Radial Pop-ups
Radial Pop-ups
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Is it possible, and how, to customize the Radial Pop-ups. As an example to replace "Wireframe with dim edges" with "wireframe with hidden edges" or "Static wireframe"?
And I have another question about views customization. But I don't want to start a new thread about it, because it is connected with first one.
Is it possible, and how, to customize "Wireframe with dim edges" and "dimmed edges" to be displayed with dashed lines.
And I have another question about views customization. But I don't want to start a new thread about it, because it is connected with first one.
Is it possible, and how, to customize "Wireframe with dim edges" and "dimmed edges" to be displayed with dashed lines.
Regards: Dimo Urumov
Aircraft Engineer
Plovdiv, Bulgaria





RE: Radial Pop-ups
set UGII_VIEW_POPUP_MENU_FILE=
As for the question about Dashed hidden edges, yes, just go to Preferences -> Visualization... and select the 'Visual' tab and in the 'General Display Settings' section go the item labeled 'Hidden Edge Style' and set the option to 'Dashed'.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
NX Design
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Cypress, CA
http://www.siemens.com/plm
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RE: Radial Pop-ups
EDIT UG_GATEWAY_VIEW_POPUP
MODIFY
BUTTON UG_VIEW_POPUP_REPLACE_TFRISO
POPUP_LOCATION 1
END_OF_MODIFY
Here is a quick example of overriding a radial popup. Haven't tried changing the icon yet, right now it is broken image. Create a file called something.men with the content of the file to be this:
VERSION 120
EDIT UG_GATEWAY_VIEW_POPUP
MODIFY
BUTTON/REPLACE UG_VIEW_POPUP_STUDIO
LABEL S&tudio
MESSAGE Renders faces (in the view where the cursor is positioned) realistically according to assigned basic materials, textures, and lights.
BITMAP image_on_sphere.bmp
POPUP_LABEL S&tudio
POPUP_MESSAGE Renders faces (in the view where the cursor is positioned) realistically according to assigned basic materials, textures, and lights.
ACTIONS STANDARD
END_OF_MODIFY
place this file into a startup folder that NX can see on startup.
-Dave Tolsma
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/
RE: Radial Pop-ups
Click and hold MB3 and then spiral your cursor off of the icons and around the "block" the icons make...you can still select them when you're not even touching an icon, even when you're at the screen extents.
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: Radial Pop-ups
Please explain further, it sounds like your modifying the "gesture" pop-up which is something i'd like to do.
I'd like to replace the studio gesture with say F8,
Your explaination seems to talk about modifying it but then doesn't ??
RE: Radial Pop-ups
What do you want to do with the popup menu? the F8 is something else. I'll take a look to see if and how it can be done.
-Dave Tolsma
Tolsnet LLC
http://groups.google.com/group/NX_CAX/
RE: Radial Pop-ups
RE: Radial Pop-ups
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: Radial Pop-ups
Regards: Dimo Urumov
Aircraft Engineer
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
RE: Radial Pop-ups
RE: Radial Pop-ups
To see what this looks like in the pop-up menu file, open the file and search for 'POPUP_LOCATION 1'. Now what you'll find first is the old Studio Display item which I've left in place, just commented out, however just below this you'll find the new section adding the Display Update function.
Anyway, good luck and let me know how it works for you.
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: Radial Pop-ups
Here's an interesting question, a collegue asked, can you get a different gesturing menu to pop up when holding down an initiation key, (as in MAYA) lets say Ctrl E , and have , extrude, revolve, sweep etc, or Alt S , and have , bounded plane, ruled, through curves, through curve mesh, and so on
What do you think ?
RE: Radial Pop-ups
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: Radial Pop-ups
That is great!
Sounds like something I've seen and may have mentioned before so I'm bound to be a supporter. Good on you for using a key sequence accessible from the space pilot, and Ctrl/Alt or Alt/Shift might also be available should they not conflict with anything else.
Best Regards
Hudson
RE: Radial Pop-ups
RE: Radial Pop-ups
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: Radial Pop-ups
RE: Radial Pop-ups
RE: Radial Pop-ups
As for making Regenerate easier to get to, it's generally considered a very 'heavy' solution, in that it takes a long time since it forces a complete re-computation of all display aspects including re-faceting of the entire model (unless you were already viewing faceted bodies) including objects not currently visible. That's why we tend to recommend either 'Refresh' or 'Update Display' since they are very fast. Granted, 'Refresh' only removes temporary objects, but 'Update Display' is sort of like a soft-regen in that if only recomputes the display of visible objects.
Now it is true that as systems get faster the impact of things like Regen's are reduced, but no matter how fast a CPU you have, a full 'Regenerate' will still be the slowest display cleanup command that you can execute.
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: Radial Pop-ups
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