NX6 COORDINATE SYSTEMS 3

[delliott]

I am trying to find a way, if it's even possible, to turn off whatever it is that keeps adding coordinate systems in my file every time I do anything, from moving faces, to moving parts. a coordinate system keeps popping up, and i have to constantly remove parameters to delete them out. this occurs even in history-free mode. is there a way to stop that?

 

[cowski]

Can you post a pic?

 

[ewh]

You forget what a wcs looks like? ;-)

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[delliott]

Here you go

 

[cowski]

@ewh
I wasn't sure if we were talking about a 'saved' csys or datum csys

@delliott
Do they only show up in certain commands? Your post seems to imply the 'move' command; do you have the 'move parents', 'associative', or 'create trace lines' options set?

 

[delliott]

Yes, it seems to only happen when I'm using the commands in the Synchronous Modeling toolbar.

 

[jerry1423]

it appears to me like what you have is a "saved cycs", if that is the case then click on it and hit your delete key on your keyboard.
If it does not go away then your wcs is on that saved cycs.
If you move your wcs someplace else, you should then be able to delete that saved cycs.
You will probably want to move your wcs back to where it was. I assume that it was on the absolute origin.

 

[ewh]

He has been deleting them, only to have them reappear upon an edit, if my understanding is correct. I'm at a loss as to where the setting for this behavior is located. I know you can temporarily create a new csys while executing a synchronous modeling command, but those dissappear when the command is complete.

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[delliott]

Yes they reappear every time I do an edit, and I have to remove parameters first before I am able to delete them out.

 

[jerry1423]

I just went into the "command finder" and entered "saved wcs" and the first thing to come up was "saved filters" - I think that may help you if you are using WAVE.
I am not using WAVE so I cannot investigate it.

 

[delliott]

I don't even know what WAVE is so I dont think i'm using it. We just upgraded from NX2 to NX6 so we're still getting used to the changes. I miss the "reset" button too!

 

[JohnRBaker]

Every dialog now has it's OWN 'reset' button, as shown in the attached image:

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[delliott]

wow i definitely looked over the reset button this whole time! thank you!

 

[delliott]

But back on to the original question I had....these retained coordinate systems or whatever they may be; they don't affect anything I'm doing, I just don't like seeing them when I'm making part prints. i know i can just blank them out, but i'd rather find a way to make it so they don't appear at all

 

[cowski]

What 'motion' option are you using in the move face command? (Angle, distance, raidal distance, csys to csys, etc)

 

[cowski]

I'm trying to reproduce your problem, but I keep getting an 'internal error' when I start the move face command.

Time for a reboot!

 

[delliott]

well it doesn't seem to matter what motion option i use for the 'move face' command. well i have narrowed it down a little bit. it creates a coordinate system when i use Move Face, Pull Face, Resize Face, and Copy Face. I'm starting to think it's just a bug because I don't see any type of option i can click to remove it

 

[ewh]

You may want to try the GTAC support forum (bbsnotes.ugs.com) for this one...

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[tryitagain]

Hi delliot,

If I understand your question right, I think there is one thing more you can do. If there is a setting option in the menue remove the associative mark. After removing that mark you are able to change to the current WCS. But you have to do that every time. I'm still with NX5.

I'm working with UG since 10.4 and started using NX5 one and a half year ago after working with NX3 for two years.
I talked to several guys here in the States and in Germany who are using NX6 and they told me that meanwhile you spend more time defining some parameter, which is slowing down the whole process anyways, then thinking about your work. It seems to me, that in the higher versions ,after NX3, you do not have the freedom anymore to decide which parameter you want to keep and which not. Of course, there are buttons where you switch off associativity, but you have to do that every time. This slows down a lot. Obviously UG is getting worse every new release. It started with the redesigned user interface which may be easy for a UG freshman, but ....

Regards,

 

[JohnRBaker]

If you have dialog memory enabled (it can be switched off, at least in terms of being retained from one session to another, in Customer Defaults) and you toggle OFF associativity in a dialog it should remain toggled OFF until you toggle it back ON.

As for the redesign of the user interface, it was done to make NX more consistent and easier to use, PERIOD. And contrary to what existing users might like to think, the success of a software company can NOT depend ONLY on what it brings in in terms of maintenance and service fees but must continue to sell ADDITIONAL seats of software to customers who are either currently using another system or whose present NX implementation does not yet cover all of their existing people or organizations. In other words, people who when they either are evaluating or learning to use NX are technically, as you call them, 'UG freshman'. I'm sorry if that hard cold reality is inconvenient, but it's just that, reality.

But since you brought it up and you claim to go back to Unigraphics V10.4, are you advocating that we return to when virtually every item was accessed via pull-down menus with cascade options or where every single parameter reverted back to some out-of-the-box default which the user had absolutely NO control over? Where there was no ability to easily customize the content of menus which meant that even the items which you never used were given the same prominence as the items you used everyday? Is this the behavior that you would like NX to revert back to?

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