NED Products

NED 2

Mark J. Twery, H. Michael Rauscher, Donald Nute, Scott A. Thomasma, Peter D. Knopp

NED-2 is the successor to NED-1 and is available for download.

A full online help system is installed with NED-2 and is incorporated with the software. In addition, material contained in the help system will soon be distributed in two publications, a printed NED-2 user's manual (in press) with step-by-step instructions on how to use the software (also to be available online in portable document format [PDF]), and a separate NED-2 reference guide (available in PDF format only) with detailed explanations of the models, equations, and rules that underlie the software.

Paper tally sheets are available for NED-2, at the bottom of this page under Documents and Downloads. On some of the tally sheet pages, not all NED-2 variables are shown due to space limitations. Download the Excel version of the tally sheets if you would like to substitute variables or make other modifications. A companion PDF version is available that will handle most inventory situations.

Installation Requirements for NED-2

NED-2 will only install on Windows 2000, service pack 3 operating systems or later, as well as any version of Windows XP.  The installation and setup of NED-2 requires the Microsoft Windows Installer engine, version 3.0 or newer.  You may already have Windows Installer 3.0 if you have Windows XP service pack 2 or newer.  If you aren't sure which version of the windows installer is present on your computer, you may download a small utility program that will verify your current Windows Installer version below.

Installation Instructions

1. Determine whether or not you need to upgrade the Windows Installer on your computer as described in the Installation Requirements above.  

2. Download and run the Windows Installer setup, if necessary, from Microsoft.

3. Download the ned-2 setup below, then run it.  The ned-2 setup is called "ned2install.exe". 

The NED2 installation requires Administrative privileges.

The NED-2 setup will automatically determine whether or not you need to upgrade the Windows Installer on your machine.  If  the NED-2 setup does not find the correct version of the Windows Installer, the setup will stop and inform you that it cannot proceed until you upgrade the Windows Installer on your computer. 

4. Follow the prompts on the ned-2 setup to install ned-2 on your computer. 

Documentation and Downloads

Document	Format
NED-2 - Final version - 2.60.01 Released September 23, 2011 (32 MB)	exe
NED-2 User's Guide	pdf
Release Notes	txt
Verify your version of the windows installer service - Check MSI Version (40 kb)	exe
ned2_tallysheets.xls	xls
ned2_tallysheets.pdf	pdf