Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
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I've installed NX6 32-bit on Windows 7 64-bit.
I now want to install NX6 64-bit, but the installation recognizes that NX6 is already installed.
Is it possible to install the 32-bit and 64-bit versions ?
I now want to install NX6 64-bit, but the installation recognizes that NX6 is already installed.
Is it possible to install the 32-bit and 64-bit versions ?
NX 6.0.5.3
Windows XP32





RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
What you do is RENAME the folder which NX 6.0 is currently installed in, perhaps adding something like '-32_BIT' so as to indicate what it actually is.
Now go to your Windows 'Control Panel' and perform an UNISTALL on NX 6.0. Now the system will do it's thing, purge the information about NX 6.0 from the registry and so on, but since the folder where NX 6.0 is actually is located is no longer named what it was when it was originally installed, the actual deletion of the files will not take place, but rather they will remain intact. Now it may still take a few minutes for this task to be fully completed, but when it is you can now perform a normal NX 6.0 64-bit install.
Now once this is done you will only see the 64-bit version of NX 6.0 in your Windows Start menu which means that you will need to find an alternative way to start your 32-bit version. I would recommend that you create simple .bat file to launch NX (note that I currently have 12 different versions of UG/NX installed on my laptop and I start ALL of them using Batch files).
Note that I've attached a generic batch file which you can use to start a session of NX (before you extract the file, edit the extension from .zipper to .zip. This was done because some systems will not allow you to download a .bat file, even if it's zipped, so we have to fool the system). Please read the contents of the file carefully as it includes instructions on what settings need to be set in the file to make it work.
Good luck and let me know how it all works out.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
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RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6.0.5.3
RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
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: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."
Ben Loosli
RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
still advisable to use .bat files as John has suggested to choose which install you are using.
Anthony Galante

Senior Support Engineer
NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32-> NX7.5.2.5
RE: Installing NX6 32-bit & 64-bit on Windows 7 64-bit
And yes, GTAC, pretty much said "don't do it".
NX 6.0.5.3
Windows XP32