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Would you like to learn how to properly install a licensed Catia V5 setup? If your answer is yes, keep reading. 

Installing CATIA V5

The installation files located on the 3DS website are offered for download split into parts. When you obtain the CATIA V5 installation files, you will see a zip archive consisting of two parts, as shown in the image below.

We will not extract the files separately while unzipping them. Our goal is to ensure that both files merge into a single folder. Therefore, after selecting both files, you need to right-click with your mouse and select “Extract Here” using a zip software. With this process, you will obtain a single extracted and merged file. You can use 7zip or WinRAR software to unzip.

When you open the extracted folder, you will see a folder named “1”. Inside this folder, you can see the Setup exe. We right-click on Setup with the mouse and “Run as Administrator”. We proceed through the installation steps without changing anything. It is beneficial not to change the installation location. After the location selection screen, a popup like the one in the image will appear. You must continue the installation by clicking Yes to the question asking if you want the folders for the specified path to be created. If you are installing for the first time, you may see the creation of the CATIA Environment directory path in the next step. Continue the installation by clicking Yes to this as well, as shown in the warning below.

Proceed without changing anything until the “Install” step. We start the installation by pressing the Install button that appears in the final step. When the installation process is complete, a window like the one below will appear.

Here, the “I want to launch CATIA now” checkbox is selected by default. Since we have not yet performed any licensing and Service Pack installation at this stage, we uncheck this box as shown in the image and complete the installation process.

Install Service Pack

It is also beneficial to install the Service Pack, which includes the latest updates and bug fixes. We extract the Service Pack installation file from the zip archive as well. If you have not performed an installation before, finding the Service Pack executable file might not seem as easy as it was for the V5 installation. The application file is located inside the WIN64 folder and is named “StartSPK”. Continue reading 👇

In another article, I will explain how to install the DS License Server and how to set up the necessary rules on Windows.