1. Open the installer of ideaMaker and select your language preference.
Note: If your computer has installed ideaMaker, you need to click Yes to uninstall it as Figure 1.
Before installing, you also need to close ideaMaker which is running in background. If not, ideaMaker will pop-up installation error as Figure 2, you need to close ideaMaker, and then re-install it. The ideaMaker version 3.3 or later will show the reason for installation error.
Figure 1: Uninstall the previous ideaMaker version.
Figure 2: Close the ideaMaker running in background.
Click Next to move on to the next menu. If you are using an older version of ideaMaker or reinstalling ideaMaker, you will need to close all open processes of ideaMaker, so the installation can be completed without error. Please check your task manager to make sure that there is no ideaMaker processing before installation.
Figure 3: Select a language for installing ideaMaker.
Figure 4: License Agreement.
2. Select a path to install ideaMaker and then click Next to move on to the next menu.
Figure 5: Select a path to install your ideaMaker.
3. Follow the instruction and click Install.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable is auto checked by the installation software. If you have installed that in your computer before, you don’t need to check it again.
Figure 6: Check Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (if it is not already installed).
4. After the installation is completed, click Next.
Figure 7: Press "Next" to complete the installation.
5. Click Finish and start your slicing your first model.
Figure 8: Complete the installation.
6. Select different themes when open ideaMaker for the first time after the installation is complete.
Figure 9: Select themes.
Note: You can change the themes in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Color Theme.
The following are common installation errors for your reference:
1. The installation package was not fully downloaded. You can try to re-download the installation packaging.
Figure 10: The installation package was not fully downloaded.
2.Error opening file for writing, if you encounter this error during installation, try closing the ideaMaker running in background via task manager, then click Retry to install again.
Figure 11: Close the ideaMaker running in background.
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