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Solid Edge does not associate itself with DWG files or any other neutral file format by default. You can however create this association yourself by following the steps below. In Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer), click on the Folder Options command found under the "Tools" menu. In the Folder Options form, click on the File Types tab. Depending on whether another product is installed that associates itself with DWG files (like AutoCAD) or not, you may or may not already have an entry in the "Extensions" column for "DWG". If you do, click on the entry. If you do not, click on the "New" button and type in "DWG" in the File Extension field. On the FileTypes tab with DWG highlighted, select the Advanced button. If no Open entry exists select New... If it does exist, highlight it and select Edit... In the resulting form, make sure the Action field states "Open" and the Application used to perform action: field sta...

I have finally gotten Solid Edge V20 and the Viewer deployed through my organization on Sept. 27th. We deploy SE to over 100 users and the Viewer to over 400 users across about 10 geographic locations in one night over a couple hours. All went well considering this was the first deployment since the new Packaging Specialist started, and it was done on a brand new version of the deployment system we use. We use Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) which was just upgraded from SMS 2003. http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/configmgr/default.mspx . It allows inventorying PC's throughout the org, as well as pushing software to the PC's. To be able to push the software, you must use the MSI supplied by Solid Edge and repackage it as an EXE. Since the MSI is used, you must also install .NET and ISSCRIPT separately (which can also be added to the EXE package). We found that the ISSCRIPT.MSI must be modified to work with SCCM due to the fact that it insta...

I have been trying to deploy Solid Edge V19 for approximately 6 months in our organization. Due to personnel changes, the method of deployment, and the high number of seats needing to be deployed, I'm still waiting. I have now made the decision to go straight to V20 given it's stability and timing of release. The new person in charge of application deployment has figured out how to deploy Solid Edge through our deployment system, so aside from some volume testing, we are just waiting on released code (I'm still testing V20). Now I'm going to be on the hook for training our users on 2 versions instead of 1. I better get started on pulling together some documentation :)