About starting Schematic Dataset Editor

There are two ways to start Schematic Dataset Editor: either from the Catalog window, by clicking the Edit menu that is displayed when you right-click a schematic dataset, or by launching the SchematicDatasetEditor.exe program installed in your <Drive:>\Program Files\ArcGIS\Desktop<VersionNumber>\Bin folder.

Caution:

Schematic datasets based on the ArcGIS Schematics extension versions prior to 10 can be opened using the Schematic Dataset Editor, but they open in read-only form and you cannot make changes to them. Some items, such as properties, behaviors, and environment settings, were specific to prior versions and not applicable in this version; these items are not displayed. If you need to make changes to a schematic dataset based on a Schematics version prior to 10, you must either edit it with a prior version of the software or use the Migrate to the current Schematics version command to migrate the schematic dataset and convert it into this new Schematics version.

Learn more about migrating a pre-10 schematic dataset