System Admin Open Forum

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System Admin Open Forum
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My Contact Info

• Ken AkerboomMoog, IncEast Aurora,
  NYkakerboom_at_moog.com
• Specialty Engineered Automationakerboom_at_sea4ug.co
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System Admin SIG

• If you are interested, sign up out by the
  registration desk, so when we have more
  year-round activity.

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Topics

• This is an open forum to discuss system admin
  issues
• Assuming we have one, please use the mike so all
  can hear your questions and/or answers
• I will post notes a couple weeks after the
  conference as the presentation.

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Question

• If Siemens PLM Software were to support
  StarOffice or OpenOffice for the spreadsheet used
  in NX, how many of you would be interested?

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Things were doing at Moog

• FlexNet Manager
• As people were interested, I (Ken) will put
  together some kind of webinar to show how we
  use it at Moog.
• HP Blades WAN / Shunra
• If you will be using on a WAN, and your users
  live die with their spaceball, TEST Ive
  found spaceballs to be almost useless on a
  typical WAN link (they work fine on a Gb LAN)

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Random topics

• If HP DesignJets (and ONLY DesignJets) have
  REALLY slow performance issue (I think this was
  NX5 upgrade from NX3), there is a patch available
  from Siemens PLM
• Why cant we run UGS_Update.bat (MR/MP install)
  using a UNC?
• It has to be local, so must map a drive or pass
  around a CD
• Update one system and just copy changed files
  yourself to all other systems

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Random topics (2)

• TC and NX
• Some configuration files can be put in TC. Some
  have to be at the OS level. It would be better
  to be able to keep almost all in TC (e.g. NX5
  or 6 finally supports storing patterns in TC).
• Note personally, I think the ugii_env.dat (and
  possibly a couple other files) may HAVE to stay
  outside TC).
• Exporting JT on save
• Rendering in TcEng GUI really slow (panel at
  right)
• Can it be improved?

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Random topics (3)

• Can we get better way than runninga REG file to
  add a tab to the resource bar?
• Should we have a System Admin CIP
• Yes
• I (Ken) wont do unless I get sufficient Ers to
  make up a good ballot
• One ER I have already is to modify the MR/MP
  install to allow backing out an MR/MP.
• I (Ken) will work with PLMworld Siemens to see
  what we can do.

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Random topics (4)

• Hardware 64 bit
• Is there really a reason to go to 64 bit?
• If you are having memory issues then YES
• When buying hardware, what order should we
  optimized CPU/Graphics/Memory
• Andy Plescia RAM, then Graphics, then CPU
• Best to test (if you are buying a bunch of
  syetems, you may be able to get loaners, and try
  different hardware configurations).
• Note Macros have a time stamp option for timing
  tests. Also see BBS posts for journals for
  performance testing

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Random topics (5)

• Does HP still offer tuning framework? YES
• Does graphics tuning in NX help?
• Andy Plescia - The evidence is not conclusive
  it may or may not help
• Is there a plan to have all settings in one
  place?
• Network ENV editable like customer defaults?
• Note in custom ENV file you only need to define
  the ENVs you change, then include the default
  one
• Seems it could still be easier.

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Random topics(6)

• Can we put a solid view on a drawing, and output
  a PDf of the drawing with the 3D solid embedded
  in the PDF, viewable (zoom/pan/rotate-able) in
  3D PDF viewer?
• Note you can export a JT and publish that to
  Acrobat 3D
• Discussed plans for SIG pages on PLMworld web
  site. Also efforts (e.g. conference calls) to
  make the SIG more of a year round activity.

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Random topics (7)

• How can we get people out of bundles they should
  not be using?
• Set OPT (flexLM) to prevent future usage, but
  only really applies after they exit NX restart
  (and depending how they do it, you may still need
  to visit workstation to fix ENV)
• Use LAN Tools to show what users have bundles,
  then use peer pressure to get people to mend
  their ways
• Use a .BAT to start NX, have use select bundle
  from menu. This is particularly effective if you
  are in TcEng, so they dont have to exit both NX
  and TC to set/clear bundle ENV. See next page

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Random topics (8)

• Code to put in Start_Ugmanager.Bat to pick a
  bundle. If you dont understand DOS, there is a
  book Windows NT shell scripting by Tim Hill
  (macmillan tech. Publ) that is really good in my
  (Ken) opinion hopefully a newer edition has the
  2000/XP/?Vista? Updates/additions.
• Code is in Notes page for this page
• Adapt for your bundles as appropriate