Autodesk® HSMWorks™ 2026

Build 20.0.0.44350 / 9 April 2025
Autodesk, Inc.

This document covers the following HSMWorks products:

WHAT’S NEW

General

Autodesk HSMWorks 2026 supports Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit and Windows 11 64-bit.
HSMWorks 2026 is compatible with the 2023, 2024, and 2025 versions of SOLIDWORKS.

New installation

SOLIDWORKS must be installed prior to installing HSMWorks
Before you install HSMWorks 2026, please make sure to run Windows Update, install all Windows Updates that are pending on your machine, and reboot:
- For Windows 10: Windows Update is available in the Update and Security section of Windows Settings, which is available from the Windows menu.
It is sometimes necessary to perform a Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.
Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install HSMWorks 2026 (approx. 2 GB).
Before installing HSMWorks 2026, please uninstall all prior Autodesk beta products.
Download HSMWorks 2026 from the Autodesk Account Portal or from your Autodesk Desktop Application.
Follow the instructions to download and launch the installer. Temporary extraction is to your temp folder. Operating system errors regarding very long path names can occur if the temporary location is nested too many levels deep.
If the installer does not launch, browse to the folder where the files were extracted, and double-click setup.exe.

Updating an existing installation

When a new update is available, an update notification will appear in the Autodesk Desktop App.
Please download and install the update package.
We recommend that you uninstall HSMWorks 2025 before installing HSMWorks 2026. You can uninstall the relevant release using the Autodesk Uninstall Tool or using "Add or remove programs" in Windows Settings. If you choose not to do that, you may need to be aware that:
- HSMWorks 2026 will now be registered with SolidWorks instead of HSMWorks 2025.
- If you uninstall HSMWorks 2025 at a later time, you may lose the registration of HSMWorks 2026 with SolidWorks. The registration between the two products can be restored using the following command, which requires admin privileges to run: regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\HSMWorks 2026\hsmsw.dll"
Before installing any updates after the annual release (e.g. HSMWorks 2026.x) there is no need to uninstall the previous HSMWorks release.