Design Manager 7

The download allows for the installation if Design Manager, Voyager, the Network License Manager, the Client/Server Engine and a Update Patch. The Update Patch contains only the Desman.Exe file and should only be used on an existing installation. Please note that if installing or updating Design Manager a release code is required, a 30 days grace period allows you work whilst this is being obtained.

Version 7.9  - Windows 7/AutoCAD 2012/Inventor 2012 compatible

Download the zip file, extract to a suitable folder and then run DmMaster.Exe and select the type of installation required.

Click here to DOWNLOAD Design Manager 7.9 Installer

***IMPORTANT ***

Inventor 2012 will not work with Design Manager if 2011 is still installed. Inventor 2011 MUST be fully removed before 2012 is installed. If you find that Design Manager will not work with Inventor 2012 it is likely that vestiges of 2011 still exist in the system registry.

AutoCAD 2010/11/12 no longer ships with Visual Basic Support which Design Manager requires to function fully. You must download and install this separately. Please visit http://www.autodesk.com/vba-download to download the required software.

Microsoft Vista / Windows 7

We recommend that the default installation folder of C:\desman is used and NOT a Program Files location.

Windows 7 appears to add security to mapped drives which can stop Design Manager working, the symptoms are that Design Manager reports it cannot open some files. One option is to select the network share and then add the user/group to the security settings giving them "Full Control". The other solution is to use a UNC path when setting up Design Manager. This can be done in the Design Manager Database Management application on the "General Settings" tab. Change the General Database path and the Saved Search Path. The UNC path will be of the form \\servername\share. DmBase.ini in your database folder will also need editing, the section you require in this file is below [Database]. The setting will probably be of the form "main=f:\dmdata" and would be changed to "main=\\servername\dmdata" where "Servername" is the name of your server.

Problem Solving

Speed

If Design Manager seems slow, particularly when making changes to data, try the following:

• Make sure all users are logged out of Design Manager
• Delete the .cdx files in your database directory, be careful not to touch any other files.
• Restart Design Manager

Data and Index corruption and Speed problems.

If you are experiencing data and index corruption or speed problems (duplicate Document Ids is a common problem) it may be because your workstations and server are set to use OpportunisticLocking. This is known to cause problems with any Multi-user database application. Please download OpLocks.Exe and run it on all workstations and your server, press the Disable button, then re-boot all machines and the server.

This also partially solves slowdowns that occur when NT Service Pack 6 is installed, our recommendation is to NOT install this service pack unless you have other problems that it is known to solve. 'If it ain't broke don't fix it'.

Standard Field No. Changes

If you change any of the standard fields such as Sheet Size, Doc. Type, Scale on the Title Block or Application properties tabs you should then check that the field order is OK. From the Tabs page on properties check the 'Order' box and then press 'Save'. If an error occurs refer to the panel that pops out on the right of the dialog and make the corrections required. If this is not done it will lead to errors when editing existing and creating new document records.

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