Customize the File New Menu

[kanoa9321]

I am trying to customize the menu when you go File > New.

When the menu opens and you select model and select one of the items, down below it has two boxes:
Name:
Folder:

How do I go about adding a box for Description and then assigning it to an attribute?

A previous job had this, and it was super helpful because when making a part if you knew the part description, you didn't have to go into the attributes and fill it out later.

 

[Kenja824]

If this is possible, I would also be interested in it.

Is there a chance you were in Team Center for the other job that had it? I find that if I start a new file in Team Center, I can click an "Alternate Attributes" button and the File properties window will open to allow us to fill out other attributes. I don't see any ability to do that in Native. It would come in handy though if it is available.

 

[kanoa9321]

We were on teamcenter, but the box was exactly where I described above.
When in NX you would go File > New, pick model and then enter the part number and description.

Im hoping that even if its a teamcenter thing:
1. That New Menu can still be edited
2. If it could write the data to teamcenter, why couldn't it write it to an attribute.

Crossing my fingers

 

[looslib]

If NX works the same still as it did when I used it, check out User Exits. It allows you to modify the menus that are presented to the user. I had GRIP programs that replaced the File commands (Open, Svae, Save-As, New) with custom menus. Very handy for prompting the user for attributes you wanted in all of your files.

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