Drafting: Load view preferences
Drafting: Load view preferences
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Hi,
I have made a lot of draftings on my pc at work. Now I have also a laptop with Nx installed on. I want my view preferences of my draftings from my old pc at work, on my laptop so I don't have to set my preferences again, which will save me a lot of time!! I copied a part which I made on my old pc on my laptop now (with the preferences I want). From drafting in a new part I made on my laptop I tried to load the view preferences but if I click the 'Load defaults' button, nothing happens.
How can I solve or do this?
I have made a lot of draftings on my pc at work. Now I have also a laptop with Nx installed on. I want my view preferences of my draftings from my old pc at work, on my laptop so I don't have to set my preferences again, which will save me a lot of time!! I copied a part which I made on my old pc on my laptop now (with the preferences I want). From drafting in a new part I made on my laptop I tried to load the view preferences but if I click the 'Load defaults' button, nothing happens.
How can I solve or do this?





RE: Drafting: Load view preferences
C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Unigraphics Solutions\<versionf NX>
...and and file names if <version of NX>_user.dpv. For example, if you're running NX 7.5 the file name would be 'NX75_user.dpv'. Copy this file to the same location as shown above on your new system (note there will already be a file there by that name, just replace it). Now start NX and your default settings will now be the same as they were on your original system.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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RE: Drafting: Load view preferences
Thanks for your response!
If I look under \Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions there is only a folder 'Solid Edge' which is also installed on my pc.
I changed the 'Customer defaults' under File -> Customer Defaults and saved it but still no file appears under \Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions. In 'Customer defaults' I changed the 'Dimension Decimal Places' from 1 to 0, saved it, shut down and start up NX, made a drafting, put an 'Inferred Dimension' but still there is 1 decimal place.
If I then look under 'Customer defaults' my settings are oke! Why is this?
Thanks
RE: Drafting: Load view preferences
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.com/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Drafting: Load view preferences
Thank you for your response!
This is a 'bad' property of the Customer Default settings!
But anyway, thanks!
RE: Drafting: Load view preferences
A good example is a change which we made in the next release of NX where we are now supporting the use of TrueType fonts in Drafting. In Customer Defaults you can specify which is the new default font and while it's still possible to set it to an older NX font, such as the current default 'BLOCKFONT', if you wished to instead use something like 'Arial' in the future, do think that making this change should force, upon opening any of your existing drawings, that they automatically either be converted to TrueType font or that if you added an additional note to an existing Drawing that it not be in what the default font was for that Drawing the last time you saved it? No, there are very good reasons why some (in fact most) Customer Defaults are Part Specific, which means that if you wish your legacy part file to reflect any changes that they require a manual update and not be a slave to some global change, either on your part or on ours.
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.com/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.