NX Open 7.5 available bitmaps 1

[castillor]

Hi,

I have been looking into the new NX Open tree control. The tree control nodes has the capability to have its own icon. I can see with the examples and documentation that you can use NX bitmaps but the thing is I cannot find the documentation about which bitmaps are available. Does anyone know where can I find the documentation of the available bitmaps? Thank you.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[JohnRBaker]

That information is not normally published but we often provide it upon request. I haven't gotten a copy of the NX 7.5 bitmaps yet, but let me see if I can track them down and if I do I'll see about arranging to get a copy to you.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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[castillor]

Hi John,

I suspected it is like that. I've spent some time trying to track the bitmap files by looking into the documentation and searching within the installation folder but was unsuccessful. I would really appreciate it if you can track them down or give me a copy. Thank you very much.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[markrief]

If you see particular bitmaps in the system that you want to use, we can probably get you the names.

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[castillor]

Hi Mark,

Currently I'm most interested in the PMI icons displayed on the Part Navigator tree. Also, I'm looking for icons that can represent a point, line, curve, circle, plane, cylinder, cone, and sphere. Although, a list of what's available will be best solution for future developments. Thank you.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can stop looking since there is NO folder which was installed along with NX which contains the actually bitmaps used for the various icons in NX. While we have that sort of data, as I said before, we don't normally provide it unless there is an expressed need. Note that the data used by the system to generate the icon artwork are captured in .dll's as this is the most efficient means to populate the icons during runtime. However, if you know the name of the actual 'image', you can reference it in a menu file or when customizing the UI using the interactive Customize tools.

Speaking of Customize and the names of the icon 'images', all you have to do to get access to these names is to go into...

Tools -> Customize...

...select the particular toolbar icon of interest, press MB3, select the 'Change Button Image' option and then the 'Image Name...' item at the bottom of the pop-up sub-dialog. A text entry dialog will be displayed showing the 'name' of the selected icon's 'image'. Now that you've that name of the 'image' you should be good to go.

I'm still going to try and get you that reference file, but it might not be that friendly to use since it's listed by the names of the 'images', which are not always that easy to decipher. If you're looking for only a few icon names, the procedure I outlined above is about as easy as anything.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[castillor]

Hi John,

Awesome! A good workaround for toolbar icons but very painful especially if you still don't know what to use and just browsing around. Also, not applicable for things like the PMI icons used in the Part Navigator tree. Thank you very much John! That helped me somehow.

I would still very much appreciate it if you can provide the reference file. If I can get a hold of it, I'm thinking of writing a small program within NX Open so that I can browse through the images more easily.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[JohnRBaker]

There are two different types of data available. One is the actual artwork in the form of .bmp files, but the libraries that they make up are quite large, as you can imagine (in NX 6.0 there are over 7,500 icons, and .bmp's are not the most 'efficient' image format).

The other file, if I can even find one as we may have changed our process (I haven't seen one since NX 4.0), was a single html file which when opened, would display the icons and their names in alphabetical order, but only if you also had the library of icon bitmaps in the same location, so while the html file was relatively 'small', you still needed to have 6 to 10 megabytes of .bmp's in order for the html file to be of any use to anyone.

As I said, I'm still looking, but the person I got the files from in the past is out of town and won't be back in the office until at least Monday.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[castillor]

Hi John,

Wow that's a lot. Does not matter though, I guess I'll just have to find a way to sort through it.

No hurry, this product is still currently in the research phase and would not start until several months later. I'm just afraid that you will forget about this post.

I'll just try to remind you next week in-case you've forgotten because as you've said, this info is not generally available. I see an advantage with this information for our development. This for us means eliminating the time in developing our own bitmaps and it can maintain a consistent feel for the application we're developing.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[richotchkiss]

I have the bitmaps for NX6 but have been wanting to get the 7.5 icons as well.
The way I find the icons I want is to use the Explorer search to search for key words in the icon directory. A good viewer like xnview (which quickly displays thumbnails) is useful too.

 

[cowski]

A good icon editor will be able to extract icons from exe and dll files.

Ico FX is a good (and free!) editor I have used in the past.

http://icofx.ro/

There is also a 'portable' version (runs from your USB drive) at

http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/icofx_portable

 

[JohnRBaker]

While I don't know exactly what tools are used by our icon 'artist', the product which I've used to create and edit icons for the past few years is something called 'Icon Collector' from Great Owl Software:

http://www.greatowl.com/Editor/Iccedit.htm

I started out using their freeware but eventually paid for the full version and am currently running the 32-bit, version 4.11 (on Windows 7 64-bit).

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[markrief]

In the short term, try entering these names:
add_pmi_filter_cascade
apply_pmi_filter_cascade
pmi_company_proprietary_info
pmi_edit_exp_cut_view
pmi_exp_cut_view
pmi_material_specification
pmi_smash_custom_symbol


Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[castillor]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the update. I've tried the bitmaps that you gave and it's not really what I'm looking for. I'm interested in the Part Navigator tree PMI bitmaps like the Datum Feature Symbol, the different bitmaps for Feature Control Frames, and Dimensions. I attached a sample picture of some of these PMI bitmaps that I'm referring to.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[JohnRBaker]

I'm not sure that the normal bitmap library includes the 'small' icons used in the navigators. I suspect that they are not implemented in the same manner at the toolbar icons. I'll check next week when the leader of the UI group is back in the office, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[JohnRBaker]

I haven't forgotten, just that it will be a couple more days as the person who helped me out with the NX 6.0 bitmaps is not back yet from vacation (she and her husband are floating somewhere along the coast of Alaska which I guess explains why my emails have gone unanswered ;-)

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[castillor]

Hi John,

Thank you very much for the update. Haha... No pressure dude. I really wasn't planning on reminding you until the end of this week.

Regards,
Raymond

 

[markrief]

For the symbols in the picture you attached, try these names:

datum
parallelism
cylindricity
tophalfcircle
circle_quadrants
flatness
perpendicularity
hole_dim

Mark Rief
Product Manager
Siemens PLM

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, I've got the NX 7.5 high-quality bitmaps and have uploaded them to the GTAC 'scratch' area. Anyone with a 'WebKey ID' can go to...

http://ftp.ugs.com/

...and download them from the 'scratch' area.

There are 5 sets of files and they are named:

NX_75_Bitmaps_Misc_Icons.zip
NX_75_Bitmaps_16x16.zip
NX_75_Bitmaps_24x24.zip
NX_75_Bitmaps_32x32.zip
NX_75_Bitmaps_48x48.zip

Note that these files will only remain in the 'scratch' area for a couple of days so if you need the libraries, don't wait too long.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

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

 

[castillor]

Hi John,

Nice! Thank you soooo much for the files. I assume that the first part of the filename is also the bitmap name used in NX?

Regards,
Raymond