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# Update Installer
The Update Installer check all installed PlantTools on your machine. It allows you to:
1. Update single or all PlantTools
2. Revert back to the last released version in case we provided you with a preliminary version
3. Checks if all installed PlantTools adhere to a certain minimum version. Which is defined through auxalia when we publish new releases.
Initiate Update Installer
The Update Installer checks you installed PlantTools when starting a PlantTools from your desktop (PlantCenter, PlantDataManager, PlantReporter) or when you start AutoCAD Plant 3D with PlantTools Plugins installed. This is what the Update Installer looks like. The details will be explained further down.
You can also manually run the Update Installer through PlantProjectSetup or from the footer of the main dialogs of the PlantTools. We also changed the messages in the footer to make it clearer what is installed or what is available. The various messages will be explained further down. You can now either double-click on the text...
... or use PlantProjectSetup and the **Check for updates...** button.
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| This image below shows all variations which can appear with your installed PlantTools. | | | | --- | --- | | Use Case **1** | The installed PlantTools is up-to-date and no action is required. | | Use Case **2** | A newer (developer) version is installed than was released. This happens when we provided you with a preliminary version for testing or with an urgent bug fix you needed. You can identify a developer version with the **999x** at the third position of the full version number. | |
Download & Installation
Download To download a single PlantTools you click on the download arrow in the **Status** column. You can also download all updates in one go by clicking on the small download arrow in the header line of the grid, right of the **Status** text. The color shows red if there is an update available which doesn't meet the required minimum version.
If you see **Version is newer** (Use Cases **2/3/6**) the text changes to a download arrow as soon as you move your mouse over the text. This allows you to get back to the last released version in case you want to go back from a preliminary/developer version.
While the updates are downloaded you see a progress bar.
The update.exe files are stored in your **Download** folder and will not be deleted after installation in case you want to use them to install them directly on other machine without downloading them again.
Installation After the downloads are completed
After closing the Update Installer you will get a notification.
After closing the PlantTools (for PlantCenter, PlantDataManager, PlantReporter) or Plant 3D (for the Plugins, PlantClashDetection, PlantDataManager, PlantExpressTools, PlantLink, PlantSpecDriven, PlantSync) the installation will start automatically. It may take a few seconds.
If you downloaded multiple Updates, they will be started one after the other.
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| As mentioned before, the footer shows more informative texts about your PlantTools. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
The following texts can appear in the footer: | | | | --- | --- | | Version X.X.X.XXXX is up-to-date | The installed version is current. | | New version X.X.X.XXXX available | A newer version is available for download. | | Update to version X.X.X.XXXX required | A newer version is available and MUST be installed. |