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Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Hi All

I am a legitimate owner of V20 but its many years since I stopped my updates. I am trying to get the tutorials within V20 to run again. Heres the situation.....

I launch the tutorial and the model shows up but the instruction window to read and execute the NEXT steps is not popping up

I will call Siemens after the new year to see if they will take a call but I am not sure they will give me answer since its been years since I stopped buying updates.

Anyone know how to get the tutiorial window to open?

Thanks
JaKay

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

Try resetting the Solid Edge user settings using the following method:

For any of the paths shown as an environment variable you can cut and paste this path into the Windows Explorer address bar and it will resolve the %% environment variable automatically for you i.e. %APPDATA%\Unigraphics Solutions -> C:\Users\<user id>\AppData\Roaming\Unigraphics Solutions.

1. If you are running a managed solution e.g. SEEC, Insight, SESP, launch Solid Edge. If not running a managed solution skip to step #4.

2. Open the Cache Assistant.

3. Clear the content of your cache – check in and delete files as necessary.

4. Exit Solid Edge.

5. Run "regedit" [or your registry editing tool of choice].

6. Inside the registry delete the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Unigraphics Solutions" key and everything under it. WARNING: do NOT delete "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Unigraphics Solutions".

7. Exit "regedit".

8. In "Windows Explorer" browse to %APPDATA%. If you cannot see this folder you will need to change your Windows Explorer "Folder Options" to show hidden and system files and folders.

9. Delete the "%APPDATA%\Unigraphics Solutions" folder and everything underneath it.

10. The user's Solid Edge settings have been reset and cleared.

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Hi Dave

I will give that a try tomorrow...just a little nervous about deleting stuff in the registry :)

Thanks

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Dave

No luck .. same result .. the Tutorial pane does not open but as I noted the tutorial model does. I see in the registry it did put back the Solid Edge folder

Thanks anyway

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
I now have lost the path to Standard parts...

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

You reset your Solid Edge preferences so yes you will lose the path to Standard Parts! You will need to reconfigure *all* of your Solid Edge options again after resetting.

Also, IIRC, when you run the tutorials the tutorial window does not open inside Solid Edge but opens outside of Solid Edge in a separate Windows Help screen. Please show a screenshot of your *entire* desktop not just the Solid Edge window.

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
I just re-installed Standard parts from the DVD but it still does not appear in the left pane where it was.

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

There should be no need to reinstall Standard Parts. SImply go into you Solid Edge Options and define the necessary parameters/options used for Standard Parts.

As for the help, the standard Solid Edge help window launches and opens without issue when you select Help?

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Sounds easy but not for me..I select in OPTIONS, file locations,Managed Standard Parts and it keeps saying it needs a managed folder..I have no idea what this program is now looking for....

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

And that would be a correct error message. Unless you are running a managed Solid Edge solution i.e. SEEC or Insight then you would not set this preference or *any* preferences under "Managed".

You will need to open a blank model file, then select Options, then set the Standard Parts SAC file location option.

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Dave

I am running V20 not sure what you are running....

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Well, I guess its not going to work then..I thank you for your effort but I guess I have to re-install the whole thing again

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

Do you have a .par file open before accessing the Options. The SAC file option will only be present when you have a .par file open. If you do not have a .par file open then you cannot set this preference.

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
I have every box from V18 thru V20 and I have no Standard part document...I cant open your link as I have no webkey anymore...

The file location OPTION does not even show a SAC as you noted....

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Yes I opened a .par (new) but no SAC indicated in file locations

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Well as you saw in the screen shot there is no Standard SAC file called out in the file locations window

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Guess I am now in a position to re-install everything.....

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
The trick was not lauching the .par but launching .asm since the parts library is not applicable at the part level...Standard parts now back...

Back to the tutorial...the files are there in the tutorial folder (.chm)...I can launch them by double clicking and apparenty needs IE (they are compiled html files) to read them but for some reason IE not getting launched to read these files for the tutorial pane. IE is the default browser.

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
Dave

Thanks for that input....if only I understood that stuff in the kb. It seems to be based on web based issues and I wouldn't think Solid Edge, now I can be way off here, is only using IE as a viewer/GUI and all these path issues seem odd to be the issue. I don't know the connection how IE gets launched (neither did the folks at Siemens tech support) but I'd assume via the .chm extension. Maybe I need to look at what is launched vs the extension setup...maybe? I'll check in the morning.

RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

What operating system are you using?

Trying to get the V19 tutorials to run on Windows 7 64bit machines (not supported) was tricky.

We ended up having to replace a dll - HHActiveX.dll. This is the instructions:

******************************************************************************
We discovered one minor, but important, addendum to the procedure below to get the SolidEdge tutorials working:
When you open up the command prompt window you need to do this as administrator by typing “cmd” in the start box, but don’t hit enter. Right-click on the “cmd” that will appear under programs and select “Run as administrator”.
When you now do the regsvr32 command it will actually work.

• Copy this file somewhere onto your PC, for example in the folder C:\HHactiveX\64bit
• Open a command window by typing cmd in the start
• Unregister the existing hhactivex.dll (not sure if this is needed) by regsvr32 –u hhactivex.dll
• Register the 64 bit version by: regsvr32 c:\hhactiveX\64bit\hhactivex.dll
******************************************************************************

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RE: Tutorial V20 Solid Edge not running

(OP)
I am running XP. The tutorial files (.chm) launch when double clicked in the folder but they fail to launch .. That's the total issue.

I will await your response

Thanks

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