Solid Edge Are Maintenance Packs available for Technical Publications for Solid Edge?

In Support Center looking for downloads for Technical Publications, one can see that there are two downloads available:

Is the Solid_Edge_TechPublications_2021_007.exe a Maintenance Pack for Technical Publications that can be installed on top of an existing one, or is it a complete new version ?

Solution

One can see that the file sizes appear very similar and that implies that the second download is a complete version and not a Maintenance Pack, such as the ones that exist for Solid Edge.

When trying to install Solid_Edge_TechPublications_2021_007.exe on top of Solid_Edge_TechPublications_2021.exe - as one would do for a Solid Edge Maintenance Pack - there appears the following message:

This shows, that both downloads in Support Center are in fact complete independent versions of Technical Publications.

Therefore, if a customer needs to upgrade to a newer version, they have to uninstall the existing version first.

 

Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: INTL64
OS: windows
OS Version: n/a
Product: SOLID_EDGE
Application: TECH_PUB
Version: V221.0
Function: 3D_PUBLISHING

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