Global Preferances, Similar to Pro Engineer?

[dfeltyberger]

Hi all!

I'm relativley new to UG (NX 7.5), I'm coming over from Pro Engineer Creo.

In ProE there is a file that can be created/edited which has all of the global preferences (dimensioning, colors, macros, etc). I've not yet been able to find UG's analagous file, does one exist? I can edit colors and anotation preferences in one model, but they do not carry over to other models.

I'm essentially trying to get all of the models/drawings I open to have the same color and dimensioning scheme (if that is even possible).

Thank you in advance for the help!

 

[jerry1423]

I have not been on ProE for many years, so I forgot many things on it, but
maybe start with:
File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults
and see if that gets you going in the right direction.

 

[looslib]

Jerry pointed you in the right direction to the Custoner Defaults file. There are multiple levels to the different files for system, group and user, just like having multiple config.pro files in different folders.

With NX you do not have the option of editing the customer defaults in a text editor like you can with config.pro. All of your edits must be made from with in the program, like the Tools-Options in Creo.


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[dfeltyberger]

Thanks for the input!

It looks like our system admin has locked the user-level customer defaults.

I'll have to see if they can un-lock it for us.

Thanks!

 

[jerry1423]

and do a search in here on customer defaults there's plenty in here that you can probably learn from

 

[JohnRBaker]

And when you speak to your system admin people, please ask them what it was about something which was identified as a 'USER-LEVEL CUSTOMER DEFAULT' that led them to assume it would be advantageous to prevent USERS from actually having access to this feature.

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