If you can find a supplier with an onboard manufacturing engineer, then you will have a lot more latitude in knocking down the cost. I have dealt with one fabricator who consistently priced at 20-30% of (yes, that's "of") their lowest-bidding competitor because the manufacturing engineer worked...
Like I said before - it all comes down to I/O - just like the days in machine design, this defines a machine's capability. To give you an idea of how much I/O a human is capable of, just watch my old neighbor Paul Todd (formerly Paul Lagergren) on Youtube playing the organ. Here you can witness...
Hmmmm - the "mind tapper"....I don't know if I want to shave my head....
Too bad the article didn't have any nuggets for the techies - note the glaring omission of I/O. It makes one question whether the article is a fake...
As far as I know, we have 20 really fast I/0 - fingers and toes. I...
Your attempt to embarrass us "nuckle draggers" with an image of a PFK will not work. Just the other night I saw a partially-disabled man confined to a wheelchair who was forced to use a mouse to type. He would move the mouse and click on each letter of the alphabet on a screen-keyboard...
Grouping could re-coup some time (even though it's a band-aid); unfortunately, grouping was one of the first dialogs to lose the 10-kepad capability (I believe in NX2). I must assume it has not been fixed. You see, I never get used to all the slow downs - I vividly remember them as big hurdles...
I understand your need to appeal to a wide customer base, and from my experience, that is the edict of big corporations, like Siemens. Market share must be maximized based on the opinion of marketing people. "Make the interface generic and look good" (menu accelerators have no looks at all)...
J.B. said "not focusing on how to preserve obsolete and out-dated behaviors while trying to keep our products both competitive and easy to learn and use. To expect us to do otherwise would be naive at best. "
I guess the TASK IS OVER when the CAD system decides, not the designer decides...
Sorry - I left mousclicks out, here is how the work analysis should read:
Nx6 - 16 steps, 6 back-and-forth eyeball moves and 17 mouse clicks
NX4/NX5 - 9 steps, 0 back-and forth eyeball moves and 5 mouse clicks.
I am very disappointed that all of the menu accelerators have now been deleted from the dialogs. I am guessing that 90% of all design activity occurs within these dialogs.
My only question to the NX6 developers is "why"? Why couldn't you keep the accelerators there? Clearly, the...
I think this speaks for itself. Without trying to hijack this thread, I want to briefly review what would be done in NX4/NX5:
> Ctrl T
> Pick Objects, middle mouse button when complete (eyes on model)
> 10-key pad 3-7 (eyes still on model)
> Pick arc center
> enter angle increment in default...
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> Move eyes back to model to click on proper csys "ball"
> Zoom in to view motion
> Mouse over to register to type in an increment to move
> Hit enter button multiple times until object is moved to the right position
> Move eyes over to dialog box and mouse to "apply"...
Well, I spent a bit of time with 3 different GTAC people to get to the bottom of the Move Object function in NX6.
In this example I am attempting to rotate a bunch of objects around and arc center, then changing to rotating them via the three-point method:
> Edit object display (change color of...
Well, I got NX6 running and just spent 40 minutes trying to move objects around. I have not found a way to Transform-move and keep the object selected - it makes me start over every time. So much for "sneaking up" on stuff with conceptual modeling. I'll also be looking for a work-around on...
PHayden:
Thanks for the words of encouragement! I have been using the "dynamic modeling" method for 25 years now. History-free conceptual modeling before "locking down" sketch-driven solids has for me been the ultimate productiviy tool in design. I will still have to shake NX6 out in the...
Stretch is a fast and wonderful tool, but it doesn't have Scale, rotate about a point (from a point and to point), reposition, etc. I am deeply concerned about the elimination of Tranform. Whatever tool that might replace it has very big shoes to fill...
I won't be getting my eval seat of NX6...
As far a Transform is concerned, I just brought some spline artwork into NX4 that I needed to scale to fit an area on the surface on a plastic part. Transform-scale sure worked nicely, incrementing the size by 5% with each middle mousebutton click.
It sounds like there are some radical changes...
I am talking about moving objects within a file. The ten-key pad allows quick access to the generic point menu, so I can quickly move an object from, say, a control point to a point on an arc. Also, in the "old" Transform, you can incrementally move an object simultaneously in X, Y, and Z...
John,
I just got off the phone with our local support person, Rob Cohon, and he told me that to incrementally move an object you would set the snap increment and drag it. However, he did not find the generic point menu allowing one to move the object to any point using the 10-key pad. I am now...
NX6 took Transform away? How depressing. It was the only quick tool left. I am starting a new company and was seriously considering NX6, but if every tool is going to be a lot of effort, then Solidworks is sounding better all the time...
