HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
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HI,
How to configure "press and hold" right button menu?
Is it possible ?
thanks
How to configure "press and hold" right button menu?
Is it possible ?
thanks





RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
See the attached PDF for your answer. Note this may only apply to NX4 and NX5. BTW, this is referred to as the Radial Popup Menu in case you weren't aware.
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: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
Thanks for the file attached:)
But this menu transforme if, for example you call it above a component in an assembly or in drafting if you are in background or above a dimension.
All this pop up mb3 menu should be custumizable but how ?
thank again for the first post
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
Incidentally, I think you initially meant that when you HOVER your cursor over specific object types, you get a completely different Radial Popup than if you just MB3 click and hold over nothing, which is what I thought you meant. Since you didn't mention anything other than MB3 and hold, this ended up making a BIG difference in the answer I provided. Not a big deal to me, but it does matter what information you provide from the start.
Please be sure you provide as much detail as possible when you ask a question, as that can sometimes affect the response you receive.
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: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
I've seen/used alias a little too and the way they have the radial style menus is awesome.
As you can customise it yourself you can set all of youre most used commands up just on the radial menus.
By adding alt ctrl & shift key combinations it means you can have around 52 commands just off the radial menus. This is not taking into acoount mouse button combinations that would increase this even more.
The amount of mouse movement is cut down drastically.
If you imagine the amount of distance in a day you move the mouse from the main UG modelling window up to an icon and back it adds up to a huge amount of time.
I've watched a competent alias user create surfaces extremely quickly and to be fair UG has most of the same features but it would have taken me a whole lot longer.
There will always be a learning curve to working this way which would probably mean a short term productivity drop but for a long term increase.
The other advantage is of course that you can get more screen area as you need far fewer icons.
I don't think the alias menu is context sensetive so you get the same menu if you are over dead space or over model geometry which I do find better. The number of times I've wanted to change to wireframe in UG but had to zoom out to click on a bit of blank screen.
Personally I'd love to see this as a future enhancement.
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
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: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
For example, the MB3 pop-up for View operations is built from a menu file, which means that you can edit it to control both the content of the normal pop-up menu as well as the radial pop-up, and there's even work being done to perhaps provide users with a means to edit these pop-ups using normal Customization tools, but ONLY for the View pop-up.
However, the MB3 pop-ups that you get when you've selected some feature or geometric object are not being created from a menu file that you could edit. Rather we have a single mechanism which reads the object highlighted and from this object itself, determines what options to include in both the MB3 pop-up as well as the radial pop-up. There are no menu files that are user editable, but rather the list of valid options are created on-the-fly, as it were. We chose this approach since it allows us to make changes to the global behavior of pop-up menus (including the radial pop-up) without having to go around and update literally dozens and dozens of menu files. This also allows us to add new object types, or update an existing object, and all we have to do is include, for this object only, the options that the developer wishes to be available from the pop-up menus, but these records are tied to the object type, not to the pop-up menu mechanism.
Anyway, I hope this gives you a better understanding of what this sort of enhancement would entail.
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/
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
I see both sides of the fence on this, but if you think about it, customizing these radial menus would be very nice and keep the user more focused on what they're working on rather than diverting their attention to toolbar locations or pulldowns.
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: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
Also note that I've already customized the View Pop-up since I have a means to do that and would also like to at least have the chance of customizing some of the object specific ones as well.
Now, if what it is that you wish to tha some other current function/utility be available from the Radil Pop-up for certain objects types, a better ER request might be to have these options added to the current Radial Pop-ups. Granted, a general customizing capability would be better, but in all honesty, it might be easier to get this on a case by cases basis if there are some obvious situations where additional option could be included now.
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/
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
I personally don't like the context sensitive style of the radial popups and would be keen to have these depend on combinations of keyboard presses (ctrl, alt, shift & combinations) and mb3 clicks. As I mentioned previously it can be a pain to find some dead space on the screen if you're zoomed in too much and also to get object rather than feature context sensitive menus is not that slick.
You could have it so that without pressing a key an MB3 click is context sensetive and then when you press your key combinations with MB3 that it overides it and uses user customisable menus. This may make programming it a little easier as youre adding onto what's already there.
Another really useful thing would be a middle mouse button click to repeat last command. Middle button clicks on there own don't have an action assigned at the moment. This would lend itself to people who use middle clicks to "OK" at the end of a feature creation as this closes the dialogue.
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
This is not to say that I don't see the point of wanting to stay in certain dialogs in order to repeat the operation selecting another object as the target. If the operation of that function is somewhat contextual it would be a great idea, so that where okay is valid now the operation would become either okay or apply, but when the dialog is exited and you're doing nothing then the middle button becomes let's do another one.
It is also the sort of thing that needs to be combined with making the mode of operation consistent across all operations.
Just my Opinion
Hudson
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
My point is that MB2 would be ok in all dialogus as it is now.
When you don't have a dialogue open it would act as repeat last command.
Try a middle mouse click on your screen when you have no dialogue open and you'll see it does nothing at the moment.
Hope that's clearer.
Cheers,
Mark Benson
Aerodynamic Model Designer
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
I was thinking about how nice a repeat would be.
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: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
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/
RE: HOW TO CONFIGURE "PRESS AND OLD" RIGHT BUTTON MENU ?
However the need to maintain rotation functions is also worthy. Having recently established how very cheap Space Navigators have become, so few of us are mindful of the need to work any other way
Regards,
Hudson