Is there a way to kill an operation w/out closing file in NX3?

[gurucallie]

We work with some rather large assembly models and when we place the views on the drawings we turn off automatic update, so we have to update the views manually. Is there a way to kill the update process if it is taking too long without killing UG? I am not getting a UG stop process box while updating views. I'm on a PC and I remember there used to be a way to kill a function on a unix workstation, but never found one on a PC. On the workstation we opened a function window and used kill -9 with the process code and it would kill just that process so you wouldn't have to do a bunch of work over when the file closes without saving.

I appreciate any help anyone can give.
Thanks.

 

[looslib]

Ctrl-shift L
Don't know if that still works, but it used to kill the processing by UG without killing the process itself.


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[JohnRBaker]

Actually we have replaced 'Cntl-Shift-L' with the little 'Work in Progress' message which you will see on occasion when some task is taking a long time to complete.

If you see this message with a 'Stop' button, then selecting it will halt the current operation in a safe manner.

However, if you do NOT see the 'Stop' button, then the software is NOT in a state where it can be halted in a safe manner.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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