


When a new release of SOLIDWORKS is run for the first time on a system that had a previous version of SOLIDWORKS installed, the new release will use the existing registry information from the most recent major release. File locations, along with all other custom settings in SOLIDWORKS, are stored in the Windows registry. The purpose of the SOLIDWORKS Copy Settings Wizard is to copy settings from one computer and transfer them to another computer so that they all have the same file locations, performance settings, etc. The easiest way to copy your settings is to use the SOLIDWORKS Copy Settings Wizard. Have you ever wondered why this happens during an upgrade? One issue that comes up very often is that the Default Template locations and other Tools-Options-File Locations are pointing to the old locations where the previous release was installed. After SOLIDWORKS releases a new major release, we receive a lot of phone calls to Computer Aided Technology, Inc.
