Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
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Hi,
Can somebody please help me with plotting from NX7 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine? The printers and a plotter are correctly installed with the Printer Administration Utility, and I can PRINT in Drafting. But when I open the plotting menu, no printer appears, only the 5 standard file formats. On the other hand, - if I select the Advanced Plot option, the printers are there! I can even push the Print button, and a queued job is issued, but it never completes.
I suspect Windows 7 to put constraints on the printer directory, or may be the some of the printing software (SDI - CGM) does not work on 64 bit systems.
I also have excatly the same installation on a 32 bit computer, and it works fine.
Any hints out there?
Reidar Hovtun
5x
Trondheim, Norway
Can somebody please help me with plotting from NX7 on a 64 bit Windows 7 machine? The printers and a plotter are correctly installed with the Printer Administration Utility, and I can PRINT in Drafting. But when I open the plotting menu, no printer appears, only the 5 standard file formats. On the other hand, - if I select the Advanced Plot option, the printers are there! I can even push the Print button, and a queued job is issued, but it never completes.
I suspect Windows 7 to put constraints on the printer directory, or may be the some of the printing software (SDI - CGM) does not work on 64 bit systems.
I also have excatly the same installation on a 32 bit computer, and it works fine.
Any hints out there?
Reidar Hovtun
5x
Trondheim, Norway





RE: Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
RE: Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
Yes, both the printers and the plotter have updated drivers. I am also able to print, both from NX and from other Windows applications.
It is the Plot menu that doesn't work!
Reidar
RE: Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
SDI_OVERRIDE_HOME C:\Program Files\UGS\NX 7.0\NXPLOT\bin
* Replace the above directory with the relative path to your installation.
RE: Plotting from NX7 on Windows 7 Pro/64
That ended my problems. Thanks a lot.
Reidar