Solid Edge How to set download Part Copies as default for assemblies in SEEC

In this scenario, the user is working in a managed SEEC (Solid Edge Embedded Client) environment.  They are working with assemblies that have components containing Part Copies.  As they want to also download the Part Copies to the cache they define "Download Linked Documents" in the "Open" option.

This has to be actively toggled on every time an assembly is opened.  The user would like to know if it is possible to set this as default.

"Download Linked Documents" was introduced as a UI feature in Solid Edge 2020.  It was designed to be explicit - that is, to be toggled either ON/OFF - rather than set as default, in order to avoid performance degradation.

Similarly, before Solid Edge 2020 the default used to be not to load Part Copies to the cache.  For assemblies this was controlled by the following Registry setting:

SEEC_Assembly_EnableExpandGRM

This is a different code path to "Download Linked Documents" but it should still be supported.  The default setting would be '1'.  By changing this to '0' Part Copies will also be downloaded to the cache when an assembly is opened from Teamcenter to Solid Edge.

Please bear in mind that there may be a performance hit as a result.