Insert sphere feature.

[MickyV007]

I have a point cloud on a sheet feature, now i need to put a sphere on each of these points. So open up the sphere feature, select a point, it jumps to the Boolean section in the menu, select the body to unite with, selection jumps to the Apply button so i can press the MMB.
Now i need to select the next point, so i would assume that after i pressed the apply button, my selection in the menu would jump back to the Specify Point part of the menu, but no, you need to manually press here to get it focused.
Is there an easier way to do this? Or is there a setting i need to apply?
Would like to upload a movie , but something went wrong on the server?

Best regards,

Michaël.

NX7.5.4.4 + TC Unified 8.3
Win 7 64 bit

 

[cowski]

If the spheres are all the same diameter, you can use the journal posted by FrankSwinks in thread561-315066.

http://www.nxjournaling.com

 

[ewh]

What I found frustrating is that, as powerful and useful as the software becomes, it still couldn't do some things that had already been achieved over twenty-five years ago by other systems (which had been purchased by UG, or whomever they were at the time), such as move/copy... in Applicon back in the 80's, when copying something you could pick the item, pick the "from" point, then pick as many "to" points as needed (wherever those points happened to be), press the MMB and you're done - without leaving or having to repeat the current command. Now we are offered equally spaced "arrays". Or trimming curves - pick the "fence curve(s)" and then do a window (lasso) pick on however many curves you need to trim (no need to tell the system that you want to pick more curves), and the operation completed in less time than it takes to trim two separate curves to the same curve today. The additional single button push isn't the issue so much as the lack of being able to encompass all of the subject curves in a single lasso, instead having to pick them one at a time. I am aware that there are supposed to be methods that approach this efficiency, but I have yet to find them as simple or intuitive.
It seems that the more bells and whistles added, the harder it is to keep that type of functionality. And this isn't a case of "that's how I am used to doing it" so much as efficiency.
I have made enhancement requests of this sort many times but not in several years, as I was usually informed that there are such capabilities already in place (I just don't know how to use them), and now as a mere contractor, I no longer have the ear of the developers.
What I really need to do is to be able to follow John around for a couple of weeks!

Technically, the glass is always full.