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Can anyone shed any light on how to control entity colours when exporting a drawing to dwg using the 2d exchange exporter? I have a drawing and I want everything to be black in the exported file. I have made everything black inside NX but when the dwg is opened in AutoCAD, the colours of some...

Hi JCB, This is my effort(NX5). Not perfect by any stretch, but built on top of what you already have. Hopefully it illustrates an alternative way of splitting those surfaces. If I was doing it properly, I would create some additional curves before the surfaces that control the high point...

If SW can open a pro/e part you can bet your bottom dollar that it will come in as a dumb solid or surfaces rather than a feature history supported model. In most cases these types of translators are simply automating the process of translation via an intermediate format such as step anyway. The...

Can't be done I'm afraid. Your only options are to use a dumb format like iges or step, or alternatively re-model the part in SW.

I have just had this problem myself and, taking the vague reference provided by potrero, I decided to nose around the license file for clues. I found that each line in the license file beginning PACKAGE or INCREMENT contains the expression 24.0. So I changed each occurence to 24.000 and sure...

I once had a new machine that was fine spinning 3D parts around but really struggled when in sketcher (very slow to update the display, sluggish performance). It had an Nvidia graphics card (don't remember which model). I simply downloaded and installed the latest driver from the Nvidia website...

Still waiting for my license 2 weeks after requesting it throught my VAR. Admittedly, we are also transferring products to a new server but Siemens really are behind the game with this process. We also run Pro/E and I can request a new license online and even transfer licenses to a new server...

License borrowing is free. When PTC issue licenses they issue two versions of the license file. One has borrowing enabled and the other does not. So as long as your license server is operating with the borrowable license then you should be able to run the proe_borrow utility in the /bin...

In case anyone does have the same problem, I have found a workaround although I still don't know what the route cause of the problem is. Workaround: Even though when installing, it returned a message saying no flexlm licenses had been found at the specified location, I went ahead and installed...

Probably you have some mouse driver software that has set an alternative function to the middle button. I get this all the time with new machines. I would suggest either open the mouse panel from control panel and look for somewhere where you can change the button assignment. It should be set as...

Hi Guys, Hopefully someone can help. We have a Win 2K license server running a borrowable WF4 license under a WF3 version of the license server software. I have many client machines which are able to connect to the license server successfully and run either WF2 or WF3. I also have a couple of...

I use zip gaps to fix mis-matched surface edges where 2 surfaces need to meet exactly but sometimes there can be a tiny gap between the two edges. Use 'max gap dist' option to enter the largest gap to attempt to fix (eg. 0.1mm - it depends on the size of the part). I then use 'auto-select' to...

You can't do anything with ISDX that cannot be done with Pro/Surface from a geometric point of view, but once you get used to ISDX it can be quicker and the 'realtime' visual feedback is much better. You can change a curve and instantly see the results rather than having to regenerate, tweak...

I just wanted to say that I made the switch from Pro/E to NX several years ago and, although some things are initially more difficult, on the whole NX is a far easier system to use, it is more flexible and more enjoyable. You will soon learn to disregard the Pro/E way of working and learn how NX...

Hi Hudson, I have been using NX on a Dell Precision M60 laptop for the last 3 years. It's due an upgrade now (probably to a Dell Precision M4300) but I have found it to be an extremely capable machine for my work. Granted, as an industrial designer, I usually only design products with tens...

Hi djkatt, I've been playing around and you are right. It seems that if you open a file from Gateway, it will open in the application it was last saved in, however if you open the same file from within a different application, then it opens in that application. I have never noticed this before...

Hi djkatt, As a single .prt file can contain any combination of 3D part, assembly or drawing data how would NX determine what application to open it into? I think the current system where it opens in the application in which it was last saved is more suitable. If you are creating your drawings...

I don't use layers anymore anyway. Hide/show works perfectly for me. To be honest, I find the implementation of layers in UG to be quite confusing compared to other CAD systems. It's a pain having to refer to them by number all the time when in other systems you can name them and refer to them...

Interesting. My experience is the opposite. NX5 seems much more responsive and doesn't suffer from the frequent lock-ups I seem to get with 4.

Thanks for the info John. I'll give it a try.