×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Network install of cast

Network install of cast

Network install of cast

(OP)
Did someone do a successful installation of the cast on a networkdrive?

I can open all the html files, but when I want to open examples nx-parts it give the following location error:


------------------------------------------------------
Locating the parts
The CAST Library parts are, by default, located in the directory shown below, which is established during installation:

Linux: $UGII_BASE_DIR/nxcast/parts

Windows: %UGII_BASE_DIR%\nxcast\parts

The parts at your facility may be in a different location, depending on how the CAST Library was installed. If you cannot locate the parts, see your system administrator.

The parts used in the activities in this course are located in the sketch directory.

All parts are read-only. If you want to save a copy of a part, use Save As to save the file to a location where you have write access.
------------------------------------------------------


I already tried a few things:
open via batfile: UGS/nx7.5/nxcast/castonly.bat

add system variable:
UGII_CAST = U:\unigraphics\nxcast
UGII_CAST_HTML_DIR = %UGII_CAST_HOME%\html
UGII_CAST_HTML_URL = %UGII_CAST_HOME%\html\index.html
UGII_CAST_PARTS = %UGII_CAST_HOME%\PARTS

Moved the parts to %UGII_BASE_DIR%\nxcast\parts

Installed the cast again, but instead of choosing 'No' at installing as webserver choosing 'yes'

Nothing seems to work.

I hope someone else knows the answer
Thanks in advanced,
Robijn

--------------------------
nx7.5.2 - windows xp 32bit

RE: Network install of cast

We have CAST installed on a network drive.  We specified the install location for both the CAST html files and the part files as separate folders.
We do not access CAST from within NX and we do not access our example part files from within CAST.  We have a session of NX running alongside CAST and access the part files by the normal NX File>Open and then browse to the example part files location and select the file.
When we click on the little icon at the top of the CAST screen, we get the same message that you listed... I believe it's there to  tell you HOW to find your example parts, not to open an explorer window listing them.
Maybe this is a by-product of not integrating CAST into NX, tho.  
Anyway, that's our method.  Seems to work ok.

RE: Network install of cast

(OP)
pmgtxt,

thanks for your replay.  I will use your method.

If you add the following system variable, you will be able to open the cast within NX
UGII_CAST_HTML_URL = your index.html location

Kind regards

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources