Solid Edge Unable to install Solid Edge Wiring and Harness Design

The user is not able to install the latest version of Solid Edge Wiring and Harness Design because it gives an error that the environment variable path is too long.

The installer is running a validation check to ensure the PATH variable is not longer than 2048 characters.

There are two solutions to prevent the installation from aborting in such cases:

1.  Clean up the PATH variable.

 Over time the PATH variable accumulates paths to programs that may no longer be in use.  Therefore, it is necessary to remove redundant directory parts and/or use short folder names.

In this example all paths related to previous versions of Solid Edge Wiring and Harness Design can be deleted.

2.  The entries in the PATH variable can be embedded if the total character length exceeds 2048 characters.

The following PATH environment variable: PATH=Dir1;Dir2;Dir3;Dir4

 is equivalent to the following:           MyPath=Dir3;Dir4          PATH=Dir1;Dir2;%MyPath%

Note - The environment variable named PATH is limited to 2048 characters, but the variable named MyPath is not. 

You will need to edit the variable PATH and rename using %MyPath%