UG Zip function on 64 bit machines 1

[Jackrabbit49er]

We are trying to install the UG zip function. After several dicussions with the home office, the original installer is thinking that the 64-bit machines are the problem. Has anyone installed the UG zip function from

http://www.w-eng.de/ugzipc.htm

onto a 64-bit system?

Native UG is NX 5.0.6.3

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[BOPdesigner]

I had the same problem. Uwam2ie got me squared away with this post.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=255727&page=2

 

[Jackrabbit49er]

I did a search for this problem too. Thanks for the information. I will have to try it out.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber

 

[looslib]

I have it running on a 64bit Wintel machine with no problems.

I have used it with NX4 & NX6, even though the documentation says it doesn't support those versions. John Baker has tested it on NX7 & NX7.5, on Wintel32 only, I think.


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[JohnRBaker]

John Baker has tested it on NX7 & NX7.5, on Wintel32 only, I think.

Yes, I'm still running on Windows XP-32, and yes, I've used 'UG Zip' with the latest versions of the NX, including NX 7.0 and NX 7.5.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

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[Jackrabbit49er]

Have you done any testing with 64 bit versions John Baker?

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber

 

[nx05admin]

I am the admin for Jackrabbit49er (and somewhat new to NX). If we first focus on 32-bit version, which I am trying to make work on my machine, we cannot get that to work. I have followed all instructions as documented at

http://www.w-eng.de/ugzipc.htm.

The new menu pick appears in NX and I get the new dialog, but all fields are empty and on any button click (including ellipses) the window just disappears. Any thoughts on what specific part I am missing?

Thanks!

 

[JohnRBaker]

No, I only have access directly (meaning I can do what I want and it's only me to blame if I mess it up) two PC's. One's an old desktop (Dell Precision Workstation 360, Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz w/1GB RAM, running Windows XP Pro-32) that I use only for office type tasks, such as email, surfing the net, etc. I don't even have NX installed on it.

My primary machine is a Laptop (Dell M65, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0 GHz w/2GB RAM, running Windows XP Pro-32) and on here, in addition to a full Office Suite (and a bunch of other tools and utilities), I have installed 11 versions of NX (UG V16.0 - NX 7.5).

So for now, that's my available environment. Granted, I could go down to one of the labs and gain access to most anything we support (or at least close to it), but obviously I couldn't do that on a regular basis as I try and keep up with what we're doing with NX 7.5 or accessing legacy releases for validation and sanity check purposes (although anyone in the building can run, from our servers, anything back to NX 3.0).

That being said, within a month my laptop will be 'refreshed' (I've carried that M65 all over the world for over 3 years now and it's starting to get a bit long in the tooth) to a current configuration. In this case a another Dell Laptop (M4400, Intel Core 2 Duo P8800, 2.66 GHz, w/4GB RAM). As for the OS, originally it was going to be Windows XP Pro-32, the current corporate standard for systems like this, but I just heard that for non-development systems (meaning units which are not used to compile/build NX code or otherwise support our development environment) that they will now come with Windows 7 Pro. While I'm not sure yet whether it will be 32-bit or 64-bit, I suspect that it will be 32-bit.

Note that I could have pushed the issue and probably gotten a Dell M6400/M6500 (17" versus the 15.4" for the M4400) but they're a BRICK (8.5 lbs versus 5.9 for the M4400) and they tend to run very HOT and will drain the battery in an hour or so.

Anyway, when it finally does show up, I'll let you know what exactly it was that I got ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[BOPdesigner]

I had to hack the original file to get it to work with NX 6 on 32 bit machines. Reference:

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=234936&page=4