What is a .SLDREG file?
SLDREG is a settings backup exported by the SolidWorks Settings Wizard - a Windows registry export of your SolidWorks preferences. Created and opened by SolidWorks.
- Did you know
- A .sldreg is really a plain REGEDIT4 registry file, so Analyser reads the saved SOLIDWORKS release, the settings groups and every backed-up registry key straight from the text.
- The SolidWorks Settings Wizard exports a .sldreg so a user's preferences can be copied to a new PC or rolled out across a whole team.
- SolidWorks, launched in 1995 and now owned by Dassault Systemes, stores its options in the Windows registry, which is what a .sldreg captures.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify CAD files and read header metadata: AutoCAD DWG/DWT and DXF now open as a 2D drawing preview (see Diagrams), SolidWorks .sldreg Settings Wizard backups (release year, settings groups and the saved registry keys) and SOLIDWORKS Visualize .svap appearances and .svpj projects, opened as the ZIP packages they are, Inventor (IPT, IAM), Rhino (3DM) and Grasshopper (GH, GHX), SketchUp (SKP), 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini, ZBrush, Maya, CATIA, Eagle, and KiCad. SolidWorks parts/assemblies/drawings (SLDPRT, SLDASM, SLDDRW) and Autodesk Fusion 360 (F3D, F3Z) have their own viewers - see SolidWorks and Fusion 360 above.
- Depth of analysis
- .SLDREG is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .SLDREG file
- Drag a .SLDREG file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.