Organizing the palettes

[CNSZU]

Hello,

I would like to organize the palettes (that appear on the left side) to better suit my workflow. Things I would like to achieve is:

-ability to remove certain system palettes (eg. Materials Library and Internet Explorer)
-ability to change the order of custom visualization materials
-ability to add folders to better organize custom visualization materials



NX8.5 Win7SP1 64bit i7-3770K@4.3Ghz 16GB Quadro2000

 

[JohnRBaker]

Unfortunately here are very few options or customization tools which can modify or enable/disable system provided palettes on the Resource Bar.

That being said, there IS a way to remove the Internet Explorer tab from the Resource Bar. Go to...

Customer Defaults -> Gateway -> User Interface -> General

...and if you leave the Web Browser fields BLANK that tab will be removed from the Resource Bar.

And if you go to...

Preferences -> Palettes...

...and select the 'System Materials' palette you will note that a 'Delete' option is enabled.

But that's about it as far as the default out-of-the-box palettes are concerned. Of course, any user defined palette can be removed anytime you wish.

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

Thank you for the reply, but clearing the browser fields doesn't remove the Internet Explorer tab (after restarting), and I was referring to Materials Library (not System Materials) that for some reason automatically appears when editing a visualization material. However most importantly is some way of organizing the visualization materials that I create. So far I have about 40 materials (and counting) and it's a pain locating the ones I need.

NX8.5 Win7SP1 64bit i7-3770K@4.3Ghz 16GB Quadro2000

 

[JohnRBaker]

You appear to be right about the Internet Explorer tab. However, the documentation clearly states that leaving the Cusatomer Default entry empty will remove the tab. I'll have to open a PR for this.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:

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

 

[kapmnit123]

Hi CNSZU,
Sorry i have not much to add here but for organising the materials in part you can create new palletes and then copy and paste (from the materials in parts) the materials accordingly in those palletes so this will act as folders for specific material groups.I know it will further lengthen the resource bar but as of now i am aware of this workaround only.Also you wont be able to edit the pasted materials (that is the reason why i copy it rather then cut)
Best Regards
Kapil Sharma

 

[CNSZU]

Yes, Kapil, I'm thinking about using this workaround, but the issue here is how to mark each tab according to what material group it contains.

NX8.5 Win7SP1 64bit i7-3770K@4.3Ghz 16GB Quadro2000

 

[kapmnit123]

Hi CNSZU ,
If accepatble to you then you can try editing the palette name and may be try changing the BMP attached to it also.(i am attaching an image herewith.)
Best Regards
Kapil Sharma