Authorized users may download the Structural Material Manager demo from the E.J.E. Industries, Inc. Web site. If you are authorized to download it, you would have been supplied with a password by E.J.E. Industries, Inc. via e-mail.
Before beginning, let's get an overview of the procedures that will be followed. You'll be using your Internet browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, etc.) to download a new Structural Material Manager system from our Web site. The new system is stored in the form of a program named Demo.Exe. You'll simply use your browser to save this Demo.Exe program to some location on your hard drive. Later, you'll run Demo.Exe, and it will allow you to install Structural Material Manager.
It is important to note that the PC on which you run Structural Material Manager and that on which you access the Internet need not be the same. You can download Demo.Exe on a PC that has Internet access, copy it to some sort of high-capacity media (perhaps save it to a Zip Disk or “burn” it to a CD), and later bring the Zip Disk, CD, etc. to the PC on which you want to install the Structural Material Manager demo.
Now that the overview has hopefully familiarized you with the basic strategy, follow these steps:
1) Demo recipients who already have some version of the Structural Material Manager demo installed and wish to upgrade it do not need to remove the current demo before loading the new one. All jobs you currently have in the previous demo will still be accessible after installing the new one. If you value the jobs that were typed into the previous demo, you should back them up as per Section 13-7 of the Structural Material Manager User's Guide. This will protect you in the event of difficulty in loading the new system.
2) You can download the Demo.Exe file either from our FTP (File Transfer Protocol) server or our HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) server. If your particular system has trouble obtaining the file from one server, simply try the other. Click on the link of your choice below:
3) Clicking one of the above links should open the "Save As" dialog for the Demo.Exe file.
It is possible that rather than opening the Save As dialog, your browser instead asked whether you want to run Demo or save it to disk. If this sort of question appears, choose to save the file to disk. Upon choosing this option, the desired Save As dialog should appear.
4) We'll assume that you now have the Save As dialog open. Before actually saving the file, pay careful attention to the following:
After noting the above items, and changing them if desired, click or press whatever button (usually "Save") your browser requires to begin saving the file.
5) Once the download is finished, close the Save As dialog (if it did not close automatically), and exit the browser. The Internet phase of the process is now done.
6) Most users probably downloaded Demo.Exe to the hard drive of the same machine on which they will install Structural Material Manager; this is the simplest case, and you may simply proceed to the next step if this indeed describes your situation. If necessary, however, computer-literate users can copy Demo.Exe from the hard drive to a Zip Disk, CD, or other high-capacity media (1.44 MB diskettes do not have sufficient capacity) which can later be brought to another PC. No specific directions will be presented here on how to do this since the required procedures vary greatly among different hardware and software combinations. Copy Demo.Exe to such a disk at this time if necessary (perhaps because you don’t have Internet access at the machine on which Structural Material Manager is to be installed).
7) At the Windows desktop, click the Start button, and select the Run item in the menu that appears. Click the Browse button, and navigate through the drive structure until you find the folder in which Demo.Exe was saved. Click on the downloaded file, Demo.Exe or whatever name your browser may have substituted, in order for it to execute.
8) If an error message appears upon executing Demo.Exe, then the downloaded file is probably corrupt. Another indication of a bad download is a message such as "please insert last disk of set." If you get an error message or are prompted for the last disk of the set, simply download the file again. Note that it makes sense to switch to a different E.J.E. Industries server if you are experiencing problems. For instance, if a download from our FTP server did not work, try clicking on the link to the HTTP server the next time.
9) You'll now be prompted for a password. As you type the password, keep in mind that it is case sensitive: "A" is different from "a". Click the Ok button once the password has been entered.
10) As long as you properly entered the password, the Structural Material Manager demo’s setup utility will automatically appear.
Structural Material Manager demo CDs supplied by E.J.E. Industries, Inc. contain a setup program for the Adobe Acrobat Reader software; Acrobat Reader serves as a viewer for the system’s on-line documentation. Acrobat Reader is not present in the Internet-supplied Demo.Exe archive…the resulting file would just be too large for many users to download! If you need this additional component, simply download it separately by visiting our Software Downloads page (click the link below).
Structural Material Manager Software Downloads page
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