Another customer default question

[jerry1423]

I changed some customer defaults, nothing too big, just a few thngs here and there.
If I pull up an existing part file and save it, will that file look at the new customer defaults and save those to itself?

 

[ewh]

No.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - [small]Robert Hunter[/small]

 

[JohnRBaker]

Actually it may help if we review a few things.

There are two types of Customer Defaults, Part and Session.

Part Defaults are the ones which a new part file, when it's first created, will inherit and will remain as they were unless explicitly edited in the Part file and saved, irrespective of any subsequent changes made to Customer Defaults. Now there is one exception to this and that's when creating a Drawing, you have the option, under Drafting Preferences, to replace the Drafting Standard used in the Drawing Template with the current Default Drafting Standard as last set in Customer Defaults. Now this brings us to another thing that you will need to remember and take into account.

If you're using template files for Modeling and Drafting, or any of the other applications which supports templates, you have to remember that the Part Defaults which they are based on will be the ones that were in effect at the time the original template part file was first created, NOT when you use the template file when starting a new design or creating a Drawing. So if you make any changes to your Customer Defaults and it's a Part Default, and you would like them to also be included in your template files, you will need to do one of two things; either after making the Customer Default changes, you recreate all of your templates, or you can open the original template files and using the various Preference dialogs, change the settings as desired (most Part Defaults can be changed and updated using Preference dialogs) and then save your changes.

OK, now for the second type of Customer Defaults, Session Defaults. These are ones which will effect ANY NX session, irrespective of when your current Part file was created or whether it was using a template or from scratch. Most of these settings are generally the ones which would be specific either to the system that you're running on, such as graphics, or for your environment such as which are your default directories and such.

Now as to how to find out which Customer Defaults are Part and which are Session specific, the easiest way to do that is to open the Customer Default dialog, select the 'Find Default' button in the upper-right corner of the dialog (the one with the 'binocular' icon) and then enter 'all' and you will get a complete list of ALL Customer Defaults. Now scroll over to the last column on the right, which it labeled 'Scope', and it will show for each item whether it's 'Part' or 'Session' and if you click on the column header it will cause the list to be sorted based on the contents of that column. If you do that you'll discover that there are maybe an order of magnitude MORE 'Session' defaults than there are 'Part' defaults (just in case you need a good 'trivia' question sometime ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
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[ewh]

Can I change my response? ;-)
Depends.

"Good to know you got shoes to wear when you find the floor." - [small]Robert Hunter[/small]

 

[jerry1423]

Thank you John,

You answered many questions that I had while going through the customer defaults.