NX5 Questions:

[Shadowspawn]

I'm currently evaluating NX5, so my first questions are:

1) How do I set the navigators and pallet menus to the R hand side of the screen versus the L side as installed?

2) Why won't it let me dock icon menus on the sides?

...others to follow!

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[JohnRBaker]

1) You can change this either in Customer Defaults under Gateway -> User Interface -> Layout. Or under Preferences -> User Interface... and select the Layout tab.

2) There should be nothing preventing you from doing this (at least it worked for me just a minute ago ;-), however, if you do decide to have toolbar vertical along the side an you have the 'Rail' enabled and your dialogs are coming up on that same side as where the toolbars are, you may wish to move the rail away from the side a bit so that the toolbars can be seen. You do that by grabbing the 'Rail' with the cursor on the black text area and just drag it. If you have toolbars on the side, move the Rail away and then drag it back and it will snap to stay snug to the side and yet you will still see the icons on the toolbar.

I hope this helps get you up and running.


John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/ugs

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[Shadowspawn]

Yep! :-D

I'm trying to get up to speed with 'instance geometry' now...

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[Xwheelguy]

Instance geometry has made designing wheels such a pleasure now that everything will work right in regards to arraying geometry....no more grouped features AND everything updates correctly!!!!

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Tim,

We just knew that you'd like this function ;-)



John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
SIEMENS
UGS PLM Software
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/ugs

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

 

[jackley]

Now I just wish I could get upgraded to NX 5.0. Hearing about all the new functionality and features has me a little bit envious.

Can't wait till GM upgrades.

Justin Ackley
Designer
jackley@gmail.com

 

[Shadowspawn]

Hmmm... Ok guys, here's the deal. I'm in a position at work where I'm making the call with regards to anything CAD/CAM related; everything from dealing w/legacy data to getting on more of a concentric CAD/CAM platform (being UG) to defining standards and methodologies to implementing Tce of some flavor, versioning rules, release/status system, deciding on platform version, etc... So I'm in the unique position (for me at least) of being able to essentially set up an 'optimal' system.


Ok...now back to reality.

Were currently on NX3, with the worst possible CAD environment you could think of (no associativity anywhere...) and about 15 total users at the moment. For me (read both the CAD side and individually) it's a no brainer: Migrate to NX5 now. But it's not just me... I need to consider the rest of the world....

Should I: 1) Stay NX3 2) Go NX4, then NX5 later, or 3) Go NX5 now? ...and why? ...and considering the above tirade, what would you suggest?

Regards,
SS
CAD should pay for itself, shouldn't it?

 

[jackley]

One thing, do you ever ship out native data to customers? That would be a big driving factor of what you decide.

Here where I work, we are still on NX3 because we do a lot for GM. But what we send is mostly parasolids (why not use NX5 and just ship out older versions of parasolids, well I'm trying to get this).

I wouldn't go NX4 since NX5 is out. No sense in doing 2 separate transitions.

And it only makes sense to get into a fully parametric environment. I am a huge advocate on this. Finally I have shown the couple guys I work with the advantages of a fully parametric environment. Sketches, datums, etc. Makes the modifications so much quicker. We do suspension bushings and brackets. It's a couple cylinders with rubber in between, wave linking geometry to keep things concentric and maintaining certain distances, now that's what I call a good time.

Justin Ackley
Designer
jackley@gmail.com

 

[Xwheelguy]

John,

I'm VERY impressed with that particular feature, and you KNOW I'm not afraid to be a critic when "needed". I also feel that development has made a change for the better in terms of at least considering what users are saying on the boards. I don't mean to imply that they never did before, but it just seems like there is a better understanding of what the users would like to see and what development is willing to at least try.



SS,

We currently aren't using NX for anything other than modeling (no internal Teamcenter or anything and no CAM or mold making) and so far, NX5 has been a remarkable improvement over previous NX versions.

There are a few bugs, but the ones I've ran into are far from show stoppers. I had more bugs from NX2 to NX4 than any other version going back to UG v11. Granted, my modeling techniques and knowledge changed from the early days, but none the less, most of our issues came after NX1.

I would encourage you to go to the BBS Notes and browse through the CAD forum to see if there are ANY issues that would affect you if you were to migrate to NX5 now. Some of the issues I've seen aren't part of our workflow but may affect yours or what you might envision directly.

Based on the modeling and drafting that we utilize, I'd say move to NX5. It's only going to get better from there.

Hope this helps,

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.