So the solution would be for me to ask my IT department to take over in order to associate the STEP file with Solidworks?
Personally I always go through solidworks to open the STEP, by doing file/open, because a double click on a STEP directly in the explorer doesn't work all the time ...
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Indeed, when I want to open the file directly from Solidworks, I have no problems, but only when I double-click on the file.
Or, drag the file to Solid which also causes the file to open with Solid. Don't forget to save the new file with Solid and STEP, and let us know if the problem is still there...
Thank you, very cordially
In addition I just re-tested, it launches another solidworks program
I opened it and saved it in STEP and the problem is still there.
In W10 settings, I went to change the default application of the . STEP but I can't.
There is a small problem in the configuration by your IT. Machines using solidworks are strongly recommended in administrator mode.
So you can do what you want, you won't be able to do anything without your IT specialist
I manage the machines of the CAD park of the company where I work and for the W10 one we have installed ida-step, or eDrawing 2018 which are free software
now I also have .jt, NX, sat, dwg .... etc... so of course I have multiple viewers
To reassociate a program, you have to right-click on a file/Open with/Choose the default program, check the box "Always use the selected program to open this type of file"
@stefbeno
If the workstation is not in administrative rights, this manipulation is not possible
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With the IT department, we tried to make changes but:
In the Windows settings we cannot change the default program and to open the file with a right click to open it with SW it does not want.
The solution as mentioned above would be a software like Ida-Step or eDrawing, but these are only file drives?
Otherwise, without the need to install new software,
it is possible to "remove the affection to Adobe", thus to re-make the *.stp files neutral
As far as I can remember, it is impossible to open a STEP with Solidworks by double-clicking on it as on a prt or asm or drw file. You have to open a file and then etc.
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Ah, I think AC COBRA is right. Do the test once to see if you can open your step with solidworks as he said. If it works the problem is solved, because the basic question "In Solidworks, when I save a file in STEP format in my folders it is in PDF type." turned out not to be a problem since the file created was indeed in .step
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So, it doesn't matter what logo the file is, apart from making a file, opening and selecting the file, everything else is useless.
Kind regards
When I double click on the file to open it, it sends it to Acrobat Reader and when I open it from Solidworks with "open" there is no problem.
After my concern is that, I would like his . STEP, or in the right format, because I'm going to need it for the creation of my next tool library, in my future MasterCam CAM software.
Hello
It is indeed not possible to open a step file (and several other formats such as iges, x_t, ...) with solidworks by double-clicking on this file in Windows, the opening mode being different (it happens by a loadfile function of the Api and not opendoc as for native solidworks files).
This does not prevent your file from being in step format but only the association of the default program is wrong in Windows. As already said, you have to be an administrator on your pc to be able to change this association (do not put solidworks since it does not work) with either any step file viewer or your CAM software if it accepts it.
If you really want to open step files with Solidworks by default, you will have to go through an intermediate program of your creation that allows you to launch Solidworks then open your step file with the right function of the Api then associate the step extension to this new program in Windows but there you have to know about programming...
Kind regards
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Since it opens via Solidworks, the file has no problems and will be usable for MasterCam
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Yes the file doesn't have any problems, that's what has been said since the beginning of the discussion, we're just about the definition of a default program in Windows...
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Subject closed, thank you all for your help!