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PLM Connection 2016 Welcome.

Realize innovation. Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2016

NX Administration –

How to have happy users Scott A. Felber | NX Design, Product Marketing Manager


Unrestricted © Siemens AG 2016

May 16-19, 2016 Page 3 Siemens PLM Software

NX CAD



Productivity Tools





Install the latest NX software and test

• Install Base NX

• 9.0.0 October 1, 2013

• 10.0.0 December 18, 2014

• 11.0.0 Fall, 2016

• Install Documentation

(can be served from web)

• Install Maintenance Release

• 9.0.3 August 29, 2014

• 10.0.3 November 20, 2015

• Install Maintenance Patches OPTIONAL

• 9.0.3 MP13 May 3, 2016

• 10.0.3 MP4 April 4, 2016

https://download.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/







Install the latest NX software and test

• You must download the specific

Maintenance Patch for the specific

Maintenance Release.

• You can apply any new Maintenance

Release at any time but may lose

specific patches from a previous MP.

• MR’s & MP’s are cumulative – you can

go directly to the latest one of each

• Make sure NX is up to date by going to

File/Help/About NX/System Information

• Only install MP’s to fix your problems



Subscribe to the Siemens PLM Software Field bulletins

Keeps you informed of pertinent technical information

automatically and in a timely manner.

• Sfbmail – Software Field Bulletins, notified as soon

as they are posted

• Summary – Weekly list with short description and

links

• Newsletter – Monthly list of links to articles

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/support/gtac/email-subscription.shtml







Change the “Start in:” directory for the NX Icon in the Windows Start menu

• In the Windows Start menu find the NX icon and

select right mouse button properties to get the Icon

properties window.

• Change the ―Start in:‖ directory to a valid user

directory.



Install Certified Graphics driver for your workstation and graphics card

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/support/gtac/certifications.shtml

http://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en_us/support/gtac/certifications.shtml



Run the “Evaluate Graphics Performance” option

• Run the ―Evaluate Graphics Performance‖ option in

the Visualization Performance Preferences.

• This command should be run after any of the

following to take advantage of your high end

graphics card.

• New workstation

• New Graphics card

• New Graphics driver

• First time you log into a machine, each user on a

machine must run the command

• New version of NX, must be ran for each version

on machine.



Visualization Performance

Viewing large assemblies can negatively impact

graphics performance

NX provides tools for minimizing this impact

Preferences Visualization Performance

Large Model Tab Recommendations

• Model Size

• Automatic: usually the recommended setting

• Large: use when automatic is not providing

adequate performance

• Fixed Frame Rate: On

• Background Loading: On

• Display Object Boxes Until Loaded: On



Set Site wide environment variables for NX

Create customer specific environment text file.

(EX: my_company_ugii_env.dat ) and place in location below.

Set a System Windows environment variable on all machines to point to a

server environment file.

EX: UGII_ENV_FILE=Z:\Siemens\NX_10\my_company_ugii_env.dat

You now have a centralized location for NX variables. #

# Copyright 1991 - 2013 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.

# All Rights Reserved.

#

###############################################################################

#

#

# This file should be used to override any standard NX environment variables.

# The values defined here will take precedence over the NX values. This file

# will not be overwritten by an MR installation.

#

# Override any variables here.



Documentation Setup - NX 10 and Up

You can use the NX documentation on GTAC without having to log in

Setup these variables

UGII_HELP_RELEASE_NOTES=https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/nx/10.0.3/release_notes/#uid:index

UGII_HELP_WHATS_NEW=https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/nx/10.0.3/whatsnew/#uid:index

UGII_HTML_UGDOC=https://docs.plm.automation.siemens.com/tdoc/nx/10.0.3/nx_help/#uid:index



Install JAVA

JAVA is required for Batch translators, PTS, WAVE Relations browser, Documentation search.

• Download and install JAVA 64 bit version http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

• NX 9 = JAVA 1.7 (PTS requires 1.7)

• NX 10 = JAVA 1.8 so far I use 1.8_45.

• Download and install JAVA 32 bit for NX 9 documentation. Not required for NX 10.

• For NX9 download and install documentation patch from GTAC: NX/Product

updates/Ugdoc/NX9/Qagent.

• Insert the following 2 lines in the file customer specific environment text file (EX:

my_company_ugii_env.dat ).

• UGII_JAVA_HOME=―C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60‖

• UGII_JVM_LIBRARY_DIR=―C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_60\bin\server‖

http://java.com/en/download/manual.jsp





Setup Site customer defaults

• Add an environment variable to the ―my_company_ugii_env.dat‖ file created for environment variables.

Group defaults are also possible, see NX documentation.

• UGII_SITE_DIR=Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Site

• Create a folder called ―Startup‖ in the site directory: Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Site\Startup

• Open NX and go to File/Utilities/Customer Defaults and select the Manage settings in the top right corner.

• Select the Export defaults icon on the right and save the file up to the server location.

• For NX 9 save as Z:\Siemens\NX_9\Site\Startup\nx90_site.dpv

• For NX 10 save as Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Site\Startup\nx100_site.dpv

When migrating to a new version of NX always export from the old

NX version and then import into the new version so NX can verify settings.



Site customer defaults –

Some common settings that you should change from OOTB

Look at customer defaults ―manage settings‖ and check ―scope‖.

If the value of scope is part you must make the change to the setting in the Template parts.

Setting Value Reason

Undo File Size 4095 Maximize memory for NX

Generate Weight data Yes Automatically save weight for all parts

Load Smart Lightweight Data Yes Helps users when loading lightweight

Drafting Standard ? Sets NX to specific standard, can be customized

Show Blank Templates No Make users use templates

Use Settings from Drawing template

Use Settings from Standard

? Choose where your drafting preferences are defined



Load Smart Lightweight

Customer Defaults Assemblies Site Standard Lightweight Representations

One of the drawbacks of loading Lightweight Representations is that not

all NX commands work with lightweight data, e.g. feature creation,

assembly constraints. Every release more items are added

Options:

1. Users can manually load exact data

2. Turn on Load Smart Lightweight Data



Load Performance & Memory Comparison

Memory Load Time

(Native)

Load Time

(Teamcenter

Integration)

Load Exact

Partial Loading OFF

Load Exact

Partial Loading ON

Load Lightweight

Partial Loading ON

Partial Loading

Lightweight

Loading

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%

100%

80%

60%

40%

20%



Display Center of Rotation customer default

―Display center of Rotation‖ Customer default added in NX 9.

The default setting for NX9 is that it is turned on.

In NX 10 the default setting is that it is turned off.

The display of the center of rotation can cause slight performance delays when working with remote sessions

of NX or with low end graphics cards.

Test and decide



Setup PAX files and File new templates

In NX native mode you can override the standard templates by

setting the UGII_TEMPLATE_DIR

Copy the appropriate PAX files and NX templates from

%UGII_BASE_DIR%\UGII\templates to a server location.

Ex: Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Templates

Modify PAX files and NX templates to suit to companies needs

Add environment variable to the custom

my_company_ugii_env.dat

Ex:UGII_TEMPLATE_DIR= Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Templates

See documentation on PAX files and templates.

If in Teamcenter you must import templates.

PAX files should also be managed if in Teamcenter



Download Reuse library, configure and install

From GTAC download site under Machinery Library download the desired parts

libraries.

Download the Machinery-library-install-tool-2015-09-08.7z

Unzip the install tool and run MachineryLibrary-Installation.bat

This tool will install the downloaded libraries for Native or Teamcenter.

Part names and numbers can be changed in seed part

using Part Families

Set the Site Customer defaults for Reuse library

Native: Machinery Library|C:\Siemens\Reuse Library

Managed: Machinery Library|infodba:Reuse Library



Configure a Site Material Library

Store custom material definitions in external MatML XML library files. Use customer defaults to control user

access to these library files, as well as to the standard NX material library.

1. Copy the OOTB material library to a server location for example

C:\Siemens\NX10\UGII\materials\physicalmateriallibrary.xml

2. In the customer defaults Gateway/Materials/Mass set the location to a

Site MatML library and restrict user control. Can also decide on other

Libraries

• Site MatML Library — A material library that all users have access to.

• User MatML Library — A material library to which only certain users are given access.

• NX Material Library — The library of standard materials (physicalmateriallibrary.xml) included with NX.

• Legacy NX Material Library — The library of standard materials (phys_material.dat) included with earlier

versions of NX.



Configure a Parts List for Drawings

Create template parts list. Right click on top left and Save As

Template

Give the template part a name, press OK and it will be saved in your

${UGII_ROOT_DIR}\table_files directory.

To set this as your default parts list template you have to add this to

your Customer Defaults. File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults ->

Drafting -> Annotation -> Parts Lists.

If in Teamcenter you can save the template and set customer

defaults to point to the Parts list. EX: @DB/my_template/A



CAE Wizards should Just Work in NX9 and later without Customer defaults

The NX NASTRAN variables are coded in

the software to use the NX NASTRAN in

the Base Directory.



Generate Support Logs for IR/PR

• When submitting an Incident report to

GTAC you can use the

― Generate Support Logs for IR/PR‖

option under File/Help.

• This will collect all the necessary files

for a quicker resolution to you issue.

• If you are using Teamcenter this

menu will also collect all those files

as well.

Customizing NX on

Windows

Rob Cohon

Siemens PLM Software

[email protected]



NX Administration Challenges

Out of the box NX is ready for a single

workstation environment

How can we easily adapt this environment and deploy

to multiple users across the network?



NX Administration Challenges

• How can company standards and best practices be easily deployed?

• How do you manage Customer Defaults for sites, groups and users?

• How do you allow users to share common libraries, tables, templates, tool

bars, programs, NC tooling and machine tools?

• How do you allow users to modify the NX configuration without affecting the

NX installation?

• How can you easily backup user configurations from one central location?

• How do you prevent modifications from being overwritten when NX is

updated?



NXcustom

Single location to access & store:

• Environment variables

• Customer defaults

• Tool bars, menus, menuscript & icons

• Libraries

• Tables

• Templates

• Manufacturing files

• Program files - journal, macro, KF, API & GRIP



NXcustom

NXcustom can be deployed to:

• Individual users

• Departments / functional work groups

• Entire company



Benefits

• No need to modify files in the NX installed folder

• Easily deploy company standards, best practices and knowledge

• Configuration files are not overwritten by software updates

• Maintain common configuration for many users

• Supports Teamcenter installations



Getting Started

Where do I get the files?

Siemens PLM Community Site under NX Programming and Customizaiton

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/NX-Programming-

Customization/bd-p/NX-Programming-Customization

Search for ―NXCustom‖

http://community.plm.automation.siemens.com/t5/NX-Programming-Customization/bd-p/NX-Programming-Customization














Getting Started

What do I do next?

• Unzip the NX100custom_RevA.7z file to a local or mapped network drive

• Open the NX100custom folder, double-click the NX100.bat file to start NX

• NXcustom is self-configured and knows where to find NX

• Create a shortcut to the NX100.bat file on your desktop



Customer Defaults

CustomerDefaults folder

• Site-level and Group-level customer defaults

• Username folder is automatically created to store:

• Dialog memory

• Window configurations

• Part history

• User-defined roles

• User-level customer defaults

• Sample batch files for CAD, CAM & CAE Group-level customer

defaults



Environment Variables

• Environment variables are stored in the NX10env.dat file

• The NX10env.dat file overrides the default environment variable values

within the UGII_ROOT_DIR\ugii_env_ug.dat file when NX is started

• Routing application environment variables are found in the

NX10env_routing.dat file



Environment Variables

• Environment variables are stored in the NX10env.dat file

• Do not edit the lines at the bottom of the NX10env.dat file:

#if FILE ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\${NX_NUMBER}env_routing.dat

#include ${NX_CUSTOM_LIB}\${NX_NUMBER}env_routing.dat

#endif

#if FILE ${UGII_BASE_DIR}\ugii\ugii_env_ug.dat

#include ${UGII_BASE_DIR}\ugii\ugii_env_ug.dat

#endif



Extras

• Sample tool bar files add a drop-down to the Utility tool bar to

show/hide datums, curves, surfaces and facets

• Menuscript examples to launch Windows calculator and reorder menu

items

• UGZIPC utility to create Zip files from NX assemblies

• File > Export > Zip Assembly

• NX Resource Bar web page – calculator and standard drafting notes

• Double-click NX10_Group1_CAD.bat



NX Routing Electrical and Mechanical

• NX10env_routing.dat file contains the Routing environment variables

• Routing units (metric/inch) are controlled in the NX10.bat file

• Routing folder is used for the Routing parts libraries



Manufacturing

• The CAMresource and CAMauxiliary folders store all the manufacturing

libraries

• Copy files from the installed %UGII_BASE_DIR%\MACH\auxiliary and

resource folders, then modify the libraries in the CAMresource and

CAMauxiliary folders

• Un-comment the UGII_CAM_RESOURCE and UGII_CAM_AUXILIARY

lines in the NX10env.dat file



Library Folder

Sub-folders are available in the NX10library

folder to store menu and tool bar

customizations, tables, templates, programs and

other libraries:

Uncomment associated environment variables

in the NX10env.dat file

• AnnotationTemplates • CAMauxiliary • CAMresource • CustomerDefaults • DesignTools • KF • Materials • Menuscript • ModelingStandards • NXweb • PCBxchange • Reuse Library • Routing • Showroom • Tables • Templates • ToolBars • VisualReports



Teamcenter Support

Configure the following files to run NXcustom with Teamcenter:

• Tc_start_NX10manager.bat

• Tc_NX10TCIN.bat



Summary

NXcustom reduces/eliminates the following NX

administrator challenges:

• What did I or my users change?

• Environment variables

• Menuscript

• Tool bars

• Customer defaults

• Library

• Template

• Other files



Summary

NXcustom enhances NX administration by:

• Managing files of all users from one location

• Managing files outside of the NX install folder

• Allowing quick and easy deployment across

the network

• Allowing easy backup from one location

• Implementing company standards

• Enabling knowledge capture and sharing

• Saving companies time and money



Questions

&

Comments

Thank you!

Scott A. Felber



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PLM Connection 2016 Connection 2016 ... • For NX 10 save as Z:\Siemens\NX_10\Site\Startup\nx100_site.dpv When migrating to a new version of NX always export from the old