Where to place your pictures:

• The root directory on the server is S:/WDMACS/PIC/CDFMCS/ (Be sure to mount the server as the S: drive).  You'll either find a subdirectory for your system here or you will need to create one (contact Sam Segler, Margherita Vittone Wiersma, or Mike Kirk for help). You should place all of the system pictures in this directory. It is helpful to create a mirror directory path on your C:/ drive on your local PC. If you need a user account on the server in order to copy pictures, see Sam Segler or Bill Noe. Having a mirror directory on your local PC will enable you to toggle the source of pictures when you run Fix between the server and your local PC without changing the picture path. In addition, you can then edit the pictures in your /subsystem/ directory and copy the whole directory to the server when you have checked the modifications. This will ensure that pictures on the server are always available for other users to view.
  
  




Where to place your tag group files

• A 'new' feature of Fix Dynamics 2.1 is the requirement that all tag group definition files be placed in the picture path. Thus, all TGD files should be placed in the root directory on the server S:/WDMACS/PIC/CDFMCS/.

  How to make global variables work

• Global variables need to be defined in the user.fxg file that resides in your picture path directory. Thus the user.fxg file that resides in the root directory of the server needs to contain all global variable definitions. The only way to do this (Intellution is apparently aware of the inconvenience and is working on a solution to allow the merging of user.fxg files) is to point your picture path to the server, then from the system tree in the Workspace define the variables that are used in your pictures. To ensure that you can view other subsystem pictures, be sure to copy the user.fxg file to your root picture directory on the C: drive after adding your variables.

  Recommendations

• Any additions or corrections are welcome please send email.

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  Michael Kirk
  Last modified: Mon Oct 11 11:25:09 CDT 1999