Drafting: Load view preferences

[drir]

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?

 

[JohnRBaker]

To transfer most of your default settings, you will need to move a copy of your Customer Defaults file from your current system to your new one. You can find this file at...

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.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[drir]

Hi John,

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

 

[JohnRBaker]

Some settings are Part specfic and some are Session specific. The Part specfic settings ONLY have an effect on NEW part files when they are first created. Once created, changes to these Customer Default settings will have NO effect on existing Parts and you must make the changes in the Part files themselves and resave them.

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.

 

[drir]

John,

Thank you for your response!

This is a 'bad' property of the Customer Default settings!

But anyway, thanks!

 

[JohnRBaker]

NO, this is how it's supposed to work. Besides, if you had all of your drawings created in one manner and then someone came along and changed a Customer Default, do you expect that whenever you opened one of these older, RELEASED drawings that suddenly something would change based on this new setting, overriding something which had been decided on years ago as what you wanted?

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.