MULTIPLE WINDOWS
MULTIPLE WINDOWS
(OP)
People,
NX4 - ? - can someone tell me whether it is possible to have a specification open and also the master Model on the screen concurrently in a separate window,
regards ..... gary
NX4 - ? - can someone tell me whether it is possible to have a specification open and also the master Model on the screen concurrently in a separate window,
regards ..... gary





RE: MULTIPLE WINDOWS
RE: MULTIPLE WINDOWS
For example, if I had three sessions open on a single desktop and I was running Modeling in two of them and Drafting in the third, the licenses checked-out would be:
Gateway = 1
Modeling = 1
Drafting = 1
And before anyone asks, this would still be the case even if you were running on a workstation with dual or even a quad processor. We don't go by 'cores', but by the fact that only one user is actually logged in, even if he decides to run two or more sessions, he's still only a SINGLE user and that is what we have licensed, a USER using a copy of the software.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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UGS NX Product Line
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Matt.
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In other words, it will take 2 licenses, one per each of your Windows LOGINS.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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In the case of the 'Reopen Selected Parts...' you will get a list of all of the currently out-of-date parts, based on the fact that the file opened is older than the version currently saved on the disk, open in your session,. In that case all you have to do is select the component that you wish to update and hit OK.
And in the case of the 'Reopen All Modified Parts' option, it's even simplier as all you have to do is select the option and acknowledge that you actually wish to replace ALL of the modified components and it's done, period.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
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File-Close-Reopen Selected Parts doesn't work when you are running NX4.0.4.2 and running 2005 SR1 Teamcenter/NX Manager. The Reopen modified parts works though.
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John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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15 Feb 08 12:31
Yes, I should have caveated my reply that the suggestions I had made were for Naive Mode users only. TeamCenter users may have different and additional options avialble to them.
John,
Please tell me that you dropped a letter and meant to say "Native Mode"! <GRIN>
Chris Cooper
Senior CAD Specialist
Cleveland Golf / Never Compromise
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That's what the TeamCenter crowd sometimes call it
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
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As you say you can have as many sessions of NX running as you like on a single workstation including different versions, and it only checks out one license. I have needed to do this in the past to have a model open in two sessions in order to pick apart how it was built so I can rebuild a better version after deleting a root feature. By opening the native part from disk and modifying it in a session without necessarily saving anything I can then open a second copy based on the original disk image and use it to interrogate the original feature tree.
In teamcenter however you can have two teamcenter logins running on the one tube, but they seem to be locked to only one NX session. In addition the owner of that session is the first login only. All this is quite logical, but I can't for the life of me manage to do the same trick in teamcenter as I do in native when picking apart a model in two NX sessions.
No matter what your system is whether in teamcenter or native you can't have open two copies of the same file, or any two files called the same thing, (from different directories for example), in the one NX session. It just wouldn't make sense to do that. As I said you can have two sessions open in native and work in alternate parallel sessions as it were. Teamcenter does not seem to be able to to the same.
What I have to do in teamcenter is export the model to native and open it in a second session from there. It seems to be either that or save it under a different name, which I don't favor because every extra item you add in teamcenter has to be managed and incurs some cost to do so.
Now I don't have much of a question, just noticed that the teamcenter guys are calling native "Naive" and kind of wanted to know if there was any way to match the level of sophistication that I'm able to manage in native.
In case anyone is wondering, we really do need to do this from time to time. Sometimes we find that the best way forward is to rebuild part of the model. Some of those times things already got tooled up, and worse we pay the toolmaker for additional changes, so we need to keep the majority exactly the same. To keep it the same the only way to do that is by re-applying variable radius blends with setback and multiple edge sets, using exactly the same parameters. These blends got deleted because we trashed the root feature to fix a problem that probably shouldn't have been there in the first place. Hence it's real handy to flick back and forth between session so I can fix what radii were applied where in these variable blends I'm trying to rebuild.
Best Regards
Hudson
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I'm not a TeamCenter person and I don't actually run NX under TeamCenter, primarily because I have so many different versions of UG/NX installed at any one time and since I'm always installing the latest phases during Beta testing and before a release is finalized, again to test and verify changes and updates, it has never been efficient to run in anything but 'naive' mode.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/