X86-64 – Henry Poon's Blog https://blog.henrypoon.com Mon, 26 Aug 2019 00:23:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 83044199 How to Install Solidworks 2008 on a x64 Operating System https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/11/18/how-to-install-solidworks-2008-on-a-x64-operating-system/ https://blog.henrypoon.com/blog/2009/11/18/how-to-install-solidworks-2008-on-a-x64-operating-system/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:43:00 +0000 http://henrypoon.mooo.com/blog/how-to-install-solidworks-2008-on-a-x64-operating-system This guide will describe how to install Solidworks 2008 on a 64 bit operating system.  This has been tested on Windows 7 Professional x64 and with Solidworks 2008 SP4.0.

Update (Dec 8, 2009): I know that there is a copy of Solidworks 2008 that was released for 64 bit operating systems, but this article is talking purely about getting the 32 bit copy to work.

INSTALLING SOLIDWORKS

  1. Download and Install Orca MSI Editor.
    • link: http://www.technipages.com/download-orca-msi-editor.html
    • its use should be very straight forward
  2. Open English_i386_Solidworks.MSI inside the Solidworks set up files.  It should be in “Solidworks 2008 Office Premium SP 3.0 w COSMOS\swwi\data”
  3. Under “LaunchCondition”, change the “Not” to an “Or” in the line that has a description saying “x64 operating systems are incompatible/not supported”
  4. Disable any anti-virus programs
    • I’ve never had an anti-virus program cause any problems until now.  I had Bitdefender 2010 on my computer and it caused the installation to hang.
  5. Install Solidworks and apply the updates
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