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UG-NX3 for non-lab use

Note: EECN cannot fully support the installation of UGNX on your personal computer. EECN will try and offer suggestions to help. Otherwise, you must complete your UGNX work in the MTU labs available.

Note: EECN will not attempt UGNX support for Windows Vista or MAC at this time.

1. For certification of specific systems, video cards, OS... please see this link
2. For minimum system requirements, UG reccomends Windows XP (SP1) or Windows 2000 (SP3). XP Professional and 2000 Professional are certified by UGS to be used with NX. If you try to use Home Editions and experience troubles, EECN will not help to diagnose it. For more specific information, see link above.
3. Visit NX Staff/Student Use site for license agreement and enter username and password (same password as for email).
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4. This step removed.
5. Connect to VPN. Note: In order to start NX, off-campus NX users must be connected to the VPN and aquire an MTU address to establish a connection with the license server.
   1. Open vpn.mtu.edu in web browser and login with userid and ISO password (same password as for email).
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      • If you cannot successfully log in, make sure you sync your password at...
        login.mtu.edu and select "Active Directory/ISO Password Synchronization"
      
      
      • install necessary plugins.
   2. 
      

      For Windows XP	For Windows Vista (not supported by EECN at this time)
      Select link "Engineering UGNX Install Drive"	Select link "get an MTU address"
      -	In Command Prompt (DOS), type "net use * \\eecn-smb1.coe.ad.mtu.edu\nx" (without the quotes)

      
      
   3. Enter userid: MTU\userid (Make sure MTU is in CAPS)
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   4. Enter ISO Password (also, same password as for email).
   5. This will mount the drive as the L: drive (or possibly different drive letter for Vista) as shown below...
   6. If MTU\userid does not work and you cannot get passed this login, your firewall may be blocking it. Temporarily shutting off the firewall may give you access to this. Start | Control Panel | Windows Firewall | Check off. Please remember to reset to ON after installing NX.
   7. If you are using Windows Live OneCare and are having troubles getting passed this login, please temporarily do the following...
      1. Go into Windows Live OneCare
      2. Open my settings
      3. Open the firewall tab
      4. Click on Advanced Settings
      5. Open the Ports and Protocols Tab
      6. Scroll to the bottom of the list there
      7. Checked VPN – ESP and VPN – GRE to enable them
      8. Hit ok to exit out
6. Note: For Windows Vista, the directories may need to be copied to your hard drive. Then
   1. Right click on the executable files (ie: setup.exe)
   2. Select properties
   3. Select the compatability tab
   4. Check the "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
   5. Select Windows XP (Service pack 2 in that box)
   6. Then check the box at the bottom next to "Run this program as an administrator"
   7. Do the above for ALL of the following exe files:
      1. Launch.exe (in the opened "base_n_options_translators" folder)
      2. setup.exe (In the "nx030" folder opened from base_n_options_translators)
      3. setup.exe (in the "nxflexlm030" folder opened from base_n_options_translators)
      4. setup.exe (in the "translator030" folder opened from base_n_options_translators)
7. Install according to documention on the drive called installnx3.pdf
   1. You may be required to run Human Modeler. If so, during custom install, select NXHUMAN dropdown | select "This feature will be installed on local hard drive."
   2. If you need NXHUMAN and it did not get installed the first time, you need to re-install from mounted drive, run Launch | Modify | select NXHUMAN dropdown | select "This feature will be installed on local hard drive." | Select Install
   3. If you do have to modify the install for NXHUMAN, you may need to run the update after (ugs_update0304 as instructed on pdf) to make sure everything is at latest revision.
8. If you are having problems installing after connecting to the drive, you can copy directories and files from that drive onto your personal hard drive and install from there.
9. If you are having problems connecting to the drive, you can log into another computer, mount the drive and copy the directories and files onto a CD and install to your personal computer from the CD.
10. For Windows Vista Users (Not supported by EECN at this time)...
    1. Select: Start | Programs | NX 3.0
    2. Right click on NX 3.0 (the program icon)
    3. Select Properties
    4. Select the Compatability tab
    5. Check run in compatability mode then select Windows XP SP2
    6. Check the run program as administrator box towards the bottom.
    7. Select Apply and OK
11. After launching NX, if you receive a "Runtime Error!",
    • If you are using Internet Explorer 7, refer to UGS Solution
      solution being to delete the file C:\\Program Files\UGS\NX 3.0\UGII\Psapi.dll.
    • The following web page describes this error...
      Runtime error
      Make sure that you have the latest Service Pack and hotfixes.