How to rotate the view without using mouse in NX?

[Stephilosophy]

Hi,

I always struggle to get a view that suits me in NX by rotating (I was a CATIA user before). While today, I was watching a few videos in youtube on NX and realized that the speaker in the video can rotate and zoom in/out with such ease. The video link is below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YcqWqP1-RQ

So here are what I wonder.

1) In the video, the man is rotating and zooming in the views without using the mouse at 6:14. How can he do this?

2) How do you, experienced NX users, rotate the view? Any trick on that matter?

Thanks in advance

Stephan

 

[cowski]

Spaceball.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[jerry1423]

They utilize a Spaceball from 3dConnexion.

http://www.3dconnexion.com/

There are relatively inexpensive, and come in several models. I have worked on NX (and unigraphics) for 25 years and always have one (or the knob thing).

Jerry J.
Milwaukee Electric Tool

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

or the competition to 3D Connexions, the SpaceController (I have 2 of them):

http://www.spacecontrol.us/spacecontrol-3d-mouse-spacecontroller.html

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer


NX3 to NX10 with almost every MR (21versions)

 

[JohnRBaker]

Or you could always open the 'Rotate View' dialog, select an axiz of rotation, select the 'Slider' tool and then use the Left and Right arrow keys to incrementally rotate the view about the selected axis.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Digital Factory
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[TaylorAnderson]

Another set of helpful non-mouse rotations can be done with:
[ul]
[li]the F8 key (which will automatically rotate the view to bring a selected planar object into flat alignment with the screen)[/li]
[li]the F8 key (which will automatically rotate the view to the nearest of the six main orthogonal views, if nothing is selected)[/li]
[li]the HOME key (which will automatically rotate and then fit the view to the default Trimetric view)[/li]
[li]the END key (which will automatically rotate and then fit the view to the default Isometric view)[/li]
[/ul]

But yeah... the motion in this video is definitely a Spaceball.

Taylor Anderson
NX Product Manager, Knowledge Reuse and NX Design
Product Engineering Software
Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
(Phoenix, Arizona)

 

[NutAce]

I am using the Spacemouse wireless.
Pretty pleased with it actualy and suprised how long the battery lasts.

Unfortunately it doesn't come with a Carrying case (I keep it wih my laptop) so I Designed one in NX and printed it with our 3D Printer.

Ronald van den Broek
Application Specialist
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX8.5.3 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5
HP EliteBook 8570W Intel(R) Core(TM) I7-3740QM CPU @ 2.70GHz, 16Gb Win7 64B

 

[BubbaK]

This doesn't answer your original question, but it's related.

The first thing I do is go into View-->Operation-->Rotate and set the View-Up vector to the direction that points upwards in the real world (i.e. the vector from my feet to my head). In my opinion, this makes view rotations much more "natural".

What is it in Catia that makes view control easier ??

 

[jerry1423]

yes it does answer the original question
What can be done in Catia can be done in NX as well

Jerry J.
Milwaukee Electric Tool

http://www.milwaukeetool.com/

 

[Stephilosophy]

Hi, Bubbak

Thank you for your reply.

I didn't say CATIA has anything that makes control easier. I am familiar with CATIA while new to NX and it seems that for a general rotate view operation, rotation centers of these two software are different.

And your advice is solid. Now I can rotate view like I did before in CATIA

 

[Dave K]

So how does the

http://www.spacecontrol.us/

compare to the 3Dconnexion units?

-Dave

NX 9, Teamcenter 10

 

[Arkance/PhoeNX]

@Gunman, I'm assuming you're referring to me. I've used/owned various Spaceballs, SpacePilot, SpacePilotPro, SpaceNavigators and the SpaceControllers.
SpaceController is the best as far as the software is concerned (in my opinion).
Not the most user friendly interface I admit, but when you understand it, it's very powerful.

The unit has a ring/wheel at the base of the puck that turns around.
It can launch a menu inside NX (the Wheel Function Menu see image below) that you can add NX functions to.
I modified to add the applications I most use. It can also be set to change the operation navigators views, enable navigators (if you undock them).

Put it this way, I got a unit to test a while back and liked it so much I spent my own money to buy one for home.

Anthony Galante
Senior Support Engineer


NX3 to NX10 with almost every MR (21versions)