Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
(OP)
Ok I've always been a bite the bullet kind of guy (except I am still on XP LOL!) so...
Is NX compatible with Windows 7 and if so does that include 32 and 64 bit?
And while we are on the subject, we still use I-deas as well. Any word on that as far as windows 7 goes?
Keegan
Is NX compatible with Windows 7 and if so does that include 32 and 64 bit?
And while we are on the subject, we still use I-deas as well. Any word on that as far as windows 7 goes?
Keegan





RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Windows 7 isn't going to come out of the box note perfect so why not give things some time to settle down. I'm pretty sure NX will run just fine and for anything that doesn't there is an XP virtual machine bundled with Windows 7 professional. It promises to allow you to run anything with compatibility issues in an XP 32 bit environment. This much I've read but then again we heard a lot of positive feedback for Vista before it was released that pretty much evaporated right afterwards.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
NX 7.0 (and the future NX 7.5) will run on Windows 7 x64 for sure, I tell you. Is simply a question of certification by SIEMENS PLM software, give time to time ...
Best regards,
Blas.
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
If you're paying for O/S support and you move to Win7, before it's certified, then you could be putting yourself in position to eat a bullet as hudson put it. I agree with hudson and would recommend waiting until at least the first SP for Win7 or at the very least waiting until it's certified.
Same for I-DEAS.
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
The same risk is here.
But... (yes there is always a big but) here is my reasoning behind this.
Our company bought 64-bit machines last year but they purchased 32 bit Windows (out of FEAR! Whoooo!). Now I am getting "OUT OF MEMORY" many times a day. I've talked it over, we (or I being the guinea pig) are going to upgrade to 64 bit. So, why buy XP 64 bit (or vista for that matter) when Windows 7 is out there? I've heard some bad reports about Vista, Windows 7, and XP-64bit so either way its a risk.
At any rate the purchase probablly won't be anytime soon but what is the worst that could happen? I find out that it sucks, we go get XP 64 bit and reformat yet again. Now we have both seats anyway. Time consuming and fun no doubt but one day we'll all have to upgrade anyway.
gokhantr35... what about NX6? How do you even have NX7?
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Because it works.
Maybe its a good time to partition your hard drive and dual-boot.
NX 6.0.2.8 MoldWizard
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Let me ask nkwheelguy... What is your first impressions of NX7? (Stability, usability, performance, new features...)
Keegan
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
As mentioned earlier there is possibly no need for a dual boot unless you're keen on another NON-windows O/S. Multiple generally reliable sources have it that there is an XP/32 virtual machine embedded in W7 and that its native 64bit support is supposed to be compatible with earlier versions. Personally I'd wait and let somebody else find out whether drivers for all common devices really do work properly. We've been caught before on that account and as the old adage goes once bitten twice shy!
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
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RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
I never said I was running NX7, I just said it's been available for download from GTAC for a while now. ;o)
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
So call me a beta tester or overzealous but I don't get it sometimes why people can't move on. I know that just because it is old doesn't mean you throw it away but if we are just talking new versions of the same old product why not give it a go... dig in... see what its made of. Heck just test the waters!
What I don't get is our old CAD administrator had everyone on Ideas-11 when Ideas 6 was being released. She's gone now and now we are using Ideas 5 and NX6 with little to no troubles. We haven't updated I-deas because we are phasing it out and I love NX in comparison to I-deas, Pro-E, etc. Other companies are like this too. Huge cooperation on 10 year old software. I know it sucks to upgrade (especially if it was like the old Ideas Team Library where you had to migrate all the data to the newer version and thankfully Team Center is not like that) but you'd think these companies would trust a software 5 years after its release...
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Gokhantr35... What is your first impressions of NX7? (Stability, usability, performance, new features...)
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
I've been using NX7 since 3rd of october. My first impression is NX7 loading faster then NX6. (I use NX6.0.3 with NX7.0.0.9 on the machine)Synchronous Modeling enhancements are really perfect.
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
I don't really think it's the fact that people do not WANT to move on to new software, I think it's the fact that in the past people have gotten burned by moving too early and it's caused major issues in one way or another. Throw in some customizations or third party software that also might get hosed and you could have yourself a nice disaster on your hands. Sometimes avoiding the resulting mess outweighs the opportunity to play with new toys.
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
You didn't read the fine print?
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Will the certification process or notice also cover running under their touted XP/32 virtual environment? At this stage there is plenty being written about it but most is hazy on specifics. I'm just wondering whether anyone can say whether it will be necessary to use it because it represents the ONLY way to support some of the older versions of NX.
Call me once bitten twice shy if you must. Maybe I'm just dreaming up possible scenarios that are going to cause us pain, but until I'm quite sure of what we're getting into I'd rather wait a short while.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Our position is that since we fully expect that NX will be certified to run straight-up on Windows 7, that there is nothing to be gained by even considering running it under this 'emulation' mode.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
That is at least what I wanted to know. At a guess until clarification of driver support is fully available I'd have to say that the older the version the less certain that I feel about the availability of device drivers that fully support CAD graphics in particular.
Due to previous cautionary experience I'm more or less happier to wait a while. We had the devil of a time trying to find graphics drivers that supported NX-3 through NX-5 under Xp/64 for some time previously. Some users may recall or remain mindful of why I'm not as fully enthusiastic as others.
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Purchased or beta?
Best Regards
Hudson
www.jamb.com.au
Nil Desperandum illegitimi non carborundum
RE: Windows 7 and NX6 / NX7
Purchased, at home I use one of the RC candidates (betas) and it too has been flawless. Driver supprt has been reallly good, unlike the Vista fiasco.