...and before anyone points out that 'Join Face' is NOT a 'Trim' operation, it was felt that placing it directly below 'Divide Face' was the logical place to put it. Besides, we really couldn't think of any place to put it that would be any more discoverable than where we did place it since we felt that if we kept the albeit opposite functions of 'Join' and 'Divide' next to each other, that it would not take long for people to make the connection and thus remember the location.
Of course, you could also have used the...
Help -> Command Finder...
...tool introduced in NX 5.0 to also find where the function was.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
It IS available through the pull-down menus. That was the first suggestion I offered.
The Command Finder is for when you've forgotten or it's something which you don't use on a regular basis.
I was referring to the whole pull down menu changing
and some of the commands being hard to find, not join faces specifically. thanks for the help and the command finder.
What version of NX/UG did you move from when you upgraded to NX 5.0?
Our longterm trend has been to move, in this case the Edit -> Face commands, over to either the Synchronous Modeling (AKA, Direct Modeling) or to a more appropriate Insert -> category, when these functions were updated as fully supported Features.
If you were to look at this from the viewpoint of a new customer you can see how the old locations would be seen as totally illogical.
And before anyone makes a comment about which group we should focus on, new customers or legacy users, this was why we implemented the 'Command Finder' in the first place since it will be of particular value to existing users who may know the name of the command but does not recall or know were it's now located. Also we have changed the names of certain functions to better comply with standard industry nomenclature so the Command Finder is also setup to find the renamed functions when you enter the legacy name, such as 'Taper' versus 'Draft', 'Hollow' versus 'Shell' , 'Blank' versus 'Hide', 'Unblank' versus 'Show', etc.
And speaking of 'Legacy Users', it was 32 years ago this week that I came out to United Computing in Carson, CA for my first Unigraphics class. When I walked into class on that warm August morning, I was about as 'cold' as one could get with respect to what we were getting ourselves into since I was on vacation when the United sales people came to our facility in Saginaw, MI and made their presentations about Unigraphics and exactly what it was that this new technology called "CAD/CAM" could do for us.
The day after I got back to the office from vacation (which BTW was to California), my boss called me to his office and informed me that I would be going to California in 2 weeks to take a class in this new "CAD/CAM stuff", which he was not all that enthusiastic about, but for which the decision to buy had already been made by our corporate people in the UK, and so he was just making sure that his department got their money's worth. However, he didn't hold much future for it since as he described it, "It only has a 19" screen and most of our parts are larger than that."
We have sure come a long long way since 1977... ;-)
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
