eDrawings admin image? 1

[toocoo3]

Hi everyone, Ive been on this forum for a while and have learned a lot about the whole administrative image process from here. But now Ive got another snag that I cant find the answer to anywhere else, so here it is.

Ive got the whole Solidworks network admin image down and the updates to it, but what I cant seem to figure out is how to silently install updated eDrawings (non-pro) without any user interaction. Everywhere I read about this is to create an admin install of edrawings on the network, but I cant do this since the newest version of eDrawings that I download from Solidworks website (same area where SW SP's are downloaded) is in .exe form, and there's no options for creating a .msi file. What I wasnt sure about is whether this was only an option for licensed versions of eDrawings or what. Any ideas?

 

[MElam]

I use WinZip to extract the contents of the .exe to it's own folder. You will be able to access the .msi from there.

Then place this line in the post-install batch file:
start /wait msiexec /i "(insert admin image path here)\eDrawingsProEnglish\eDrawings.msi" LOGPERFORMANCE=0 ADDLOCAL=All /qb

 

[toocoo3]

Ahhhh, thanks a lot MElam, I had no idea I could open an .exe like that and unzip it. All makes sense now