NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
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Note that NX 6 is available for download from the GTAC Product Download site. Note that after downloading, you will need to contact your CSR to get an up-to-date license file for NX6, but it available for download today and we've already started to get comments that people are downloading it and they are getting the updated license files, so the system works.
BTW, even if you don't actually complete the installation, once you have the files you can open the DVD installer and there will be options there where you can open such documents as the install guide, the release notes and perhaps of more interest, the 'What's New' guide for NX 6.
Anyway, have fun
BTW, even if you don't actually complete the installation, once you have the files you can open the DVD installer and there will be options there where you can open such documents as the install guide, the release notes and perhaps of more interest, the 'What's New' guide for NX 6.
Anyway, have fun
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
I had to say that if nothing else you can read a calendar!
Cheers
Hudson
P.S. It looks like I may be offsite for a while and will likely have to wait a little longer to try it out. In the meantime I look forward to seeing this post fill with hopefully positive comments
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Something is up with the License Options. No bundles available for selection, but NX6 still works fine for me.
Test drove the new True Shading and that's really really nice.
More to come later.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
ewh,
Don't forget that this is the first version using the CID and new port number for the license server changed from 27000 to 28000 (in case you're running more than 1 major version of NX).
If you're unable to get your bundle to show up in the License Options, don't worry about it, just bring up lmtools and make sure you can re-read your license file...if that works, NX6 should work. I had to edit a system environment variable (Right click on My Computer -> Properties -> Advanced tab -> Environment Variables -> System Variables) for the correct port number. It was still 27000, changed to 28000 and working fine.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
I see the 64 bit zip file on there today and it's dated 28JUN08 on the server. See the attached screen capture below...look at the list on the right if the text comes through in the image for you.
Are you using a browswer or FTP client to do the downloading? I quit using a browser and my speeds picked up a little more and the client supports resuming if the d/l gets interrupted for some reason.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
It might not be GTAC...it could be that your IP is not matching with what your Customer Service Rep has on his end. In order to download full product releases, your IP has to match with what Siemens has on file. Product updates do not require this.
Call GTAC and have them find out who your CSR is, then you can contact the CSR and get the IP entry changed on Siemens' end.
My IP used to change all the time when I opened up a browser here at work, so I feel your pain.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Our IT guy is still trying to download the 64bit software. He tells me that it is an 8-9 hour download and it keeps timing out (maybe its our "T1" line thats a problem). He has been in contact with with GTAC, and they told him that NX6 wouldn't be released until August, so no DVDs until then. They did not know about it's availability on the Product Download site, and told him that they would get back to him.
We haven't givin up, and the saga continues...
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
I might be able to get it and put it on our FTP for you, if John Baker doesn't feel that would be crossing any legal boundaries.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
The good news is that I've got the 64-bit version queued up in my FTP client and it's transferring without any timeouts after going for over 5 minutes.
The bad news is that it's going to take all day to download, probably due to traffic on their FTP. I'm only getting about 20 KB/s compared to over 100 KB/s 2 days ago. On top of that, my account here at work may disconnect me at midnight so I may have to resume the download tomorrow.
If you want to give this a shot, post back and let me know and I'll keep it going.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
thx, br, B
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
NX/Unigraphics
NX
...is one labeled...
NX/Unigraphics
Documentation
If you select that and then the Windows NT (Intel) option you'll find that it's the 28th item listed:
nx-ugdoc-6.0.0.zip
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Synchronous Technology is pretty damn slick although my system did bomb a couple of times when making some dubious uneducated edits, the pop-up selection intent is fantastic and as yet I've yet to take it out of full screen mode which I love, Siemens have created a thing of beauty here, the cutomisable raidial popups have alot of potential but I've not used it enough program them yet and to be honest the tool bar manager and pop up (via the alt key) menus are more than sufficient to keep me working at a fast pace with noticeably less mouse movement than any other previous version or indeed other CAD system that I have expereinced.
The orient express tool is excellent and again will save a lot of time and effort when defining vectors or planes and is really usefull when used in conjunction with Synchronous Technology for deciding for example which way you want to rotate a face.
Hide objects immediately is fantastic and so much better than the old Blank used in our current version of NX4.
I've still got a lot to try out and I'm looking forward to my upgrade course, if I come accross any major problems I'll post them, but so far, so fantastic!
Best regards
Simon (NX4.0.4.2 MP4 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c)
www.jcb.com
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RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
sorry, but under the full product download section at GTAC i have only I-DEAS, NX/UNigraphics NX and NX Nastran buttons, there is no other.
Can there be a problem with our licensing or something, because now i see that the docs for NX5 have also been moved somewhere else and are no longer in the NX/UNigraphics NX section? Or is there another download server for docs (current: http://ftp.ugs.com/download.php)?
thx a lot :)
br, B
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
If I use the web to access the FTP, I see no documentation tab at all and when I click the NX/Unigraphics NX tab, all I see are NX installs and documentation up to NX4, nothing for NX5 or NX6.
So next I tried to login to the FTP site using an FTP client. I browse to /product_download/. When I try to open the ug_doc folder, it tells me I do not have permission to open this folder.
I downloaded the docs back at the end of June...now they're nowhere to be found. Something has definitely changed.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Sorry if it's blurry. Let me know if not legible.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
br, Bojan
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Is there any way we could be notified about such changes prior to it actually being done, like via email? I mean, we get emails for things such as webinars and new technology like ST (whether we want the emails or not), so why not a change that can affect what a customer has access to download?
I'm not too keen on having access taken away for something that ultimately this company is paying for. Since webkeys are generated via individual licenses, I was unable to see the docs using MY login because it was only for my Sold-To ID. I had to add our other Sold-To ID to my webkey in order to even see the docs.
Had I known about this up front, I could have taken care of it earlier and the transition would have been seamless.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
So if you have been receiving the documentation, either by download or via CD-ROM's mailed to you, then either you were paying the annual subscription 'fee' or somehow your records indicated that you were entitled to the documentation.
So if this has changed, I suggest that you contact your CSR and have them verify what is included in your license agreement with Siemens PLM Software.
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
Not trying to make a mountain out a mole hill, but....paying your bill does not necessarily mean you're going to have access to everything for which you're paying. See below.
An example:
A company purchases 2 seats of NX, which equates to 2 seperate licenses. The company decides to purchase only one seat of the docs since they're not license controlled for operation or installation. The license file with the docs is Sold-To A, the second license WITHOUT the docs is Sold-To B.
Each license file has a unique WebKey access code that is required to create a WebKey account. The user of Sold-To B creates a WebKey account using the access code from the license given to Sold-To B (remember, his license DOES NOT have the docs shown on it). Now, how is he supposed to access the docs? His company is paying for it (under Sold-To A) but they cannot access the docs because the licenses aren't combined into ONE single WebKey account. How would they even know to do this if they were a brand new customer?
This is the scenario that I ran into and had I been given a bit of a heads up, I would have been able to take care of the problem long ago instead of just today, as well as saving me about 3 additional phone calls. Sure, it was just the docs, but what about the next time? It could be something more critical and that's all I am trying to avoid in the future.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX 6 available for download from the GTAC Product Download site
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/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.