remote reuse library speed

[swale2]

Hi with all the closures around the world we have moved our offices to home base and working remotely. All seems to work fine. The major exception is the reuse library of hardware. This takes a long time to load and slows the computer once I access it. Is there any tips or tutorials to ensure we have our library setup optimally? Would trimming some of the unused items help at all? Currently we are running nx 12 in native mode. Plans to jump to teamcenter later thsi year.
Attached is the customer default settings for reuse. Thanks in advance.

 

[NutAce]

First tip... When you switch to teamcenter, keep the library native. When you store the parts in Teamcenter it will be slow from the start.

Here's what we do.

We have a startup script which copies the Re-use library, from a central location to the users client on the Harddrive.
This is done every time the user restarts NX or on demand. Using robocopy ensures that only new and changed files will be copied.
Having the partfiles stored locally makes it a lot faster.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[Toost]

The reuse library and custom symbol library is very obviously written by somebody who never imagined that the files could be placed on remote servers...
Last year I created /tested custom symbols, i worked from home via VPN, the symbols stored on a company server somewhere.
My hair was first getting grey, then it started to fall off because of the performance....
I then by accident found that adding the custom symbol using a journal was instant( ! ), no delay !!.
Strange.

/ Regards,
Tomas

 

[swale2]

Both of these are fantastic help.
NutAce, is robocopy the program you use to manage this feature? I was thinking about moving this local but didn't know how to manage the new items users add. This is an excellent solution to this problem.

Toost, what journal program are you talking about? Is it available to others? I use a journal for exporting dxf's to clients and pdf's for electronic library. I had a quick searech on

http://www.nxjouranling.com

and didn't see anything.

Cheer
Shawn

 

[NutAce]

NutAce, is robocopy the program you use to manage this feature?

Yes, it's a commandline based feature in Windows.

Robocopy

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[swale2]

Ok so I'm trying the local mirror. But as I see it mirror feature is not a good options as it won't consolidate all the items from individual PCs that add new items. Does this code seem logical to you? The first line updates the local PC with any new items. The second line updates the network drive with any additional items. The /XO flag skips files already in place.

robocopy.exe U:\STANDARDS C:\REUSE /E COPYALL /XO /z /r:3 /w:6
robocopy.exe C:\REUSE U:\STANDARDS /E COPYALL /XO /z /r:3 /w:6

Is there some toggles in NX I have setup wrong. Trying to transfer the folder they are very large folders seems to be copying everything we use.

 

[NutAce]

We are only Synchronizing from the network drive. We are not synchronizing back from the clients.
If a user want's to create a new re-use item, then he needs to create it in his own folder. If it needs to be available for everyone, then our symbol admin will add it to the Network drive.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX12 / TC11

 

[swale2]

I copied the files to my local pc I change the "ugii_env.dat" file to point to my local. Nothing seemed to change. Than I remembered the customer defaults. Super fast now. Thank you very much for the help.