Obtaining CAD Administration?

[JPM73]

Hi,

I have a handful of computers or UG sessions that needs be customized. I believe if I had CAD Admin rights, I could do this more globally, instead of going to each computer & doing the same thing multiple times.

I would like to modify UG NX 4 Customization settings. If I had CAD Admin rights, which files should I be looking for to make "global" changes to the computers or UG sessions I need to change?

Thanks

Jason,
CTQ Engineering
Technical Team Leader
GE Product Definition Designer

 

[hudson888]

Jason,

It doesn't generally work that way, you'll need either to customize the individual installations to point to files on a networked drive, or run a startup script that does either or both for you as needs be.

I think that you only want to customize variables and switch settings. With that in mind my understanding is that the first instance of each variable is the one accepted by NX, but when you script things in .bat files for example the opposite may take precedence. You need to be aware of that when setting things up. Read up on the customer defaults and ugii_env.dat settings to begin with.

Also understand that you can set up levels of customization within the customer defaults for user group and global environments. So that you maintain site/global consistency for some things and allow users choice in setting non-critical personal preferences. The group level that falls in between is usually used on a project or customer basis where different drafting standards, borders and templates are used from time to time.

Best Regards

Hudson

 

[DavidTolsma]

Set the UGII_ENV_FILE variable on each machine, point this to a shared drive. Now you have control of settings for practically all your environment.

Set: (for example)

UGII_SITE_DIR=z:\siteSettings\
UGII_GROUP_DIR=z:\groupSettings\
UGII_LOCAL_USER_DEFAULTS=Z:\nx5_user.dpv

If you want the users to change the customer defaults make sure the local_user defaults is pointed to where they have write access, if it is one shared location change the file name to user a windows variable for the logged in user name.

Now in NX set your customer defaults up in the site, lock the settings your want and go from there.


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