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





RE: Setting Sketch colors? NX3/4 (also setiing default UI's)
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
http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Setting Sketch colors? NX3/4 (also setiing default UI's)
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.
RE: Setting Sketch colors? NX3/4 (also setiing default UI's)
thanks
-Steve