files as this process WILL make them unusable. If you see a box stating “Preparing download”, stop the process and make sure you only have ONE file selected when starting a download!
Please make sure all files are downloaded before requesting additional assistance.
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Installation Directions
PLEASE NOTE: If all files, including the executable file, are not in the same folder, the extraction process WILL FAIL.
Once you have all the files downloaded to the same folder / location on your computer, launch the self-extracting executable called Solidworks_2024.exe. You will be prompted to provide an alternate location to extract the installation folder to or accept the default which will extract the installation archive to your current location. Once completed, the process should have created a new folder Solidworks_2024.
The new process has been simplified so you no longer need to select the proper installation options or configure the licensing information. Simply launch the startswinstall.exe program and wait. The initial dialog box might not allow you to press OK depending on your system configuration, but everything will kick off in 5 minutes.
You will know it started the install when the dialog box disappears. You will be left with a black window, which will remain until the installation is complete. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO RUN THE SCRIPT AGAIN, RESTART THE COMPUTER, OR MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES UNTIL THE BLACK WINDOW CLOSES!
When the installation completed, you might receive a window stating that installation errors were detected. This is caused if there are system updates pending on your machine. You can safely close this window. Solidworks will have installed properly but it is recommended that you reboot your computer so the rest of your system updates can be properly applied.
REMINDER: To use this software from off campus, you will be required to establish an active VPN connection in order to access the licensing server.
Once completed, launch Solidworks 2024 to verify functionality. Once you know your software is working, we recommend following the instruction to install SFTP Drive so you can access your files from the School of Engineering’s file server.
As long as everything works as desired, you can delete both the downloaded archive files and the Solidworks_2024 folder holding the installation files if you need disk space.
Redistribution of this software is in direct violation of the University’s computer usage policy.