NX "Dings" when deselecting

[daxinarian]

For some reason when I deselect objects from within a command by holding shift and picking (for example, I edit a blend and remove an edge) NX triggers the "Asterisk" sound. It dings when I press shift key, then again whenever I pick an object, and finally it dings again when I release the shift key. For the sake of my sanity I have disabled the "Asterisk" sound in windows sound manager but why is NX triggering the sound in the first place?

Version: NX 6.0.5.3
System: Windows 7 64 bit

 

[JohnRBaker]

That's a new one for me ;-)

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[Toost]

New one to me also.
But, does it ding when you press shift (perform similar action) in say MS / Word ?

Regards,
Tomas

 

[cowski]

On one computer I had, if you held down the shift key for a certain amount of time, Windows would try to turn on some sort of "accessibility feature". It was in effect no matter what program was running. Once I disabled that the problem went away.

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[Toost]

Windows has a feature called Sticky keys, which i think was activated in Win XP if you pressed the same key say 6 times. (Or was it a time definition ?)

Regards
Tomas

 

[cowski]

I think it was "filter keys"...
but I don't remember now for sure.

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[daxinarian]

It does not happen in any other application, only NX. It is also not "sticky keys" (that was my first thought, and it is triggered by clicking shift 5 times).
On doing some more investigation, it appears to only happen when NX is looking for edges/curves but not features or bodies.

in the following situations it chimes
Unpicking Blend edges
Unpicking Profiles for extrude
Unpicking edges for a chamfer

in the following it will not chime
Unpicking Surfaces for a trim
Unpicking Solids for a subtract
Unpicking within a sketch