# Solid Edge 2026 Community/Student Editions are available for download! **URL:** \ **Category:** Solid Edge\ **Created:** [December 16, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085 "2025-12-16T22:50:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/kennyg/32/5121_2.png) [@KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/KennyG)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/1 "2025-12-16T22:50:49Z")
[Designcenter Solid Edge Community Edition | Siemens Software](https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/download-solid-edge-community-edition/) [Solid Edge Student Edition | Siemens Software](https://resources.sw.siemens.com/en-US/download-solid-edge-student-edition/?bc=eyJwYWdlIjoiM3E0dlFjSHQwU3hCemdBOVM5ZENuZyIsInNpdGUiOiJkaXN3IiwibG9jYWxlIjoiZW4tVVMifQ==&lnc=eyJzbHVnIjoiYWNhZGVtaWMtbG9jYWwtbmF2aWdhdGlvbiIsInRpdGxlIjp7InRpdGxlIjoiQWNhZGVtaWMgcHJvZ3JhbSIsImNhdGVnb3J5IjoiU2FtZSBTaXRlIiwidXJsIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3cuc2llbWVucy5jb20vZW4tVVMvYWNhZGVtaWMvIiwiY29udGV4dCI6ZmFsc2V9LCJsb2NhbGUiOiJlbi1VUyJ9) ---
**Author:** ![pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/pedja/32/151_2.png) [@pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/pedja)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/2 "2025-12-17T14:43:53Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/kennyg/32/5121_2.png) [@KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/KennyG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2025, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/3 "2025-12-17T16:25:57Z")
Not sure why KeyShot Studio isn’t working. Definitely should not require Admin rights to run. ---
**Author:** ![pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/pedja/32/151_2.png) [@pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/pedja)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/4 "2025-12-18T12:32:03Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/kennyg/32/5121_2.png) [@KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/KennyG)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/5 "2025-12-18T17:13:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/kennyg/32/5121_2.png) [@KennyG](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/KennyG)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/6 "2025-12-18T17:14:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/pedja/32/151_2.png) [@pedja](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/pedja)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2025, 12:35pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/solid-edge-2026-community-student-editions-are-available-for-download/6085/7 "2025-12-20T12:35:27Z")
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.