Build Failure: Could not transfer artifact org.pentaho:pentaho-parent-pom:xml:site_en:7.1.0.0-12 from/to central

[vardantandon]

I tried to download the pdi-sdk-plugins-7.1.0.0 and ran mvn clean package site but I end up getting the error stated in the heading. I already had an existing settings.xml but I downloaded the setting.xml which specifies the new repository http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni/ and renamed it in the .m2 folder and made the project point to this setting instead. End up getting the same error and again it seems to be downloading from an artifactory url. In addition, I copied the repository tags from the latest sdk 8.0.0 in the pom.xml :

 <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>pentaho-public</id>
      <name>Pentaho Public</name>
      <url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni/</url>
      <releases>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy>
      </releases>
      <snapshots>
        <enabled>true</enabled>
        <updatePolicy>interval:15</updatePolicy>
      </snapshots>
    </repository>
  </repositories>

Same problem again, however this time it does seem to download from nexus also !
Is there any way I can override the repository it is downloading the dependencies from such that it only downloads from nexus and not artifactory. ?

Thanks !