Setting Sketch colors? NX3/4 (also setiing default UI's) 1

[drstevil]

one of our customers is constantly sending us files where the sketch colors are ALL the same. So constrained, un-constrained, over-constrained, text, dimensions, ref lines, etc are all the same color. As you can imagine, this is a nightmare on sketches where there is a lot of fine detail. It's hard to tell what you're looking at, especially when you have to make a fairly large change.


I've looked through UG for hours looking for a way to change it but with little success. I can get the sketch to change colors while it's not active, but as soon as I go to edit it, the colors go back to the way they were. I tried preferences, sketch preferences, customer defaults and many others to no avail (in and out of sketcher). I know there has to be a way to do it... it worked in v.16-18 fine afaik.


Also, more of a side question... is there a way to save a UI layout to use at a later time? For instance, save the way all of my toolbars are laid out... and on a fresh install of UG, simply load "X" file and bring UG back to how it was before?

I know you can save the layout, but can't figure out how to load that file on a clean install. Any ideas?

thanks a lot
-steve

 

[JohnRBaker]

In NX 4, go to Customer Defaults -> Sketcher -> Colors and set the colors as you would like them. Then open the file(s) that you wish to update, enter the Sketch task and select Preferences -> Sketch..., select the tab labeled 'Colors' and at the bottom select 'Inherit from Customer Defaults' and then hit OK and save your file.

Note that this procedure was not available prior to NX 4. Once you opened a new part the colors of the sketch were permanent.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA

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[JohnRBaker]

As for reusing in your Toolbar layouts and assigned icons, the file that you need to copy over is...

In NX 3:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX\user.mtx

In NX 4:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX4\user.mtx

Now starting in NX 4 you do have an option, if you've created a personal 'Role', you could use that file instead. You will find your 'Role" files at:

C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Unigraphics Solutions\NX4\roles

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
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.

 

[drstevil]

thank you very much, I appreciate the help.

thanks
-Steve