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Installation and Upgrade Instructions
Instructions for installing Mechanica for the first time
The Pinnacle data set supplied with Mechanica
will be located here
- XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\My
Documents\Data\Clcdata
- W7 - C:\Users\<User>\My Documents\Data\Clcdata
These instructions are for doing a new
clean install, not an upgrade to a previously existing version.
- Uninstall any old version(s) of Mechanica that may exist on the machine.
- Use this link or go to the website directly and click the “download” link.
http://www.mechanicasoftware.com/download.htm
- Download mechanicasetup3.exe via the link.
- After downloading, Run mechanicasetup3.exe and follow the on-screen instructions carefully.
- After the initial install is complete you'll need to go back to the above link and download Mechanica.exe version 3.2011.
- Once downloaded, Move mechanica.exe to C:\Program Files\Mechanica 2011 overwriting a small place keeper file there by the same name.
- Click to run it.
Instructions for upgrading from an earlier version of Mechanica
The Pinnacle data set supplied with Mechanica,
if it exists at C:\Data\Clcdata, will be moved to
- XP - C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\My
Documents\Data\Clcdata
The purpose of steps 1-6 below are to
guarantee that if you want to access your Version 2 installation
you can do so immediately in the XP environment. We suggest
that you carefully read the following instructions before
beginning the upgrade.
- Make a Copy of your original Mechanica directory.
That is the original directory where Mechanica was installed,
normally ..\Program Files\Mechanica. Copy it, including
all sub directories, to ..\Program Files\Mechanica_V3
Later we will perform the upgrade only on this copy.
The original remains intact.
- Make a ZIP of the same directory and any other Mechanica
install directories that you want to guarantee protection
for. Now you have 2 backups of the same original Mechanica
directory. One is in ..\Program Files\Mechanica_V3, the
other in the zip you just created.
- Go to Start>>Control Panel>>Add Remove
Programs and Remove all installations of Mechanica.
- From http://www.mechanicasoftware.com/download.htm
get the Version 2 installer by clicking the ‘download’
link on the right of your screen. Then click ‘Download
mechanicasetup.exe’
- Reinstall Version 2 to its original directory. We have
now replaced (uninstalled) all remnants of the old Wise
installer and replaced everything with the new InstallShield
program for Version 2. The reason for this is explained
below.
- UnZIP the backup you made earlier over the new installation
for ..\Program Files\Mechanica. Mechanica Version 2 is
now restored completely and will function exactly as before.
Having removed the old Wise installer there will be no
problems launching Mechanica Ver 2 while Mechanica Ver
3 is present on the same machine. Otherwise the 2 installers
can cause problems if Windows sees both installer programs
trying to take responsibility for Mechanica installation(s).
- Delete any copies of Mechanica.exe that may be present
in your Download folder/directory.
- Now we begin the Ver 3 upgrade to the Copy
we previously made
..\Program Files\Mechanica_V3. Go here to download mechanicaupgrade3.exe,
the new
upgrader program. http://www.mechanicasoftware.com/download.htm.
- Have your login information (original email and serial
number) handy. Once you've
downloaded mechanicaupgrade3.exe, click on it to ...
- Launch mechanicaupgrade3.exe. If doing a first upgrade,
assuming you previously had more
than one Mechanica installation, we suggest that you initially
upgrade only one of them.
Once you are familiar with Ver 3.2011 then do the others.
- At the end of the upgrade process the Safe-Net SuperPro
drivers will be updated and that is
the last operation in the upgrade list.
- Launch Mechanica Ver 3.2011 by clicking ..\Program
Files\Mechanica_V3\Mechanica.exe
Subsequent upgrades to other Mechanica installations which
you may have on your hard drive can be done by launching
mechanicaupgrade3.exe, clicking search or manual, and
selecting the one(s) you want to upgrade. There is no
need to redo 1-7 above.
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