NX Customer defaults 2

[RAMNX]

Hi
In NX 7.5 there are 3 levels of customer defaults available. We can see these levels at top left corner of customer defaults dialog box.
Those are Site, Group and User. When I launch a new NX session default level is always User. Is there any way to change default level to Site? If any body know the answer. Please give me your advise

 

[JohnRBaker]

BTW, just because there is the 'Site' and 'Group' levels does not automatically mean that they've been set-up for use. The primary reason that the system defaults to 'User' is because that is the ONLY thing that we know for sure has been set-up since every 'user' gets a designated 'Siemens' folder at...

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\Siemens

...where your Customer Default information is automatically saved.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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Cypress, CA
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[cowski]

The average CAD user should not have write access to the site or group settings (only the CAD administrator should). Why change the default view to something the user cannot change?

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[NutAce]

Also there is no reason to have site as a default setting. What would be the use?
The site settings are taken anyway with startup of NX. It is not that they aren't applied when not selected in customer defaults.

Ronald van den Broek
Application Specialist
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
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[RAMNX]

Thank you for the replies. There are some company standards set at the site level and saved as "Company_Standards". For those same settings users have different values. Since default level is User. NX is working as per User settings. That is the reason we want to have Site as default level.

 

[Toost]

RAMNX, this is how it works ( reading your last post tells me i need to explain this.)
NX out of the box has a default setting. This cannot be changed and there is no need to.
These settings can be overridden by changes to the customer defaults Site settings. ( If there is a "UGII_SITE_DIR" set on this system.)
The Site settings can be overridden by Group settings, If the Site settings allow this. ( You can lock some or all settings on Site level) ( If there is a UGII_GROUP_DIR set on this system.)
The Group and Site settings can be overridden by User settings, If Site and Group allow this. ( You can lock all or some settings on the group level.) ( Equally you can set a UGII_USER_DIR variable, if you don't set this , it will default to what John Baker wrote above.


In your system, it seems that all the users have overridden the SITE and GROUP settings. As Cowski notes, It is not intended that the regular users have write access to SITE and GROUP. If i was the system manager, i would lock the settings that i want untouched and allow some to be changed as desired.

We had a case where an advanced user found the option to set manual checkout from/to Teamcenter, He then set that option for himself and his colleagues, the colleagues didn't really understand the change, and one of them lost half a days work due to that he couldn't save his assembly. Somebody else had checked out and saved the same assembly. we then locked everything on Site level as the default and unlocks option by option on demand.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[ewh]

Tomas exp[lained it well... if you don't want the users to take advantage of changing any settings, lock everything out at the site level. You will still see the user settings as the default, but the users will have to follow the site settings.

"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively."
-Dalai Lama XIV

 

[RAMNX]

Toost, Thank you very much for the explanation. Now I understand how to proceed. Once agin Thanks.