Retaining NX preferences and settings
Retaining NX preferences and settings
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NX 7.5 does not retain the user settings and preferences. Every morning I must re-establish these settings.
I noticed the file that stores the settings (userdefaults.dpv) on my local gets over-written when starting our integration software. My custom file gets replaced with whatever is loading from the server.
Also, the only available default level in Customer Defaults is “user”.
I asked our IT dept. about this and they told me the follow:
“There is no way to change the local user settings to be set when NX integration is being used.
When ECTR is called (software used for NX Integration), it copies the Server installation to the local installation to rid of inconsistencies. The only way is to update the Server installation's user settings, but that would affect all users at site location.”
Are they correct? Must I re-establish my preferences and settings each day I log in?
Or is there a work-around?
I noticed the file that stores the settings (userdefaults.dpv) on my local gets over-written when starting our integration software. My custom file gets replaced with whatever is loading from the server.
Also, the only available default level in Customer Defaults is “user”.
I asked our IT dept. about this and they told me the follow:
“There is no way to change the local user settings to be set when NX integration is being used.
When ECTR is called (software used for NX Integration), it copies the Server installation to the local installation to rid of inconsistencies. The only way is to update the Server installation's user settings, but that would affect all users at site location.”
Are they correct? Must I re-establish my preferences and settings each day I log in?
Or is there a work-around?





RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
The other way is to start TC and then launch NX from it.
Which method are you using? Is ECTR a batch file?
The batch file also copies each users settings from the server at launch back to the local machine, and when they exit NX it copies their settings back to the server. This way no matter what computer they log into their settings follow them.
See below for the batch file we use for NX8 and TC.
@echo off
rem Line below added to prevent wave license error message.
set UGII_DONT_ACTIVATE_GATEWAY_NAVIGATOR=1
set TC_ROOT=C:\UGSPLM\Teamcenter\TC83UA
set TC_DATA=\\dellserver3\volumes\TCENG\WMTI_83UA_tcdata
rem set environment variables for UGNX
set UGII_BASE_DIR=C:\UGSPLM\NX 8.0
set UGII_ROOT_DIR=C:\UGSPLM\NX 8.0\UGII\
set UGII_ENV_FILE=T:\nx_config\startup\ugii_env8.dat
set UGII_REUSE_ENABLE_CUSTOMIZED_DESCRIPTIVE_NAME=1
set UGII_UGDOC_BASE_DIR=I:\UGSPLM\NX 8.0\ugdoc
set UGII_SMP_ENABLE=1
rem below allows for multiple BOM in a drawing.
set UGII_UPDATE_ALL_ID_SYMBOLS_WITH_PLIST=0
rem below sets the F1-F4 keys to behave as I-Deas
set UGII_FKEY_DYNAMICS=1
rem variables below are for plotting.
set UGII_SDI_BPS_JOBS_DIR=C:\TEMP
set UGII_SDI_OVERRIDE_HOME=C:\TEMP
set UGII_SDI_SERVER_CFG_DIR=T:\NX_Config\NX_Plot
set FMS_HOME=%TC_ROOT%\fcc
set JAVA_HOME=%TC_ROOT%\portal\jre
call %TC_DATA%\tc_profilevars.bat
echo d | xcopy "\\dellserver3\team\NX_Config\copy_to_clients\ugsplm\nx 8.0" "c:\ugsplm\nx 8.0" /y /e /r /f
echo d | xcopy "\\dellserver3\team\master\UGS\NX80\%username%" "%userprofile%\Local Settings\application data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX80" /y /e /r /f
rem cls
cd /d %TEMP%
set UGS_LICENSE_SERVER=28000@TCENG
call "C:\UGSPLM\NX 8.0\UGMANAGER\ugmanager"
echo d | xcopy "%userprofile%\Local Settings\application data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX80" "\\dellserver3\team\master\UGS\NX80\%username%" /y /e /r /f
Regards
Jurgen Kreisel
NX8 Win7 TC8.3
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
batch file they can create for us. Thank You
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
As an admin, I always caution my users to be careful they don't change some setting that we want as a corporate default. NX can run the *.dpv files from various locations with the latter files changing any defaults set by earlier file reads. Be sure you understand the heirarchy of these file reads and place yours in the last read location.
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RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
We lock any settings that we do not want users to change.
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings
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It is not immediately clear if this works in tandem with Teamcenter (TC) or if it is a stand alone full fledged PLM product (competitor to TC). If you are not running some flavor of TC, some of the above replies may not apply to your situation...
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RE: Retaining NX preferences and settings