"x" the dialog please. 1

[jasonJJ]

For an example, when I double click the wcs to translate it. I click the one of the directional arrows to drag the wcs to where I want it, the friggen little dialog box always is where I don't want it. Most of the time its right where i am trying to drag or click something. How can i either tell this little dialog box to appear in a corner, or just not appear? I would dream of this little click blocker to appear further away from the courser than what it does.
I am constantly dragging the box out of the way.

 

[jasonJJ]

 

[wackolacko]

Just hit F3 to make it disappear.

John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1

 

[JohnRBaker]

There are a couple of things that you can do; first you could simply drag the "friggen little dialog box" to some other place on the screen, like to one of the "corners", where it will stay during the time that you're moving the WCS around. Or you could simply press the 'F3' key and it will go away altogether.

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[jasonJJ]

Applause ensues!
That has been bugging me for a LONG time.
Glad to be on the site now.
believe it or not, long time UG user.
Thanks again.

 

[crecore]

F3 the "ahem thing." It is fun to watch people move it only to have it pop back up in the same spot. And it is also fun during a demonstration to illustrate "flinging" the box which makes it stay away for at least that command and not pop back up in your way! Try it, you will laugh.

NX 8.0.1.5

 

[jasonJJ]

That's great!.
Heck, I'm already laughing about it and haven't tried.
I think of it like it were a fly on my screen. Its always where and when I don't want it.
I think i have subconsciously punted that little sucker off the screen thousands of times.
If it would just respect the bubble! Pop up AWAY from the cursor..

Another thing that bugs me (not to highjack my own thread), but when I am trying to translate the wcs.
I click in the bugger above mentioned and go to type my distance, bumping the spaceball slightly. Then it only goes a fraction of what I was expecting. I mean really, does bumping the spaceball that slightly have to highlight the entire field half way through me typing..
Really.. Just not re-select. that would be nice.

Everyone have a great day.

 

[SDETERS]

What about us that have the I-deas fkeys variable set to use the F1 F2 F3 F4 Keys to rotate our model around? Is there another name and or command that I can map a key to make this little box disappear like you mention above?

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, for those of you still using the so-called 'Ideas-style' Fkeys for display control, here's something which will give you access to the normal 'F3' function key behavior, that is hiding dialogs without actually closing them by pushing a single button.

What you need to do is have a 'user_dir' or 'site_dir' set-up first. If you've not done this, I'll cover here what you need to do, however you might need to consider this first. Do you want all of your users having the option to use this capability or only a couple of users? If you want everyone to have the option then you will need to set-up a common folder somewhere that all users can get access to. The folder can be given whatever name that you wish, but it must contain a folder named 'startup' and in this folder you need to place the '.tbr' file attached to this post.

First, you'll need to set an environment variable on all of your systems as follows:

UGII_SITE_DIR=<full path to that folder you created above>

Now if you're only going to be doing this for one or two users, simply create that folder containing the 'startup' folder somewhere on the user's system and set the following environment variable locally:

UGII_USER_DIR=<full path to the local folder you created above>

OK, once you've done this, restart your system (to make sure the new environment variable has been read) and restart NX. Now the first time you do this you'll need to go into 'Customize' and when the list of toolbars are displayed, you need to toggle ON a toolbar named 'Hide Dialog'. Now when the toolbar is first displayed it will probably be floating out on the graphics window somewhere so just drag it to where you want it. Now you'll notice that this toolbar shows just a simple button with the name 'Hide Dialog'. If you wish, you can use 'Customize' to replace this named-button with an icon or change the wording of the button name.

Anyway, this will give you the same behavior as the normal 'F3' key would do, remembering that this a sort of toggle-button in that if you continue to select the button it will first turn-off any on-screen dialogs first, then the actual full dialog and then hitting it once more will redisplay them all and continuing to select it will cycle through these steps. Keep in mind that the dialog will only remain hidden for that one opening of the dialog. When you open it again it will be back to it's fully displayed mode.

So there you go, you can keep your 'Ideas-style' Fkeys and still get the normal 'F3' behavior.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[Walterke]

Another star for our beloved John. And a thank you for the OP for asking this question,so I will now no longer be frustrated by that little box!

NX 7.5.5.4 with Teamcenter 8 on win7 64
Intel Xeon @3.2GHz
8GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 2000

 

[NutAce]

Allthough, as usual, John provided a very good solution to this problem..it is still a "FIX".
A fix I am not able to apply as I am bound to a global environment setup which I am not allowed to change.

I am pretty frustrated with that box as well. Even when I drag it away, most of the time it will just pop back right on the place where I need to select something.
F3 works fine but I need to do that every time I restart the function.

Jason had a good proposal...Siemens development team would make a lot of people happy when the box would avoid the cursor space and moves away from the mouse.

Ronald van den Broek
Mechanical Engineer
Cad Environment Coordinator
Wärtsilä, Propulsion Services
NX8.5.2 / TC9.1.2
HPZ420 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 0 @ 3.60GHz, 32 Gb Win7 64B
Nvidea Quadro4000 2048MB DDR5

 

[cowski]

...make a lot of people happy when the box would avoid the cursor space and moves away from the mouse.

Unless you wanted to select a field and type in a value. This case would then become an exercise in futility.

www.nxjournaling.com

 

[SDETERS]

thanks John I will set this up and see how this works. Thanks again.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Perhaps you should all open ER's requesting that we do for these 'Entry widgets' what we did for the 'QuickPick' popup dialog.

Some of you may not be aware of this, but there's a 'Pin' it option on the 'QuickPick' dialog which will allow you to drag the dialog off to some out-of-the-way corner of the screen and 'Pin' it there for the remainder of the session. If there's enough interest, perhaps we could provide that same sort of feature for the 'Entry widgets'.

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.

 

[jasonJJ]

How do I open an ER from Siemens UG?

 

[JohnRBaker]

You can open an ER (Ehancement Request) with Siemens PLM Software by contacting GTAC.

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.