Obviously such functionality may not be as useful if you are an organization that has many different templates depending on differing part types, but if you have a template that you predominantly use, this could still be of use.<\/P><\/p>\n
With that said, how to actually enable right-click -> New functionality in Windows Explorer for Solid Edge files?<\/P>
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Once we have located our templates, copy the default template we wish to use for .par files to the “%WINDIR%ShellNew” folder. Note that you can type “%WINDIR%ShellNew” [without the quotes] into the Windows Explorer address bar and it will “automagically” resolve to the full folder name.<\/P>
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Then using your favourite registry editing tool, open the registry and under “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT” locate and expand the .par file extension.<\/P>
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Under “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.parSolidEdge.PartDocumentShellNew” create a new String Value called “FileName”.<\/P>
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Set the value of this new “FileName” setting to match the filename of our template file we copied into the “%WINDIR%ShellNew” folder.<\/SPAN><\/P> We now need to rinse and repeat the above workflow for each of the Solid Edge file types we want to add to our right-click -> New menu.<\/P> Refreshing the Windows Explorer window, Solid Edge Assembly is now available as a right-click -> New selection.<\/P> For sheet metal files we need to create a “FileName” entry under the “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.psmSolidEdge.SheetMetalDocumentShellNew” key and once again set the value to our .psm template copied into “%WINDIR%ShellNew”.<\/P> Finally, for the Draft .dft files we create “FileName” under the “HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.dftSolidEdge.DraftDocumentShellNew” key, with the value set to our .dft template name copied into “%WINDIR%ShellNew”.<\/P> So with a few quick registry edits and some file copying, we now have Windows Explorer right-click -> New functionality for each of the Solid Edge file types.<\/P> If you are an organization that manages the template files on a centrally located network store, this does introduce an issue of the local template file possibly becoming out-of-date with the network stored templates. However, with a little extra work, these concerns could be easily addressed [Task Scheduler anyone?].<\/P><\/p>\n This post walks you through the steps to manually add this functionality to Windows Explorer; with further effort, a sweet little GUI application could be authored that allows you to conveniently do this, possibly even allowing checking and updating of templates from the network [add another potential unfinished project to my list of many P.S. For those less comfortable with editing their registry files, I have attached a sample registry fie for your convenience. Simply download, rename to .reg, then use a text editor to manually change the names of the template files to match your template file names, and still copy your matching template files into the “%WINDIR%ShellNew” folder.<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obviously such functionality may not be as useful if you are an organization that has many different templates depending on differing part types, but if you have a template that you predominantly use…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61226,"featured_media":4677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/screenshot.1439241225.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Now in Windows Explorer when you right-click -> New you will see a selection to create a new Solid Edge Part Document. Note, to see the change we just made, we may have to first open a new Windows Explorer.<\/P>
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