Install gull system and the SOLIDWORKS add-in — gull system handbook

Downloading the app from your account, the Windows SmartScreen warning, registering the add-in in SOLIDWORKS and how to tell it connected.

Install gull system and the SOLIDWORKS add-in

Two installs: the gull system app on the computer and its add-in in SOLIDWORKS. Without the add-in the app cannot see the model.

Installing the app

  1. Sign in at gullsystem.com and open Account → Downloads.
  2. Download the installer. Setup.exe installs the app for your Windows user without administrator rights. MSI installs it for every user into Program Files and suits an IT department.
  3. Accept the Windows SmartScreen warning. The installer is not yet signed with a certificate, so Windows shows "Windows protected your PC". Click More info and then Run anyway.
  4. Start the app. The sign-in screen appears — continue with Sign in and activate this computer.

Registering the add-in in SOLIDWORKS

The add-in is what gull system reads and drives the model with. It is registered from the app, once per computer.

  1. In the app open System options (the gear icon in the window header) and the CAD integration category.
  2. In The add-in in SOLIDWORKS click Register. Windows asks once for an administrator confirmation — registering the add-in writes to SOLIDWORKS's registry.
  3. Start SOLIDWORKS, or restart it if it was running.
  4. The status bar at the bottom of the app should read SOLIDWORKS · connected. In SOLIDWORKS the gull system tab appears in the right-hand panel.

If the add-in is registered but SOLIDWORKS has it switched off, the app says "The add-in is registered but switched off in SOLIDWORKS". Switch it on in SOLIDWORKS under Tools → Add-Ins, ticking gull system in both columns.

After an app update the add-in may be stale. The same screen then offers Register again; the Add-in version row shows which version is installed.

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