Since the covid bug has forced us to work from home, we have found that adding the CAD files from our previous tool (Solid Edge) to our vault makes for a much more efficient experience with regard to opening/copying/moving files than from accessing them from their non-PDM network drive.
I created an additional file list column set specifically for Solid Edge files, but I'm wondering if there is a way to either switch between column sets depending if you are looking at solidworks or solid edge files, or perhaps if there is a way to assign column sets on a per folder basis.
Solidworks 2018 sp5
No, cannot do that. Today all you can do is assign column sets to users/groups. I suggest that you sign up for 2021 beta program. We are under NDA, so cannot talk about it in public. Improvements are being made, but not exactly what you want.