customer defaults
customer defaults
(OP)
Hi,
I found in help, that when you change customer defaults, there should be 3levels. user, group, site. These should all be specified in a file. I found out, that in the nx4_user.dpv file, there are only settings, that are different. I tried to find the nx4_site.dpv file which I presume there should be all the settings. The thing is, that I cant find that file anywhere. In case, that there is no file, how can you create a new default file?
Thanks in advance
Vit
I found in help, that when you change customer defaults, there should be 3levels. user, group, site. These should all be specified in a file. I found out, that in the nx4_user.dpv file, there are only settings, that are different. I tried to find the nx4_site.dpv file which I presume there should be all the settings. The thing is, that I cant find that file anywhere. In case, that there is no file, how can you create a new default file?
Thanks in advance
Vit





RE: customer defaults
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Also follow up on your other post, I made a similar comment in response to that thread.
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There is one set of customer defaults, but as I understand it you can adopt strategies to have different settings on a customer or project basis, to control any of the defaults but most usually things like drawing formats, part templates and reference sets. That has always been where ugii_env.dat comes in, but you can also set the variables in a batch file, as the top post will describe. You'll also note that there are a great many versions of what people like to do. I can only counsel that you should try and keep it simple, many of the possible methods will work, but they seem almost intentionally complex beyond what is really necessary.
Then you could identify a class of things that users would have changed to suit their personal preferences, but the intent seems to be that most of that can be customized using roles by the user on the fly.
Now if there's just one thing you want to customize then ask and if we can identify a good way to do it then of course we will try.
If you're using Teamcenter then certain aspects get a little more complex, so don't forget to mention that along with your version of NX.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: customer defaults
I have checked the threads and you can find quite a lot of important information. The problem what I have is, that most of it is about ug env dat files, but not about the customer defaults files. I would like to know, how the file should be created ( for example for the site or group) and who can edit it. I created the nx4_group.dpv file, set the environment variable pointing to that file, but when I start UG, it only uses customer defaults from nx4_user.dpv...and the only level shown is USER. I have tried to log on as administrator to see, if the level GROUP will appear, but nothing happend. I also tried to set different things in the Group one to USER, but it always uses the USER settings.
Thanks for the response.
Vit
RE: customer defaults
We run FiberSim along with NX, and it hijacks some of those variables.
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
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Thanks
V.
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Smitty
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this is slightly confusing, because in the help, there is written to set the environment variable as UGII_GROUP_DIR...i tried that and it didnt work. The other thing is, that even when I was logged in as administrator, I couldnt change the file, which could be because it simply didnt take the values from the file. I checked it by exporting the variables into excel and for group variables, there was no setting. Which mean, that they werent loaded. You mentioned to put them into startup directory...what do you mean by it? I thought, that you should put it wherever you like and then point the environment variable to it.
RE: customer defaults
The UGII_GROUP_DIR only sets the directory, the UGII_LOCAL_GROUP_DEFAULTS points to the file itself. The startup directory is a directory you create to keep custom toolbars and user files in. If you want more info on this check my profile and email me.
Smitty
www.changes-consulting.com
RE: customer defaults
set UGII_GROUP_DIR=X:\companyShare\
set UGII_SITE_DIR=X:\companyShare\
Where companyShare directory has a startup folder.
Example:
X:\companyShare\
-startup
When these variables are set the Site and Group customer defaults will be available. The site and group .dpv and .xsl files will be created in the startup folder by NX. Only the UGII_LOCAL_USER_DEFAULTS needs to point directly to a file, the other variables point to a folder.
Set the variables in the eng_env.dat file and set the location of the eng_env.dat file by setting the UGII_ENV_FILE variable, in a system environment variable or startup script.
Additional variable to set where user profiles should be stored and loaded from.
set UGII_USER_PROFILE_DIR=X:\user.mtx
-Dave Tolsma
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/