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Downloaded U4 MSI, still no way to install the Viewer with that - what's the status for the separate Viewer MSI? @Tim Ardoin, @tdiamond

Huh, there is a way to install the viewer via MSI now? How? And was this announced anywhere?

This is our parameter line: ALLUSERS=1 /L*v c:\admin\VWXSetup.log /qn INSTALLDIR="C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2026" SERIAL="ourserial" Edit: we don't use install.bat, but call the MSI directly.

@Tim Ardoin Any news on that?

@Tim Ardoin The automatic LDF download during VWIM cli.bat install seems to be broken. I can't determine exactly when it broke, but my guess would be around new year.

Students can look up the IP by re-enabling the login dialog or simply looking at the contents of the XML anyways, but you don't need to copy the xml to the students appdata folder. You can deploy it to C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2026\Einstellungen\SeriesG (or the respective folder for your localization).

I don't know if this is possible with Intune (we use Baramundi), but we use one of our subscription serials for the installer and deploy the user's serial to the registry key afterwards. HKCU:\Software\Nemetschek\Vectorworks 31\Registration REG_SZ "User Serial Number" If you omit adding their serial into their registry, VWX will ask for the serial at first start (because the serial used during installation is written to the key of the install user only).

VWIM worked better for us than the MSI, when I tried it last time. Now it's the other way around, MSI makes our deployment much simpler. Viewer: thank's for the info!

So, a quick update / feedback: - I had to add ALLUSERS=1 to the command line in order to get it to reliably add the shortcut to the start menu and register in control panel/programs&features - How are we supposed to install the Viewer? The install.bat says "The viewer batch doesn't take serial or ldfFile", but there is no "viewer batch", and setting SERIAL="VIEWER" (because VWIM install works with that) or leaving it empty (tried both with no serial param and SERIAL=""), doesn't work.

Wow! Thanks for embracing MSI! 🙂 I know it has been an option for a while now, but VWIM worked better for us. I'll do my deployment testing tomorrow. Fingers crossed. 🙂

Per cli.js the URL is https://activation.vectorworks.net/get-license-description-file

LDF seems to be downloaded automatically during install if there is internet access and no --ldf is provided. We install our G-Series with this command: c:\vwim\resources\cli.bat install --installdir "C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2025" --serial "GXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX" -i "C:\vwim\install.vwim"

"Fun" fact: until U3 I was not able to cli.bat uninstall with the VWIM in my "install work" directory c:\VWIM. I had to use the VWIM installed in C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2025\Vectorworks 2025 Install Manager With U3 it's vice versa: the VWIM in C:\Program Files\Vectorworks 2025\Vectorworks 2025 Install Manager only shows "Preparing for uninstall" (translated from German), the VWIM in c:\VWIM is able to uninstall via cli.bat

Yes. And this explains why the VWIM download is double the size of the MSI.

This isn't correct anymore. Extracting the downloaded EXE will give you a "$PLUGINSDIR" folder. Inside that folder you will find a file named app64.7z Extracting that file will give you the actual VWIM files & folders.