Plotting from UG NX on Windows 7 1

[pencilgeek]

Am I the only goober who can't get UG NX to plot on Windows 7? I have an HP430. I can plot to it with Adobe and E-Drawings, but not NX. It goes thru all the motions, but the job never leaves the "queued jobs". Here is the log file.

9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: SUBMIT_TIME
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Job 0 Submitted
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending bSec ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending bPrintTo ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending myModel ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending myPlotter ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending myProfile ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Sending C:\Users\Chuck\AppData\Local\Temp\Chuck_31162_d30_sh1.cgm ...
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: QUEUE_TIME
9 May, 2011 19:07:25:BPS: Job Ready to Run
9 May, 2011 19:08:10:BPS: Downloading logfile.txt ...

I don't know enough to tell if this is correct or not.

Thanks
Chuck

 

[Singsonite]

I am having the same problem. We recently updated all of our workstations and have not been able to plot from any of them yet. We are using an HP Designjet T1100. I used the same environmental variable that was used to set up NX4, along with the same process. It should also be noted that we have NX4 and NX6 installed at the same time. I will be very interested to know how to resolve this.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Please contact GTAC and have them look at your issues.

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[Arkance/PhoeNX]

My guess is that you're probably using 64bit Windows 7?

On 64bit systems (Vista & Win 7), the two variables UGII_SDI_BPS_JOBS_DIR & UGII_SDI_OVERRIDE_HOME need to be set.
When they are unspecified they are created in the users profile, but Win 7 & Vista works their permissions differently from WinXP.

Creating those two variables & then pointing them to look at a folder, (c:\temp is the example I would follow) fixes the problem.

Simplest way to create the variables is:

Windows Control Panel -> System -> Advanced (TAB) -> Environment Variables (button)

Add a system variable and then enter the variable name & variable value

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32-> NX7.5.2.5, Beta NX8.0.0.15

 

[eex23]

Hmm.... it is strange. We have just upgraded our workstations to win 7 64bit. We have no problems ploting with ploter HP design jet 510, or with printer kyocera 1650.

 

[pencilgeek]

Anthony hit it right on the head! That did the trick. Another reason why I LOVE this site.

Thanks everybody.

 

[Singsonite]

Agreed. Our plotter issues have been resolved.

Thanks to all for replying. Special thanks to Anthony for the resolving the issue.

John B.

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

It gets asked a lot so I've made a FAQ for it.

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer

NX4.0.4MP10, NX5.0.0->5.0.6, NX6.0.0->NX6.0.5, NX7.0.0->NX7.0.1 & NX7.5.0.32-> NX7.5.2.5, Beta NX8.0.0.15

 

[Wogga]

I had the same problem, and entering the variables at least allowed the connection to our HP DesignJet 510. Now, however, when I try to plot, the plotter starts the drawing correctly, but after about an inch of the plot, it stops. The driver is the generic one in nxplotadmin. I'm using window 7 64 bit, with NX 7.0.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
..garry..