Differentiating NX4 and NX6 files

[NXsupport]

Hi,

NX6.0.5.3 and Teamcenter 2007..

Is there a way to make system display a message to designer , if he has the NX6 env set on his system and he is trying to load NX4 part..

Any thoughts?

 

[hudson888]

There is only one way that I know of where the system supports this out of the box.

When you open an individual file it is easy enough to check the part history. The first line of the listing will always be your user's current NX-6 session, but if the line below has been an NX-4 session you have an older part. This is rather manual, but you could automate it by setting up a grip or journal program possibly by running it upon opening the file using a user exit strategy. However the bad news is that you're probably opening up assemblies that call NX-4 parts all the time, and for them there is no such easy way of knowing.

At the very least this probably needs to be looked at as a Windows or other file system problem in that what you really want to do is store NX-6 files somehow differently from NX-4 ones whether in separate folders or using file permissions to manage access. Most of us know how to manage read access manually and could look up ways to set CREATOR OWNER permissions so that different users have exclusive rights to their own files in a shared Windows file system. Whether there is the ability in any file system to distinguish between different applications i.e. NX-4 and NX-6 in similar terms might be interesting to find out. Otherwise the capacity to do it may exist within Windows at least but perhaps only if you login as two different users for NX-4 and NX-6.

Best Regards

Hudson

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