Environment Variables

VCollab Suite creates 3 Environment Variables during installation. Variables Values VCOLLAB_DIR Installation_Directory PATH Installation_Directory\VCollabPro64;Installation_Directory\VCollabPresenter32;Installation_Directory\VCollabPresenter64 VE3D_LICENSE_FILE Installation_Directory\License If any of the above Environment variables is deleted, VCollab may not work. In addition to the above variables, the Environment variable, VCOLLAB_TEMP_PATH can manually be set, if required. It can be any temporary directory which will be used by VCollab Pro for temporary files. The “Current User Profile Directory” is used as the default temporary directory by VCollab, if this variable is not set. This Environment variable can be defined in User Environment Variables. Users need to make sure they have both read and write permission to the path specified here else VCOllab Pro may not function properly.

Steps to Set Environment Variables in Windows Go to the Start menu → Settings–>. Control Panel to open the Control Panel window. Click Advanced system settings to open System Properties dialog box Click the Advanced tab.

• Click the Environment Variables button to open the Environment Variables window.

• Click New which opens the New System Variable window as below.

• Enter VCOLLAB_TEMP_PATH as variable name and the temporary VCollab path as Variable value and click OK.

License File Setup

The Environment Variable VE3D_LICENSE_FILE is set along with System Variables at the time of installation as follows

VE3D_LICENSE_FILE Installation_Directory\License

The Node Lock licensed products of VCollab will run automatically, if the license file is copied to the Installation_Directory\License folder. If the user wants to keep the license file in some other folder, then the Environment variable (VE3D_LICENSE_FILE) should be changed to reflect the correct file path.

Eg: VE3D_LICENSE_FILE License_File_Path

For a Floating license, the Environment variable should point to the path where the License Server is running.

Eg: VE3D_LICENSE_FILE @License_Server_Machine_name

As a special case, if the user wants to run Node lock and floating applications of VCollab products in the same machine, then the environment variable should be set with both the paths. By default, the variable contains the node lock license file path as specified above. For specifying the floating license server path, the user should select the existing VE3D_LICENSE_FILE variable and append the license server path

Eg: VE3D_LICENSE_FILE NodeLock_License_FilePath;@License_Server_Machine_name

If the user doesn’t have privileges to change the System Variable for licensing, then the user can create a variable VE3D_LICENSE_FILE under User variables and set the value for the floating license as follows.

Eg: VE3D_LICENSE_FILE @License_Server_Machine_name

Setting up the Environment Variables manually

If the user doesn’t have installation permission, then the user can copy VCollab files from some other machine, where VCollab products are installed. In that case, the above mentioned Environment Variables need to be set manually.

Eg: If the VCollab files are copied into D:\VCollab, then the environment variables should be manually set as follows

1. VCOLLAB_DIR - D:\VCollab

2. PATH - D:\VCollab\VCollabPro32;D:\VCollab\VCollabPresenter32;D:\VCollab\VCollabPresenter64

3. VE3D_LICENSE_FILE- D:\VCollab\License

4. VCOLLAB_TEMP_PATH can be any temporary directory which will be used by VCollab. The “Current User Profile Directory” will be set as default temporary directory by VCollab, if this variable is not set.

Environment Variables for Visualization

S.No.	Environment Variable	Description	Value
1	VCOLLAB_FORCE_OGL	This variable sets OpenGL 1.1 as scene renderer.	1
	VCT_COLORPLOT_OFF	This variable commands the loader not to load results by default. Results can, however, be loaded on demand.	1
	VCOLLAB_CAPTURE_IMAGE	This variable captures an image and uses it for Microsoft PPT embed preview.	1
	VCOLLAB_USE_OGL_AMBIENT	There is an ambient color issue in case of openGL mode for some models as shown below. This can be fixed by setting this environment variable.	1
	VCOLLAB_FORCE_OGLIMAGE	If the application is consuming more than 2GB memory, saving an image file can sometimes cause the application to crash. This can be fixed by setting the environment variable VCOLLAB_FORCE_OGLIMAGE. Note: When running VCollabImageGenerator.exe, if VCOLLAB_FORCE_OGLIMAGE is set, the background color cannot be changed. Only the default color is used.	1
	VCOLLAB_PROFILE_PATH	If the user profile folder path contains Unicode characters, the Profile cannot be saved. This can be fixed by setting this environment variable with ascii folder path.	User defined ascii folder path.