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Vacworks II The Vacworks II CD contains: • Link to the Graham Web site • Technical Library • Vacworks II Selection Software

Technical Library: The Technical Library is a collection of informative technical articles authored by Graham engineers and published in various engineering periodicals. The articles cover a variety of vacuum and heat transfer topics. Before you can access the technical library, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. To install Adobe Acrobat Reader: Click on the START button and select RUN. Then choose BROWSE. Then select the file called “ar405eng.exe” located on the CD under the Acrobat directory. Then select RUN and follow the installation instructions. To use the Technical Library, run Adobe Acrobat Reader and open the file called “_Contents.PDF” located on the CD under the directory “TechArts”. This is the table of contents for all the articles in the library. The articles are accessed by clicking on the article title.

Vacworks II Selection Software: Vacworks II is the second generation of our popular Vacworks program. This software package includes a variety of useful calculations ranging from vacuum system design to a handy calculator type program. Before installing Vacworks II, we recommend that your system is at least a Pentium 166Mhz system running a 32-bit Windows operating system. Vacworks II has been tested on systems running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 4.0), and Windows 2000.

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Vacworks II Installation If you are a new Vacworks user, skip to “To install Vacworks II”, otherwise please note: • The default installation location for Vacworks (original and Vacworks II) is C:\Graham\Vacworks. • Since Vacworks II includes all the features of the original Vacworks and since Vacworks II will read the input data files created using the original version of Vacworks, it is highly recommended that the original Vacworks be uninstalled before installing Vacworks II. “Installing over an existing installation without first removing it may damage the installation or cause future attempts to remove the installation to fail.” • If you wish to keep the original Vacworks and install Vacworks II, you must choose a different directory than the default during the installation, such as C:\Graham\VacworksII. To uninstall the original version of Vacworks: At the windows screen: a) Double click on “My Computer”. Then double click on “Control Panel”. b) Double click on “Add/Remove Programs”. Single click on “Vacworks”. Single click on “Remove”. Single click on “OK”. c) To close the Control Panel box, click on the x in the upper, right-hand corner. To install Vacworks II Vacworks II is installed by running a program called setup.exe located on the CD under the directory “Vacworks”. The step by step installation procedure is as follows. At the windows screen: a) Make sure that the Vacworks CD is inserted and that no diskette is inserted. b) Double click on “My Computer”. Then double click on “Control Panel”. c) Double click on “Add/Remove Programs”. d) Single click on “Install”. Single click on “Next”. Single click on “Browse”. e) Select the “setup.exe” program located on the CD under the directory “Vacworks”. f) Click finish. g) Follow the instructions through the installation process1 . h) To close the Control Panel box, click on the x in the upper, right-hand corner. To run Vacworks II, click: Start, then click programs, and then click Vacworks. 1

If you are keeping the original Vacworks, be sure to enter a different installation location (see above).

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