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    NX Create new component NX 1953

    When using the "create new component" , I.e i have a part which I want to make into an assembly by moving an existing solid from this part to a new component file, NX no longer prompts for the new component name. NX 1953. Is this a customer default setting ? Environment variable ? Its highly...
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    Logitech MX Anywhere 2

    My beloved Logitech M125 broke. Pressing the wheel no longer does MB2. So i bought a Logitech MX Anywhere2 ( Without the "s") - It got a 5 ranking in the thread: thread561-400707 which i found promising. But, Pressing the wheel does not do "middle mouse button" ( MB2) Is it only me / my...
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    select by entering tag number or entity number ?

    I dont know if this has been up before or not. Difficult to search . anyhow, i can read in my NX logfile that either : "entity[58611] blablabla" or "blablabla body (tag: 39539)" has something wrong . something is obviously wrong with entity xx or tag yy now i am curious on which these...
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    Assign render materials using Journal ?

    I am posting this question on this forum also, hoping to find new readers... :-) Any tips on workarounds to assign , say "steel", to a body/all bodies in the work part using a journal ? Note: Render materials. The "engineering materials" are no problem to assign using a journal. The render...
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    Log files from NX journals ?

    I am running a journal created by a colleague who has left the company. The Journal replaces drawing borders. On some drawings the journal will crash due to it selecting something "illegal". The NX logfile shows nothing of what the Journal does. is there a way to get a logfile ? Regards, Tomas
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    large stepfile, will it finish ?

    Hi guys, I have started converting a step file to NX. The step file is ~331 MB. The conversion has been running since 17:40 Thursday this week, now almost 2 full days. ( ~44 hours by now) The process , step214ug.exe, seen in the task manager is using ~8.6 GB memory and increasing. Do you...
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    Simple way to create spline normal to face? , NX7.5

    I got the question on how to, fast & simple, create a spline which is normal to a face in both ends. See attached example. The example is "exaggerated" to illustrate the question. In one end of the spline it should start at the end of the lines on top of the block, normal to the block, in the...
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    how to start a specific version of Excel from NX?

    In my company, we have 3 versions of Excel, all possible to start and use. (- Don't ask me how it's done) we have Excel 2003, Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 where the 2013 is a new, forced , install. ( We cannot avoid it.) The problem is that NX7.5 which we use works ok with Excel 2010 but not...
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    NX10 Zoom direction

    John, I'm playing around with the NX10 Beta release. ( 10.0.0.13) I note that the "zoom direction" is reversed.( I know that it can be changed back to the pre-NX10 direction.) It would be interesting to hear the story why this change. ( I'm not saying that one direction is more logical than the...
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    Display "hidden text" from note on screen ?

    Hi All, I'm editing drawing templates... ( Yes, ...) Since we run in "managed mode" almost all the text in the drawing heads are mapped to an attribute, similar to <W@DB_PART_NAME> and when the template is used it will display the Part name, " abcd1234" or whatever. Now I need to verify...
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    Set the size of NX graphics window, pixels x pixels ?

    Does anybody know a way to adjust the size of the graphics window to a specific size in pixels ? I am currently creating a few training exercises for in-house use. Doing this i found that if i set the graphics window to say 320x250 pixels , i will get consistent good images for the exercise...
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    How to find &quot;not-attached&quot; ballons on drawings ?

    Hi, If I use manual ID-symbols ( i.e balloons) with a partslist, the balloon will update according to the corresponding line in the partslist. If , for some reason "somebody has been cheating" and placed a non-attached balloon and manually entered some number in the balloon, the balloon will...
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    ? in note mapped to attribute ?

    Hi, When updating our drawing templates , ( Teamcenter managed mode ) i observed that some "notes" on the drawing sheet that are mapped to attributes contain a "?" and some don't. Lets say that i map a note to display the "CREATED_BY" attribute. Then the syntax in the note would be...
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    Stacking Annotations hotkey ?

    When placing/ dragging annotations on drawings, ( NX7.5.x) annotations will "stack" when dragged on top of an existing annotation. Is there a hotkey to activate the stacking mode ? - It takes some fiddling around to make NX activate the stacking mode and a hotkey would simplify the action. (...
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    UGZIPC Win7 solution found

    Hi All, i have been struggling with the fantastic "UG Zip" from http://www.w-eng.de/ugzipc.htm Where it "should run" on Win7 64 but does not... It seems there might be two possible reasons, either it needs a developer license ( -which is why it runs fine for John Baker) or there is a problem...
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    The old edit curve parameters dialog in NX7.5 ?

    I am looking at NX8 and realized that the "old edit curve main dialog" is replaced with a new, brief one. Then looked at NX7.5 and saw that the change appeared there too. ( NX6 has the old dialog) Since i support users, i'm quite sure that I , sooner or later, will receive the opinion that...
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    How to list mass in different unit in the Partslist ?

    In the NX partslist, one can add a column that reports the weight that NX calculates on save,( File - Options- save options - Generate Weight Data) Select the Parts list column - Style - Columns - select the button "Attribute Names" ( second line in the dialog) select "$MASS" - OK - OK But...

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