This error message is relatively common when installing older versions of Maple on newer versions of Windows. To remedy the problem, first ensure that you have an up-to-date, full installer file. Then, execute the installer with administrative privileges in Compatibility Mode:. Right-click the installation file and select ' Properties'. Click the ‘ Compatibility’ tab. Check the box next to ‘ Run this program in compatibility mode for’ and select the from the drop-down menu. Click ‘ Apply’.
Installer User Interface Mode Not Supported The installer cannot run in this UI mode. To specify the interface mode, use the -i command-line option, followed by the UI mode identifier. The valid UI modes identifiers are GUI, Console, and Silent.
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While the option that TomMtz has pointed out is fully supported and is provided so that users can still use NX with a pre-NX 9.0 user interface, may I advise all of you to NOT become to content with running NX 9.0 in the so-called 'Classic' mode as those days are numbered. You're safe for NX 9.0 and NX 10.0, but after that, ALL BETS ARE OFF!!!
Now you can never say that you were not warned John R. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Mechanical) 28 Nov 13 09:07. And if the people who make buying decisions when it comes to major software purchases deems whatever this 'new scheme' is as being the way they expect all new and modern software products should look and feel like, then I guess we'll have no choice but to consider making yet another change. Trust me, contrary to what you might think, the changes in the UI that we have made over the years (and remember that I've seen 36+ years of those changes) not one of them were undertaken based solely on a decision by our developers or even our management, just for the sake of making changes. Everyone of them was based on pressure from the software marketplace and as a result of changes made by either hardware or software vendors who's efforts were seen as setting a new standard in what people came to expect when purchasing a new piece of software. And while we would like to think that we're some sort of pioneer in much of what is eeen as the PLM industry, in the area of User Interfaces, we have generally only taken-on making changes AFTER it had already become obvious that to not do so would have been detrimental to our being able to continue to win new business or to retain those customers which we had already sold our software products to. The 'cost' of making User Interface changes is NOT limited to just the 'retraining' costs borne by of customers but also by our company in both the development effort itself, but also in the internal 'retraining' costs as well what it cost to update user documentation and training materials used by our instructors.
We never start one of these efforts without a very careful consideration of all of the 'players' who will be impacted or what sorts of costs will have to be covered, but to not do so would also result in 'costs' as well and these are also a part of this equation. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc. Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Mechanical). John, I am all with you in all aspects and have a full understanding of the market 'rules' and the accompanied costs, both on Siemens side as well as our, the customer, side. And as you say between the lines, 'we have to follow the stream'.
My rant is really not against Siemens, but MicroS. The sad thing is that Microsoft has launched a completely new scheme which isn't better by nature than the previous UIF. Now Siemens has overcame a number of the weaknesses in this, by for example the command finder, by allowing extensive customization, keeping the 'old text menu structure' etc etc.
I am not that happy about 'making changes for the sake of the change', -If the change doesn't enhance the product, don't fix it. Another note on the Ribbon bar compared to the 'Old text menu structure' ( thank god it still exists in NX9.) is phone support, imagine trying to aid somebody on the ribbon bar over the phone,: 'Now there should be a tab named xx,- is there?, ok you have to right click and enable the tab, in that there should be a square with a tiny arrow, no, -the arrow should should point down, click that arrow, -what does it read, -no you have to find another arrow, and so on. Whilst in the 'old text menu structure' one can write or say things like: Insert - Associative copy - Instance Geometry - Mirror etc etc. Regards, Tomas RE: NX9 Toolbars (Mechanical) 28 Nov 13 11:41.I found the ribbon interface difficult at first however stick with it, take the time to learn all the customization tricks you can use, you'll find it MUCH faster to use than pull-down menus, I did. There's your problem right there! Using a drawing board is faster then using pulldown menu's! But the issue isn't the issue of comparing Ribbon with PullDowns.
Its comparing with ToolBars. And there is no way in hell its quicker then those.
Its impossible (simply because your having to do more work with the clicker). Now i don't want to get into the whole debate as we've been there done that in an NX9 thread and i (and a few others) made the points very clear of what slows 'The Ribbon' down and it is irrefutable. Explained (eventually). Its a decision based not on actual usability. Of course having said all that Siemen's is by far the best ever first implementation of the Ribbon i have ever seen (hell, it beats most 50th implementations i've seen!). Which just makes it bearable to use for someone that gets real sick of clicking way more then one needs to (read: for pointless reasons). RE: NX9 Toolbars (Marine/Ocean) 2 Dec 13 12:54.
As a follow-up to my earlier comment on the fact that Siemens PLM will only be supporting the option to revert to the so-called 'classic' toolbar User Interface through NX 10.0, for those of you with access to the GTAC support site, there is a Software Field Bulletin (SFB-NX-7793 issued on November 22, 2013) which articulates this in more detail. In other words, it makes this the official position of the company and not just something I included in a comment as part of a response to someone's question on a public forum. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc. Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Mechanical) 3 Dec 13 03:39.
I was a full screen mode use in NX 7.5 I used the alt button and the scroll wheel on my mouse to glide between the menus with ease and ulta efficiency and I, this has become less efficient in 9 as I can't see what menu is coming next without clickin on the top to deplay the ribbon. Word, Excel, Power point, Publisher have a couple of hundred commands between them, NX has 3500 live commands, I'd prefer to be a shepherd rather than a sheep. Watch this video and tell me if this isn't the model of simplicity it's self. Such a shame. Best regards Simon NX 7.5.4.4 MP8 and NX 8.5 (native) - TC 8 RE: NX9 Toolbars (Marine/Ocean) 3 Dec 13 12:06. Simon, have you tried the new 'Minimize Ribbon' option (the ' ^' icon next to the Full Screen icon)?
Granted, this does not free-up as much screen real estate as does the 'Full Screen' mode but it does make it easier to get at the various Ribbon and Resource Bar tools while still gaining additional graphic window space. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars. As has been explained before, the large icons found on the NX 9.0 ribbon bar itself will always include text. The NX ribbon is ONE large icon high so even if you COULD toggle OFF the text, there would not be sufficient space there for anything else, so we might as well leave the text on as it does help with 'discoverability', something for which modern User Interfaces are now being rated with respect to. Note that Small icons seen on the Ribbon itself can have text or not, but large icons will always have text. Of course, you could always replace the large icons w/text with a 'Gallery' which can have either small, medium or large icons, with or WITHOUT text.
In that way you could still sort of 'Have Your Cake (large icons) and Eat It Too (no added text)' as shown below: A normal ribbon layout showing large icons w/text on the ribbon itself: The same arrangement of icons only now as part of 'Gallery' created using the Customization tools where large icons can be sans text: John R. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc. Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Computer) 3 Dec 13 18:25. Hi John I have found that, but it's the loss of the function of the ALT button to bring the menu to my cursor whilst being able to see each tab so I can quickly zip through with my scroll wheel that I find disapointing.
There is plenty of screen space for me in normal mode, I have 2 giant monitors. I just find that I have lost efficiency and simplicity/clarity with the new interface. I even sent a presention to your team in Cypress upon request of Adrian Fraser because I had pounded his ears after copious amounts of red wine detailing how I would have like to see the interface develop, I have attached it here, think Apple scroll wheels. Cheers Si Best regards Simon NX 7.5.4.4 MP8 and NX 8.5 (native) - TC 8. RE: NX9 Toolbars. First a general comment and then some new ideas that you can try today. First off, our User Interface people have been following this and other threads on the various help sites, looking at the PR's/ER's coming in, as well as digesting what we learned during beta testing.
That being said, I just spent some time looking at what's being done for NX 10.0 and it would appear that a large number of the issues that have recently been raised with respect to both the Ribbon interface in general and such things as improved access to functions when working in full-screen mode, are being addressed. This was what we had expected would happen, that it would take some real-world usage and feedback before we would learn what we needed to look at when our first real chance to make significant changes came around, which in this case will be NX 10.0, which will be available about this time next year. Now during this session today I did learn a couple of things that may help when working with this new 'Minimized Ribbon' mode now in NX 9.0. For one thing, when I first suggested using the 'Minimize Ribbon' option it was pointed out to me that this was still not optimal, but I think I can help with that. I have made a habit (from the Autocad days for me) of learning most of the commands VIA keyboard inputs.
The commands do not change to much. This way it takes all of the clicking thru many different icons etc. Out of the workflow. Most of the repetitvie commands 'c' for constraints or 'd' for infer dimensions I use all the time. My point is that I do not really notice if the user interface changes, all I care is that the commands get mapped to my shortcut keys from new NX release to new NX release.
For new users the UI is what they see and use. So they will not know any thing but the new interface.
Sometimes letting go of the same click click click habit, sequence, routines to do a task is a struggle for some users that use this software day in day out. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Aeronautics) 6 Dec 13 10:41.but (imho) both NX and Catia still carry some baggage from previous versions, that solidworks (and se) do not. That's because UG/NX and Catia actually has 'baggage' to carry as both products have been around, in one form or another, for better than twice as long as has either SolidWorks or Solid Edge even existed (I've personally been using UG/NX for over 36 years). And don't forget that SolidWorks and Solid Edge have ONLY ever had to run on Windows-based systems while both UG/NX and Catia have evolved over the years first from proprietary mainframe-based systems to UNIX to Windows and at least in the case of NX, still supports LINUX. And with that 'baggage' comes responsibilities and customer obligations.
For example, I carry with me a part file, complete with a J-size Drawing sheet, which was last saved in UG V9.1 back in 1993, years before SolidWorks or Solid Edge was even a wild idea in someone's mind and yet I can open that part file, without any sort of explicit conversion operation, in the latest version of NX (I just now tested this in NX 9.0.1.3 and it opened in seconds and all the data is still there as valid and accurate as it was 20 years ago). I've hung onto this file just to make that point if and when someone asks how far back does NX support legacy part files. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc. Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Aeronautics) 10 Dec 13 03:03.
Exactly what screen resolution are you running or how small have you sized the NX window? It looks like you've scrunched the NX window so small that everything is being pushed together more than anyone assumed users would be running NX. I've done lots of demos on 1280 x 1024 displays (the max resolution of most projection systems), which is considered by many people to be the minimum acceptable display resolution, and I've never seen my tabs jammed together that tight. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc. Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Aeronautics) 11 Dec 13 02:20.
But is it reasonable that you would have all the tabs enabled at once or that you'd run with that small of a window? Besides, you could create multiple 'Roles', each with it's own set of 'tabs' for when you're running at a smaller than normal window. I used to do that with older versions of NX, having setup a 'Role' for when running NX with a projector so that no toolbar icons would get removed when you went from full resolution down to 1280 x 1024, something which is NOT an issue with NX 9.0 since there are no fixed-length toolbars. Product 'Evangelist' Product Engineering Software Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector Cypress, CA To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. RE: NX9 Toolbars (Mechanical) 11 Dec 13 16:12.