Unigraphics enviromental variables 1

[cadmantools]

Does anyone know how to get a full listing of the "UGII_..." enviromental variables for Unigraphics.
Searching via help does not get work.

 

[phillpd]

This is the most extensive listing I've come across :

http://ww3.cad.de/foren/ubb/uploads/thome/NXEnvironmentVariables.pdf

Specialty Engineered Automation (SEA)

http://www.sea4ug.com

a UGS Foundation Partner

 

[JohnRBaker]

Most of the officially supported Environment Variables can be found in the 'ugii_env.dat' file located in the UGII folder.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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.

 

[looslib]

John's statement says it right. "officially supported". There are a lot more put in by developers for testing purposes or special circumstances that should not be used unless the customer has been given 'permission' by GTAC to use it.
For those who know me, this sounds like a mellowing with age, but I have played with some of the hidden switches and they do have to be used in a controlled environment.


"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[JohnRBaker]

Also, utilizing any of the variables which 'turn-on' out-of-date functionality can be counterproductive since the 'old' dialogs are never going to be updated to comply with the new look & feel or the inaction rules, the functionality will be removed from the User Documentation as well as the help system, they can NOT be used in Journals, if they are found to have errors there is little or no incentive on our part to fix them, and last but not least, eventually they will be removed altogether.

Now as Ben alluded to, many of the others which controls certain behavior, conditions or special cases need to used with caution since many of them are only temporary in nature or could actually conflict with each other (although that is rare, it has happened) and while it is true that if you use an obsolete variable nothing generally happens, but it does waste your time thinking that it's actually doing something when it isn't.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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.