Corel CorelCAD 2018 Instruction Manual

CorelCAD 2018 Network deployment instructions v2018-01 page 1 of 6

This document contains information for IT administrators that need to deploy CorelCAD™ 2018 in
a network.

The instructions in this document refer to CorelCAD 2018 for Windows, being deployed to
Windows 10, Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 workstations.

Note for Apple Mac OS X: CorelCAD 2018 for macOS does not support any deployment
mechanisms. Please install CorelCAD 2018 directly from DVD or download installation files (DMG).
Please read the additional notes related to product activation in the “Activating CorelCAD 2018

installation server image” section in this document.

Workstation requirements

You can install CorelCAD 2018 for Windows on workstations that meet the following
requirements:

• 32-bit application version: Microsoft

®

Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1 or Windows® 7 (32-bit or

64-bit editions)

• 64-bit application version: Microsoft

®

Windows® 10, Windows® 8.1 or Windows® 7 64-bit

editions

• Intel Core 2 Duo, or AMD Athlon x2 Dual-Core processor

• 2 GB RAM (8 GB or more recommended)

• 500 MB hard disk space

• 3D Graphics accelerator card with OpenGL version 1.4 (OpenGL version 3.2 or better

recommended)

• 1280 x 768 screen resolution (1920 x 1080 (Full HD) recommended)

• Mouse or Tablet

• Microsoft

®

.NET Framework 4.5.2 (setup is included and will be installed with the application

if not present)

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 (setup is included and will be installed with the application if not

present)

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Deploying CorelCAD 2018 for Windows

Deploying CorelCAD 2018 for Windows is done in 2 stages:

1) Creating a server image of the installer files

2) Installing the software to the client PCs

Creating a server image

CorelCAD2018_x86.exe and CorelCAD2018_x64.exe (as either downloaded from coreldraw.com or
received on DVD) contain all files needed to deploy the application in the network.

For installing the application to multiple PCs in the network you need to extract the installation
files to a network share using an administrative installation as initial step:

Preparing software deployment / Creating an administrative setup:

To initialize the setup for creating a server image, you use a command line.

You can create either a 32-bit server image or a 64-bit image.

The following command line lets you create a 32-bit server image from the installation disc
(where X: is the disc drive, U: is the target network share for the installation files to be placed):

X:\CorelCAD2018_x86.exe /a “U:\ServerImages\CorelCAD2018_x86\”

The following command line lets you create a 64-bit server image:

X:\CorelCAD2018_x64.exe /a “U:\ServerImages\CorelCAD2018_x64\”

This will create the following items (identical file/ folder names for 64-bit and 32-bit installation):

.\files\CommonAppDataFolder\

Application files to be installed to \Common\AppData folder

.\files\program files\

CorelCAD administrative install files

.\files\CorelCAD_2018_SP0.msi

CorelCAD 2018.0 administrative installer

.\files\NDP452-KB2901954­Web.exe

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 Setup

.\files\vc140_vcredist_x64.exe
OR vc140_vcredist_x86.exe

Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable
.\files\vsta_setup.exe

Microsoft VisualStudio Tools for Applications installer file

.\CorelCADInstaller.exe

The install chainer

Activating CorelCAD 2018 installation server image

CorelCAD 2018 needs to be activated to run with all features enabled. Without product activation
the application will only start in Demo mode (with limited functionality, no output (save, export,
print) capabilities), asking for a product activation every time it is started.

When deploying the software to multiple clients you can use a central activation which is stored
with the administrative installation in a license file on the server image.