Additional Power of Admin Images

Ever thought of using an admin image for all of your stand-alone Solidworks installations? Solidworks has a great tool that allows the correct products, with the correct serial number, to be installed by windows login name. This ensures that every user gets the products they should and they don't have to keep track of the serial number they should use to install. The tool is the Admin Image Option Editor and works in conjunction with the new installation manager introduced in 2007. It is accessible once an admin image has been created, in the shared folder where the image was saved. The first Admin Image should be created with every product needed. Navigate to the sldim folder and select sldamdinimageoptioneditor.















Double click on this and an application will start up where users and groups can be set up.














To set up a user, the user name is the Microsoft Windows login name and the display name is anything you want. Then add the serial number for every product that the user should have installed.
















To install the Solidworks products the users will browse from their computer to the shared folder where the image was saved and run the StartSWInstall HTML file.