NX5 toolbar
NX5 toolbar
(OP)
i've just loaded up NX5, (from NX3)
i can't seem to undock the selection toolbar, so i can move it to the other screen.
Can someone point me in the right direction please
i can't seem to undock the selection toolbar, so i can move it to the other screen.
Can someone point me in the right direction please





RE: NX5 toolbar
The so-called 'Selection Toolbar' is not really a toolbar, at least not in
the sense of how the other Toolbars are implemented. It's actually more
like the Que and Status line in that regard. The problem with implementing
this as a 'normal' toolbar is that toolbars don't provide a good mechanism
for dynamically adding and removing content. Generally that's only done
using an 'active' - 'inactive' (graying-out) scheme, but with the 'Selection
Toolbar' we didn't want to have to populate it with every possible item and
then just gray them out when they were not available. We wanted a more
dynamic scheme that actually displayed or hid items when appropriate.
However, since it could also contain traditional icons, we did provide a way
for users to 'customize' some of the more static content as well as allow
you to add some of your own, but as for the non-toolbar-like behaviors that
you mentioned, we don't really have any control over that since, as I said,
it's NOT really a toolbar.
Besides, one of the virtues of the new behavior IS that users have NO
control over the location or placement of the 'Selection Toolbar' thereby
assuring a consistent and predictable location which addressed one of the
older complaints of always having to go and look for (and in some cases
recovering them when they were inadvertently removed) the Selection Intent,
Snap Point, etc. Toolbars, when they were normal toolbars. This way we
solved both the 'Why does it always move around?' and the 'Why can't I find
it?' problems with the old individual toolbars, albeit by limiting the
overall behavior to that of a more static (at least in terms of placement),
consolidated scheme.
So the bottom line is the Selection Toolbar goes where the Que and Status line goes since it's implemented using a similar set of tools.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: NX5 toolbar
For people who complain "where is it" should consentrate on better fermiliarisation, in my view
RE: NX5 toolbar
Are you also suggesting that perhaps we should convert the Que and Status line into a conventional 'toolbar' so that there would also be more control over where it's placed?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: NX5 toolbar
I'd just as soon see broken commands fixed as to see more time spent on the interface...that can be done later.
I feel more users complain about that sort of situation than anything else other than money-related stuff.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX5 toolbar
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: NX5 toolbar
RE: NX5 toolbar
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
RE: NX5 toolbar
I have PRs still open that are over a year old, some that are so old the software version is no longer supported. Since the version support died, the PRs were never closed out and I was never notified of anything being fixed, even in a newer version. All of that only supports the fact that something is being left for later, but at my company's expense once a month.
Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com
Some people are like slinkies....they don't really have a purpose, but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs.
RE: NX5 toolbar
Mail me a list of your 'open' PR's and I check them and see what I can learn.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Product Line
SIEMENS PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/