Managing user privileges and document locations
QY CAD Administrator gives you the opportunity to define corporate policies and makes it easy to make changes to these policies. With QY CAD Administrator, you can deliver all settings on first use and every QY CAD user realizes the settings automatically.
Running QY CAD Administrator
The QY CAD Administrator, SEAdmin.exe, is available from the UDS Support Center at https://support.sw.UDS.com/en-US. Before you run the executable, you must copy it to the \Program Files\UDS\QY CAD 2022\Program folder on your computer.
You can run the executable by double-clicking SEAdmin.exe. This displays the QY CAD Administrator dialog box, which contains a list of all of the options you can set along with default values for the appropriate options, and the environment in which the option is applicable. The Allow Override field on the dialog box controls whether or not users can override the option. If you set the value to No, the option is disabled in QY CAD and users will not be able to change its value.
Once you set the option overrides, you can use the Save As command to save the options to the configuration file, Options.xml. You can change the name and the default location of the configuration file. It can be placed on a network share where all users have read permissions. You can also create multiple configuration files to meet your needs. For example, you might want to create one configuration file for your engineers and a separate file for your shop floor personnel. The configuration file can store option settings for multiple versions of QY CAD.
The default Options.xml file delivered with QY CAD inherits the security settings of the parent folder. Therefore only Administrators can edit this file. Administrators should set the permissions of Options.xml to allow the non-administrative users write access to this file on all client machines so that the settings can be applied.
Once you save the configuration file, you can instruct users to set the QY CAD Administrator value on the File Locations tab of the QY CAD Options dialog box to point to the appropriate configuration file. The default location for the configuration file is the QY CAD Preferences folder. However, users can use the Modify button on the Options dialog box to specify another location for the file.
The first time you set the QY CAD Administrator option to point to an Options.xml file, all of the option settings, including the Allow Override options that are set to yes, are applied. This enables the administrator to deliver all the options on first use, and then allows the user to change settings based on the definition within Solid Edge Administrator.
If the Options.xml file is held on a shared drive and the share changes drives, the Options.xml file is considered a new file and all of the option settings are applied on first use.
If you need to make changes to the configuration file, run SEAdmin.exe. When the QY CAD Administrator dialog box is displayed, on the File menu, click Open. On the Open dialog box, open the configuration file, make the appropriate changes to the file, and save the file. After saving the configuration file, instruct users to update to the new configuration file.
After you run SEAdmin.exe the first time, it opens the last configuration file that you saved.
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