SW 2019 Beta Announcement

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The SolidWorks  R&D team is very pleased to announce that the 2019 Beta program will be launched at the end of June 2018.

Their press release

[At SOLIDWORKS, we know that you don't just create drawings, but also that your drawings are built.

To help you streamline and accelerate the entire product development process, from concept to manufactured products, SOLIDWORKS 2019 contains hundreds of new user-focused enhancements.]

You'll note "user-focused" :-) for the others were perhaps not so without us realizing it. In other words, the whole process and not just making parts, drawings and files for the machines.

Question

how to install a Beta version on the same machine without it making a fuss about the 2018 version.

 

 

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Super! Too eager 

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If the codes are identical, we could put several versions of SW.

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Hello

To install 2 versions of SolidWorks on the same PC you need to find info HERE.

Thank you for testing this 2019 version, it's probably the next version I'll install, but it will be from SP4 :)

Kind regards

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Otherwise if you have a disk in reb, make a clone and install the 2019 on it so that even if there is a conflict you can go back to a clean system.

Better be careful

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No particular problem to install several versions on the same machine, you just have to be careful to link the right template files (basically ALL the paths in the system option/file locations.

Now to test a BETA version, I would really take a fresh formatted machine, isolated from the general network, to start with a healthy Windows base and be sure not to shoot something important.

If you don't have a physical machine available, maybe look at a virtual machine (WmWare for example) to do tests other than managing large asm, it may be enough.

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Maybe they will do as with 2018 SP03 and make an online version available. I had found it not bad to test the new features.

Otherwise I'd say like @stefbeno I would try on a virtual machine,

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Hello, thank you all

All the answers solve my problem but we can only put one correct answer, sorry.

I'll play it safe and install it on an external drive unless as @Pierre S says there is an online version.

I'll look at the solution of @Stefbeno I don't know (thanks Stef)

I forgot to say that it will be available in June! so be patient to get feedback :-)

Plush