Plug and Play Issues with UG

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 10:16 am

Well, the new driver/ nx plugin didn't work. I can't find any electronically controlled switches as you described. Is there any command in your program that would force the driver to research for devices? or any sort of restart command? I'm just looking for something to point me in the right direction.

Thanks for all of your continual help.

Post by **jwick** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 12:29 pm

I don't think the problem is searching for the devices. The problem is that you have two connected. It searches fine...and always finds and uses the first one. A manual USB switch should work.

Jim

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:26 am

A manual switch isn't an option due to the distance issue. If they made an electronic controlled usb switch I'd be all up for that. But they don't, so what can I play with in windows xp to hide the one device to make the driver look for the second device? Thanks - David

Post by **jwick** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 10:32 am

Say now there's an idea. Try going into the device manager and disabling one or the other device (right click). Restart the driver to see if it picks up the other one. Edit: I tried it here. It works perfectly. Great idea!

Jim

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:18 pm

It did work great until NX5 came out. Now you can't restart the driver without closing and reopening Unigraphics first. Is there a way to cheat the driver into working with an already open version of NX5? Or maybe cheat NX5 into thinking the driver never closed? Thanks

Dave

Post by **jwick** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:30 pm

???
Do you need 3DxNX (our plugin for UG)?
It is really only useful for SpacePilots (it adds commands on the LCD).

Try uninstalling it (custom installation on 3DxSoftware) and see if UG works after you bounce the driver. I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't accept data from a refreshed driver. I don't think it keeps track.

Let me know.
Jim

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:45 am

If you stop and start the 3dxware driver while NX5 is open the SN won't work until you close and reopen NX5. I tried uninstalling the 3DxNX add in but that didn't change anything. Any other ideas? Thanks -- Dave

Post by **jwick** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:26 am

I'm out of ideas. I plan to address your situation in the next major release of the driver.

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:12 am

You have no idea how much you'd be helping me if the next release took care of that. Thanks for you constant help and support.

Thanks ---

Dave

Post by **jwick** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:41 am

You know UGS is not going to like me if I keep them from selling you another license of UG <GGG>

Have a great holiday.

Jim

Post by **rstadie** » Thu Dec 20, 2007 11:40 am

Hi Dave,

the following works here:
Download Microsoft devcon. Extract it somewhere to your path.

Then create 2 batch files:

left.bat

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ECHO off

"C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware\3DxWare\3dxsrv.exe" -shutdown -quiet
devcon.exe disable "@HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&3A81885B&0&0000"
devcon.exe enable "@HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&304CAC1&0&0000"
"C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware\3DxWare\3dxsrv.exe"

right.bat

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ECHO off
"C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware\3DxWare\3dxsrv.exe" -shutdown -quiet
devcon.exe disable "@HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&304CAC1&0&0000"
devcon.exe enable "@HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&3A81885B&0&0000"
"C:\Program Files\3Dconnexion\3Dconnexion 3DxSoftware\3DxWare\3dxsrv.exe"

You have to replace the IDs "HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&304CAC1&0&0000" and "HID\VID_046D&PID_C626\6&3A81885B&0&0000" with the Device Instance ID shown in device-manager - but I think you already did that

It seems to work well here with UGS NX 5.0.0.25

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:11 pm

rstadie,

Thanks, but thats exactly what we had which worked fine until NX5 came along.

However whatever you all did to the latest driver now allows to bounce the driver without disrupting NX5. So thanks a million for all of your hard work and support. I really appreciate it everyone.

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 11:57 am

Hi Everybody,
I'm back again with the same issue. We just got NX6 at work and it once again doesn't allow you to bounce the driver while NX6 is running. Maybe you guys already plan to include this in the next update. Anyways let me know if its a different problem. Thanks guys.

matrix · Post by **matrix** » Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:43 pm

Sorry Guys, I'm an idiot. Downloaded the newest release of the driver and everything is pretty. Sorry for the bother. Have a good day.

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