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    Automatic 3D Centerline in NX 11.0.2 on Projected view coming out to be longer?

    Good Morning to All, I have been facing a weird issue since the start of the day today. The Automatic 3D Centerline on the Projected view is coming out to be way long as shown in the below images. I checked my customer default settings and I do not find any issues there. I have attached images...
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    File prompts for Save even if there are no changes made NX 11.0.2

    I tried the normal save. This is the code that is working in my case Sub sSavePart() Dim objPartSaveStatus As PartSaveStatus = Nothing For each objPart As part In FnGetNxSession.Parts() 'Check if the part is modified If...
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    File prompts for Save even if there are no changes made NX 11.0.2

    Thank you, Jerry. This issue has been driving me nuts since past 2 days and I finally thought someone in this forum might have an answer to my pain.
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    File prompts for Save even if there are no changes made NX 11.0.2

    Hello Everyone, I have an assembly on which I run a custom NXOpen application. At the end, I am doing a programmatic Save All. NX is prompting me to save certain read-only files which I am not even touching inside my program. On checking the Part Modification History Information -> Part ->...
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    Close Isolation Window in NX 12 using NXOpen?

    Hello Everyone, Hope all of you had a nice long weekend! I have something cropping up today and I have been trying to find a solution since morning. In NX 12, a new window opens as a tabbed page (similar to chrome). How can I close any opened new windows using NXOpen? I also need a way to...
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    NXOpen: Determine Point at Minimum Distance between 2 Solid Body to identify MultipleTouching Faces?

    Hello Everyone, I am using .AskMinimumDist method to return 2 points on 2 different bodies, I am then using these 2 points to calculate a vector and use the vector in the .TraceARay method to return the faces that are hit. I am doing all this to reduce runtime in computing mating faces between...
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    Place a Pattern (Title Block) using NXOpen?

    Hello Everyone, I have been struggling with a customer requirement lately. Has anyone over here worked with Patterns in Drawing? The customer wants me to add the Title Block as a Pattern. If I am trying to manually add the customer Pattern Part File using File--> Import, Groups are getting...
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    Load custom Drawing Template in an NXOpen application fired using run_managed.exe?

    Hello Everyone, I have a custom Drawing Template and its corresponding PAX file in a custom folder outside the NX installation folder. I am launching an NXOpen application using run_managed. I would like to use this Drawing template within the application but it is throwing an error. I am also...
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    Identify partially visible edges in 2D Drawing using NXOpen?

    Opening this thread again as I am still hopeful of finding an answer. Thanks, Amitabh
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    run_managed.exe issue on NX 11.0.2?

    Hello Everyone, I wish all of you a Happy New Year 2018. One of my applications uses Run_Managed.exe to execute a list of NXOpen batch applications. Recently I migrated to NX 11 for one of my customers and I have been facing an issue with the run_managed.exe application. I am getting the...
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    Identify all faces in an assembly with a given color (NXOpen)?

    Hello Everyone, Is there a way to get all the faces in an assembly which are having a given color (for example, all the blue faces) without having to loop through the different bodies and faces (maybe by using NX rules)? I am looking for a run-time efficient solution. Thank you, Amitabh
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    Identify partially visible edges in 2D Drawing using NXOpen?

    I did not get a response to this thread. I am still struggling with this requirement. Please let me know if you need more information. Please help! Thank you, Amitabh
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    Identify partially visible edges in 2D Drawing using NXOpen?

    Hello Everyone, I have been struggling with this the entire day. Is there any NXOpen API that provides if an edge is partially visible in 2D Drawing? I have been looking at 2 API's AskVdeData and UFSo.AskVisibilityOpt but none of them tells me if an edge is partially visible. There is no View...
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    View Dependent Edit query using NXOpen in NX 11?

    Hi Friends, I have a piece of code which is working perfectly fine in NX9 but the same piece of code is throwing a problem on NX11 :( The code takes as input a view in which it performs view dependent edit on certain edges (within a given face) to make it visible as dashed line in the drawing...

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