NX6 Object Display

[ewh]

If I want to change the color of a solid body created in NX6, all I have to do is select the body and change it; all of the faces change.
If I want to change the color of a solid body imported from another system, such as SolidWorks, this method does not work for me. I have to specify "Faces", "Select All" and then rotate it around as I continue selecting all of them (if the view is shaded). If it is not shaded, a window pick will suffice. Of course, now the face color will probably not be the same as the body color, so I have to make another pick of the solid.
Am I missing something? It sure would be nice if I only had to pick the solid body and not have to worry about missing faces, or about having to switch between shaded and wireframe.

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[JohnRBaker]

Actually you should be able to just select the body, go to Edit Object display, open the 'Settings' section of the dialog and toggled ON the 'Apply to All Faces' option.

Now as for WHY you have to do this, I suspect that SolidWorks may not actually allow a color to be assigned to the actual solid body but perhaps ONLY to the 'faces' of the solid.

And as for to issue with selecting all of the faces of a body, including those hidden when working in a shaded display (which as I've indicated above you don't actually have to do in the situation being discussed here), we recently added an additional option to the Selection Bar controlling this, as shown below. Just toggle this option ON and you will be able to selection all the faces with a single gesture.

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[ewh]

You've supplied the answers as usual, John. Thanks!

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[BOPdesigner]

I don't believe that this is unique to data coming from Solidworks. I have found that I have to check that Apply to all Faces box with any Parasolid file that I import.

 

[ewh]

I have found it true with most that I import from a system other than UG/NX (with which I have not had any problems).

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[JohnRBaker]

Which is one of the primary reasons why that option was even added to the Edit Object Display function in NX 5.0.

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

 

[hudson888]

There's the setting under Preferences>Modelling for the display preferences to be inherited from either the faces or the bodies. If it is set to faces in your part then in order to have the whole body change colour as expected then you have to turn on the "Apply to All faces" setting in the "Edit Object Display" dialog.

However I suspect that the Modelling setting may be part dependent for the purposes of the translators. So if you go to the install folders and search *null*.prt you'll find the scratch files that NX populates with the translated data. I would carefully back up the originals first but I often edit these to conform with my site standards for appearance and otherwise consistency.

Best Regards

Hudson

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