NX Setting a customized drafting standard

How can you setup a custom drafting standard and point to it for all users?

When creating a new standard-sized drawing or sheet, the annotation preferences modified previously on a different drawing are defaulted back to what they were before. Solution --------------- You can manipulate and "save as" to the out-of-the-box drafting standards in the customer defaults of NX. If you do not use sheet/drawing templates, you will want to modify the existing drafting standard to create a new customized one, utilizing the preferences for example, annotation font for lettering. Otherwise, the preferences are resetting back to the drafting standard that isbeing used, like out of the box ASME or ISO. From File -> Utilities -> Customer Defaults, expand Drafting, and choose General. Select the Standard Tab. Choose Customize Standard. Make appropriate changes; for example in the Annotation lettering tab you can type in a different font to use. Save As to the standard, and set it as the default to use. If you are pulling drafting preferences from Standard rather than Templates, the next drawing you create should show you those changes. The standard to load can be modified from Tools-Drafting standard. If you open a part file, the standards that were set are remembered in the file. To inherit the settings in your Custom Standard, when any dialog is opened to modify a setting, expand the Inherit section at the bottom and select the Customer Defaults option. The preferences will be modified to your Custom Standard: To point to a common standard, set the following variable: UGII_DRAFTING_STANDARD_DIR = <path> Used to locate all the pre-defined drafting standard files which contains all the drafting standard controlled customer defaults. The files format is *.dpv file.