{"id":3886,"date":"2016-06-10T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T13:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/ST9-Settings-and-Preferences-Wizard\/ba-p\/350394"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:22:31","slug":"st9-settings-and-preferences-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/st9-settings-and-preferences-wizard\/","title":{"rendered":"ST9 Settings and Preferences Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-left\" style=\"width: 222px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/SNAG-0009-1.png\" alt=\"SNAG-0009.png\" title=\"SNAG-0009.png\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">In an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/Solid-Edge-ST9-and-the-Cloud\/ba-p\/346814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post on the Cloud enhancements in ST9<\/A>, we have already talked about your settings being saved in the cloud so that where ever you log in from with your webkey account, you will always have your familiar settings without needing to go through and remember \/ reset everything. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">You can also manage settings now with a large group of users, if you want to make sure everyone is using the same settings. Here\u2019s how to do that.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/st9settingsandpreferences-1.png\" alt=\"st9settingsandpreferences.png\" title=\"st9settingsandpreferences.png\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">First, make sure that Solid Edge is not running. In the Start Menu, All Programs, ST9, under Solid Edge Tools, you now have the Settings and Preferences Wizard. The Wizard allows you to capture, deploy, or restore factory settings. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/st9settingsandpreferences2-1.png\" alt=\"st9settingsandpreferences2.png\" title=\"st9settingsandpreferences2.png\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">When you capture the settings, you have to choose a location for the settings file to be saved. If you are trying to deploy settings for a group of users, this needs to be a network accessible location, preferably with read\/write privileges set so the necessary parties can write settings to the file as well as being able to read. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">A nice feature of this tool is that it will also capture your template files and duplicate those as necessary to help everyone standardize.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">The wizard will also capture files from the originator\u2019s Preferences folder. The Preferences folder has files for holes, gage table for sheet metal, pipe threads, materials, wire harness preferences, and lots of other stuff that is great to have standardized between users.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><span class=\"lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-right\" style=\"width: 400px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/st9settingsandpreferences3-1.png\" alt=\"st9settingsandpreferences3.png\" title=\"st9settingsandpreferences3.png\" \/><\/span><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">Once you\u2019ve got the settings and preferences file created and saved, you need to point individual users to the file. You can do this in Solid Edge Options &gt; User Profile &gt; Settings and Preferences. From here you can also choose to re-apply the settings every time Solid Edge starts, to make sure you\u2019re using the correct settings, or to apply updates to the settings that may have been made since you last started the software. Or you can choose to update the settings and preferences file from your local settings. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">Having both of these options enabled for several users might get a little confusing, where you would have all users making changes to the settings file and then loading everyone else\u2019s changes at startup. You will probably want to put some thought into how you apply these settings to a group of users.<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;\"><FONT face=\"Calibri\" color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier blog post on the Cloud enhancements in ST9, we have already talked about your settings being saved in the cloud so that where ever you log in from with your webkey account, you will alw&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61781,"featured_media":3899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,183],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-product-updates"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2019\/09\/st9settingsandpreferences3-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61781"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}