Designcenter Solid Edge Community Edition | Siemens Software
Solid Edge Student Edition | Siemens Software
2 Likes
Very nice 
I updated from SE 2024 CE, no issues so far with Solid Edge itself.
Keyshot Studio, OTOH, seems to be a bit broken.
Runs as admin just fine, but it won’t start as a regular user, requires license for that.
That’s probably why I can’t start Keyshot Render from SE.
Interestingly enough, the same thing happened when I had to re-install SE 2024, after SE 2025
failed to start.
Probably some registry entries remnant or something.
It’s not a big deal, I don’t use Keyshot anyway
Not sure why KeyShot Studio isn’t working. Definitely should not require Admin rights to run.
It’s a mystery
User environment variable ‘KEYSHOT_EXTERNAL_LICENSE_FOLDER’
is pointing to SE2026/Program, keyshot4.lic is there, ‘set’ in command prompt
lists it, but still no dice.
Same env variable for system/admin works fine, apparently
Keyshot, being CPU renderer(AFAIK), doesn’t really work well on this 2-core machine, so I
removed it.
What version of KS did you install? Had a user yesterday with a Pro license that would not start for him using the latest service pack. Had to revert back to the one I had previously downloaded.
This version had the problem: 2025.3_14.2.2.1 and I reverted back to 2025.1_14.0.0.176 which worked fine.
I checked the KS install from SE 2026 CE prerequisites folder, and it’s
2025.1_14.0.1.2, FWIW.
I am not sure how it works with KS and SE Community Edition, TBH,
with regards to updating Keyshot from version that is installed as part of SE install.