Modal Install
Installation guide
Thank you for purchasing Modal software.
Modal is a dedicated tool for processing a comprehensive modal analysis.
Some tools are available to create your modal project from the beginning to the end.
Start with the construction of the geometry and the acquisition of data in an optimized window.
After these first steps, continue naturally by displaying very quickly Operating Deflection Shapes. Finally, with the powerful algorithms proposed, modal parameters: frequencies, damping, mode shapes can be easily obtained from either modal data or operating data.
This "INSTALLATION GUIDE" will help you to install and run the Modal software.
For getting detailed information on the software, you can go and visit the Online Help embedded within the software. For beginning to use your new modal software, you can follow the instructions in the ’Getting Started’ document installed simultaneous to the software.
Download
Download Last Version of Modal V5.7 from may 2020.
First checking
Required Configuration
Recommended PC configuration:
Equipment required for the installation:
USB drive containing the Modal software installation setup "ModalSetup.msi"
Installation
Installation of the Modal Software
Run " ModalSetup.msi" program, and the following window is displayed:
Click on "Next", and the following window is displayed:
Read the terms in the license agreement and check “I accept the terms in the License Agreement” if you agree. Click on “Next”, the following window is displayed:
Select the installation directory. By default, Modal is installed in C:\OROS\Programs\Modal\.
Click on "Next", the following window is displayed:
Click on "Install", the software installation starts, and the following window is displayed:
Let the setup wizard proceed to the full installation. Do not abort the installation process. When it is done, the following window is automatically displayed:
Click on “Finish” to exit the Setup Wizard, and the Modal software is successfully installed.
NOTE: To launch the software correctly, please don’t forget to plug the dongle if your license is dongle locked, or connect the PC to the analyzer if your license is instrument locked.
Upgrade procedure
Upgrade order
If you order one of upgrades or options described above, a procedure should be followed:
Indeed, the number of the dongle is necessary to upgrade it.
You could find the number of your dongle directly written on it.
Please communicate it to OROS with your order simultaneously.
Software upgrade
- Uninstall the previous version of Modal installed on the PC:
Insert the CD in the appropriate driver and wait for the Autorun program (or run the "setup.exe" program from the CD).
The following window is displayed:
Click on Remove.
The following window is displayed:
Click on remove.
The following window is displayed.
Wait during this window is displayed.
Click on finish.
Start the installation of the new version
Please follow the procedure described from page 8 to page 13.