Presented at COE 2016, Michael Craffey takes ENOVIA v6 users through the paces with tips for better usability and productivity.

1. ENOVIA V6 R2013x
Tips & Tricks
Michael Craffey, Brian Lau
Razorleaf Corporation

2. ENOVIA V6 R2013x Tips & Tricks
• User – Tips
• Admin – System Tweaks
• Bonus
» Many work in 2014x and 2015x

3. USER TIPS
ENOVIA V6 R2013x

4. Search by Type & all Attributes (not just TNR)
• Search > Find Like…
» Only if you have Engineering Central
» ‘Find Like’ could be called ‘Attribute Search’?
- Any type searchable
• …even non Engineering Central types
• Default Type = Part
- All attributes are searchable
• Many operators
• Combo box of possible values
» Save your search!

6. Find only the CAD objects (not the Versioned objects!)
• Search only the latest Revision of CAD objects
» Filter out the ‘Versioned’ objects
• Use the ‘?’ single character wildcard
» Rev = ?
- Results: A, B, C, 1, 2, 3 (single value)
• Filtered out Versioned revs: ---, A.0, 0.1, C.3
» Rev = C.?
• Results: C.3

7. • All revs
» Includes
Versioned
objects
• Filter out
Versioned
objects
» Rev = ?
• Filter to latest
» Rev = ?
» Highest only

8. Notification and subscription services
• Subscribe to any object on any or all type specific
events
• Push a subscription to other people, so they will
get notifications on object events
» This is a great way to make sure people who need to
be involved in a project are getting notified when
content gets added to a folder or when a key document
changes.

9. • Subscribe to an
object from many
places
» Properties page
» Search results list
» List page
• Different types have
different subscription
events

10. Push subscription to others

11. Export to CSV
• Export the columns as set/seen to a CSV file
» Use for report
» Use for export to ERP input
- CSV file names are unique for each and every export

13. View & filter the history of every Business
Object
• Categories > History
» Filter
- Action
- FTS on all
other columns

16. Set Task Escalation
• Task due date notifications
» Route owner can have ENOVIA notify people of tasks
» Define relative time before or after the task due
date/time that notifications should be sent

17. Set Task Escalation
» Groups of people
- Task Assignee
• Original or a delegate
- Route Owner
- Workspace Lead(s)
• Workspace owner and all leads
- Project Lead(s)
• Project owner and all leads
» Times
- ‘-’ = Before due date
- ‘+’ = After due date

18. ADMIN TIPS
System Tweaks
ENOVIA V6 R2013x

19. Drag and drop new files into ENOVIA
• Enabling Drag and Drop Functionality
» For a better user experience in Document
Management

20. Drag and drop new files into ENOVIA
» C:TomcatwebappsenoviaWEB-INFclasses
- Create a file called emxFrameworkCustom.properties for these
properties
• emxFramework.UseApplet=true (allow drag and drop on Upload
Documents)
• emxFramework.UseDownloadApplet=true
» Modify the emxSystem.properties
- C:TomcatwebappsenoviaWEB-INFclasses
- add an entry
emxFramework.CustomProperties.Filename=emxFrameworkC
ustom.properties
» Stop/restart Tomcat

21. Increase login timeout from 30 to 60
minutes
• With a simple configuration change, you can
change the timeout to 60 minutes
» C:enovia2013xserverdistribenoviaWEB-
INFweb.xml
• Session-timeout = 60
» C:enovia2013xserverWin_b64ResourcesWarutilfra
gmentENOLiveCollaborationServer.liveCollaborationS
erver.web.xml.part

23. Accessing MQL Prompt from the UI
• Admin users can run MQL from the ‘Tools’ menu
on the top bar in the Enovia UI
» This is very useful to quickly run scripts,
add/view/modify/delete objects and schema, and
allows you to perform almost all Admin Tasks without
leaving the Web App

25. Some Interesting Commands
• List out all Workspaces
» temp query bus Workspace* * * select description;
• Quickly get a list of BO, ie Part
» temp query bus Part * *;
• Print out license details, dependencies, etc.
» print product DEC;

26. Control Search options
• emxSystem.properties

27. Configuring AutoVue to operate
• Some AutoVue pages may popup ok with the file,
but other places it won’t (no AV toolbars or file)
» Look closely at the url in the popup window
- It will show ‘ematrix’, the old default
acme.enovia.com/ematrix/servlet/C3DControllerSer…

28. Configuring AutoVue to operate
» Fix the file ‘emxSystem.properties’ in both:
- C:enoviaV6R2013serverSTAGINGematrixproperties
- C:enoviaV6R2013xserverdistribenoviaWEB-INFclasses
» emxFramework.Viewer.ServletPreFix=/ematrix/servlet/
» emxFramework.Viewer.ServletPreFix=/enovia/servlet/

29. Column Name Edit After Adding New Attribute
• The column name will change when a new
‘customer driven’ attribute is put in to place
» This displays as:
- Displays as ‘emxFramework.Attribute.Customer_PN’
• …propertiesemxFrameworkStringResource_en.properties
• Add: emxFramework.Attribute.Customer_PN=Customer_PN

30. Admin can change the default ‘Document’ TYPE to all
‘DOCUMENTS’ when searching to add content to a Route
• Change the file ‘emxComponents.properties’
• …properties
• …WEB-INFclasses
• Settings
• emxComponents.Routes.DefaultContentType = type_Document
• To
• emxComponents.Routes.DefaultContentType = type_DOCUMENTS

31. Set the ‘User Agent’ email to the corporate
email format, so it won’t be blocked
• The ‘User Agent’ is used to send notifications to users
from ENOVIA for subscriptions, routes, etc. Some
companies find that the emails are blocked if not using the
corporate email domain.
• In MQL
» mod person ‘User Agent’ email user_agent@acme.com
- Note: You don’t actually need a Windows ‘User Agent’

32. Setting up Email Server
• For Windows, add the following to ematrix.ini:
» MX_SMTP_HOST=MailName
• For UNIX, add the following to the mxEnv.sh
under rmi/scripts:
» MX_SMTP_HOST=MailName
- where MailName is the mail for your company, for example,
as20.chicago.acme.ws
• Test with MQL command:
» send mail to bob.smith;

33. NX GCO CGR Size Control
• The default mesh is too fine, and takes too long to generate
» cgr|surface_dist_tolerance=0.0001,surface_angular_tolerance=0.0,curve_
dist_tolerance=0.0001,curve_angular_tolerance=0.0,delete_on_checkin=
yes
• Change the values for less detail, but faster
» cgr|surface_dist_tolerance=0.01,surface_angular_tolerance=0.1,curve_di
st_tolerance=0.01, curve_angular_tolerance=0.1,delete_on_checkin=yes

34. Q&A