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Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

(OP)
Well thanks to everyone that provided me the answer to running two NX versions at the same time. It worked and I have set all my customer defaults and set up my Toolbar Menu Layouts in the newly loaded NX5.

What I would like to do now is have a new user be able to use my "Saved" Toolbar Menu Layouts. I was able to load my Customer Defaults on their PC, but I cannot figure out how to transfer and load the Toolbar Menus. The ability to do this would sure ease their efforts trying to setup their menus.

Gary Ashby
Designer

RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

You could give them your USER.MTX file.

It should be located in the folder ... C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\Local Settings\Application Data\unigraphics solutions\NX5

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RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

(OP)
Thanks phillpd that worked. You just saved the new user a lot of time by not having to wade thru their available choices. Now they have a baseline to go forward from.

Gary Ashby
Designer

RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

I would also recommend that each user, before he starts to edit his local environment, create his own personal Role so that if he decides that he wants to go back to the original (the set-up you loaded for him) he can do it with one push of the button.  Also after he makes the changes that he likes, creating or updating a Role is a way of protecting those changes for the future as well and it also provide a mechanism where he could then share his setting with others but just providing them with a copy of his Role file, which is another .mtx stared in the Roles folder found at the same location that you found your 'user.mtx' file.

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/

RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

What do you mean Role?  Is that in NX3 or is that in a later version?

RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

Roles were first introduced in NX4.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

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RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

In NX-3 it is an MTX file called user.mtx that gets saved in a local directory. You can save that file and move it from tube to tube without any problems.

C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX

In NX-4+ there is still a file in a comparable directory, but using roles you can save your .mtx file to a name and location of you choice. There is also the handy ability to load different versions of your menu settings st any time during a session.

Regards

Hudson

RE: Can One Transfer Their Saved Toolbar Layouts To A New User?

That's pretty spiffy.  I can't wait to upgrade!

Al

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