Undocumented and missing system options
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 9:02 am
I am approaching our company update and lik every year I am trying to clean up our settings. Once and for all.
I use a modified sldreg to overwrite in the workstation registry. More than one to be honest.
I have run in some undocumented keys like the ability to block the editing of model dimension from drawings.
https://www.goengineer.com/blog/solidwo ... odel-items
But I have found some deprecated key that our settings are dragging along since years and years ago like
‘No Preview during open (faster)’ option in ‘System Options’ > ‘Performance’
which is officially deprecated as it was introduced during the single core CPU era and it would slow down performance with modern machines.
I had also some bad experience with the system options intrface, like looking for an entry and it returns no results because the entry is "in the page,but hidden" in the current SW mode. I think is what happens to DXF export settings if you are not opening system options from the drawing enviroinment.
Question 1: where I can find ALL the settings supported by solidworks?
Or at least force them to show therir current setting inside the UI...
Cad admin dashboard seems to know what setting is not supported while monitoring the workstations registry, but it does not say WHAT setting is not recognized only their count, So I know I have at least a couple of faulty settings, but not where they are...and there are hundreds on registry lines to check.
The only thing close seems to be in the API section, but a bit unpractical
https://help.solidworks.com/2022/engli ... Redirect=1
Question 2: or better a general advice on setting up SW.
But again it does not work on all settings inside System options
I looked at admin image .sldsettings, but I think I gave up as IIRC that file would be binary format and not a more confortable registry format. (at least for me I find it quicker to install via batch file)
Also it does not handle ALL SW options like converter settings and other stuff.
I have also some reason to not trust the export settings utility as it exports a lot of garbage as well, and with syntax errors for a REG4 format...
I use a modified sldreg to overwrite in the workstation registry. More than one to be honest.
I have run in some undocumented keys like the ability to block the editing of model dimension from drawings.
https://www.goengineer.com/blog/solidwo ... odel-items
But I have found some deprecated key that our settings are dragging along since years and years ago like
‘No Preview during open (faster)’ option in ‘System Options’ > ‘Performance’
which is officially deprecated as it was introduced during the single core CPU era and it would slow down performance with modern machines.
I had also some bad experience with the system options intrface, like looking for an entry and it returns no results because the entry is "in the page,but hidden" in the current SW mode. I think is what happens to DXF export settings if you are not opening system options from the drawing enviroinment.
Question 1: where I can find ALL the settings supported by solidworks?
Or at least force them to show therir current setting inside the UI...
Cad admin dashboard seems to know what setting is not supported while monitoring the workstations registry, but it does not say WHAT setting is not recognized only their count, So I know I have at least a couple of faulty settings, but not where they are...and there are hundreds on registry lines to check.
The only thing close seems to be in the API section, but a bit unpractical
https://help.solidworks.com/2022/engli ... Redirect=1
Question 2: or better a general advice on setting up SW.
The KB says that it is not possibile to customize your default settings when a reset is triggered, but they explain in another place (and I know because I "reverse engineered" that reset) that those settings are taken from the HKLM keys that HKCU mirrors, so I basically overwritten the main general settings and even if my users trigger the reset he ends up with MOST of the settings set to our company default and not some SW random one."SOLIDWORKS® has an option to reset the system options to default settings. Is it possible to customize this option to use custom settings other than factory default settings?
https://kb.dsxclient.3ds.com/mashup-ui/ ... 000114399e"
But again it does not work on all settings inside System options
I looked at admin image .sldsettings, but I think I gave up as IIRC that file would be binary format and not a more confortable registry format. (at least for me I find it quicker to install via batch file)
Also it does not handle ALL SW options like converter settings and other stuff.
I have also some reason to not trust the export settings utility as it exports a lot of garbage as well, and with syntax errors for a REG4 format...