Manually assign F1,F2,F3 keys for pan ,zoom and rotate ?? 2

[ninjaz]

Is it possible to manually assign F1,F2,F3 keys for pan,zoom and rotate as in I-deas SDRC

 

[capnhook]

Spaceball.

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[ninjaz]

sorry, i do not understand.. What spaceball

 

[ninjaz]

As an additional information i am using exactly UG NX 7.5

 

[joycejo]

From Tools - Customize select Keyboard. From here you can assign shortcuts. Although when I tried the F1 key and it brings up the context sensitive help, I don't think you can use F1 but you can re-assign F2,F3,F4 to do what you want.



John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6 & NX7.5

 

[CAD2015]

By default.....
F6 → Zoom
F7 → Rotate

MZ7DYJ

 

[JurgenKreisel]

You need to set this variable:
set UGII_FKEY_DYNAMICS=1

Then you have the old I-deas F key functions.
We like it since we are old I-deas users and yes we do have a spaceball but the ability to snap a view square to the WCS makes our life easier when working on parts that are out in space and not at global zero.

Regard
Jurgen
NX8 TCUA8.3

 

[joycejo]

In NX you can pan,zoom and rotate using just the mouse.

Hold down the middle mouse button (MB2) to rotate.
Hold the Left mouse mutton and the Middle Mouse Buttons to Zoom.
Hold the Middle and Right Mouse buttons to Pan.

Yes a spaceball is far superior but this works too.



John Joyce
N.C. Programming Supervisor
Barnes Aerospace, Windsor CT
NX6 & NX7.5

 

[MeshNinja]

I endorse Jürgen's comment. As an ex-I-DEAS user setting the Environmental variable UGII_FKEY_DYNAMICS=1 is indispensable.

 

[SDETERS]

I also agree. As a former I-deas user that is a good setting. The spaceball works so much nicer. But I still find myself going back to the old f1 f2 f3 habits. I do not think the function keys are as smooth in nX as they are in I-Deas.

 

[Toost]

Quote "but the ability to snap a view square to the WCS" = F8 no matter of UGII_FKEY_DYNAMICS setting.
( And Shift+F8 = snap to sketch plane)

Regards,
Tomas

 

[JohnRBaker]

...but the ability to snap a view square to the WCS makes our life easier...

Have you ever tried using the 'F8' key? Just get close to whatever WCS orientation that you wish, hit the 'F8' key and the display will snap to the closest plane of the WCS. Also, if you select a Planar Face of your model or a Datum Plane, and then hit the 'F8' key, the display will automatically snap so as to be normal to the selected Face/Plane.

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[Toost]

Btw John, One of the most irritating things in NX is when one is defining a new datum plane and would like to see/ verify that the previewed plane cuts through the correct points, then F8 orients to the new plane instead of the regular F8...

Regards,
Tomas

 

[JohnRBaker]

The reality is that the Datum Plane being created is in a 'selected' state while it's being defined and as such, when you hit the 'F8' key, that's the object-of-interest with respect to determining what display orientation you're telling the system that you wish to see.

Now if you have a Spaceball, this is pretty much a non-issue once you have a known view orientation to start rotating the display from, in this case simply rotating around 90° to see the Datum Plane 'on-edge'.

Or better yet (and this does NOT require a Spaceball) while creating your Datum Plane, hit the 'F8' key and then place your cursor NEAR the left or right edge of the NX display window, and then, while holding down MB2 (Middle Mouse Button), drag the mouse up or down and you will be rotating the display about the horizontal axis of the window which will also be exactly at right-angles to the normal axis of the plane. Note that you should easily be able to rotate the display the 90° needed to see the Datum Plane 'edge-on', and it doesn't make any difference if once you start to move the mouse that it's NOT moving in a perfect up or down direction since by you placing the cursor NEAR one of the vertical sides of the display window BEFORE you started to hold down MB2, that this indicated to the system that you wanted to LOCK the rotation angle about the horizontal axis of the window.

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[JurgenKreisel]

The F8 Key works but unless I have some strange setting it does not snap to the WCS but to the world CS. The I-Deas F4 will also snap to nearest iso view.

Regards
Jurgen
NX8 TCUA8.3

 

[studiotreccani]

I use spacenavigator, the cheapest version of 3d connection model (130€ ~)
for me is the top to navigate into the model
and it works fine as well as the spacepilot

I use 3d connection since ug18

NX 7.5
64BIT

 

[JohnRBaker]

You're correct, I should have said that the 'F8' snaps to the neariest absolute XYZ orientation.

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[SDETERS]

If you have the I-deas keys variable set, F4 snaps to the close XYZ view Plus it snaps to an ISO type view if you have the model rotated close to an iso type view.

 

[capnhook]

You're correct, I should have said that the 'F8' snaps to the neariest absolute XYZ orientation.

Is there a function key that snaps to the nearest WCS plane orientation? WCS orientation is 1000 times more important to most people than absolute XYZ orientation.

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[JohnRBaker]

Just to be clear, I have NO issue whatsoever with people who prefer to use the so-called 'Ideas' approach of using the 'F' keys for display manipulation since we've provided you with the means to do just that, using the environment variable mentioned earlier in this thread. However, the reason that it IS an option, and one that requires something more than a simple toggle in Customer Defaults, is because those of us who grew-up using UG/NX have had access to both Mouse-gestures and Spaceball devices for many years and are more than satisfied continuing to use these 'traditional' approaches. After all, UG/NX has supported some sort of 3D hardware control since the mid 80's, first using dial-boxes on some specialized workstations...

...and later Spaceballs on all devices which supported 3D graphic drivers...

...and now with the 3Dconnexion SpaceNavigator...

...selling for around $88 on Amazon.com, almost anyone or any organization can now afford to use them as well.

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