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True Shading NX6

True Shading NX6

True Shading NX6

(OP)
Whenever True Shading is toggled on, the following are all ON by default : Show Shadows, Show Floor Reflection, Show Floor Grid, Perspective.

Is there any way to override this behaviour, customer defaults perhaps ?

I'd personally like them all to be OFF by default.  

Specialty Engineered Automation (SEA)
http://www.sea4ug.com
a UGS Foundation Partner

RE: True Shading NX6

No, there are no Customer Default settings at the moment.

Note that the settings and option which you mentioned are all Part Specific, which means that once set and the part file saved, even if you were no in the True Shade mode when you saved the file, the settings would still be saved and the next time you enter True Shape mode it would honor your last settings.  So to get the behavior that you wish, having the defaults already set with certain options ON while others are OFF, you best approach would be to take your template parts and open them up, go into True Shade, set-up the options the way you wish and hit OK, then leave the True Shade mode back to what you normally start modeling in, and then save your templates.  That way, the next time you start a new model, the system will use a template with the settings already set as like them to be.  For all intents and purposes, it's as if there were customer defaults which are controlling the initial settings.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
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: True Shading NX6

(OP)
John,

Yes, that works for new files, but I'm more interested in a solution when opening legacy files. Along with not having to endure perspective whenever True Shading is turned on.

Specialty Engineered Automation (SEA)
http://www.sea4ug.com
a UGS Foundation Partner

RE: True Shading NX6

Why do you say "endure perspective"?  I work in perspective 100% of the time and have ever since we provided that option.  Even a one-eyed man sees the world around him in perspective.  If it were up to me, perspective would be the OOTB default for everywhere except when working on a Drawing with orthographic projections.

As for working with legacy files, just open the Part, enter True Shading, set your options, then leave and save the file.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
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: True Shading NX6

(OP)
John,

"As for working with legacy files, just open the Part, enter True Shading, set your options, then leave and save the file" ... So for 'every' part file I open, I have to go and turn off 3 options ?

As for pesrpective, it is an OOTB default. That's my complaint. If you're generally working on smallish components, it's just annoying. Create a 100x100x100 Block, and go to a Top view. You'd think it had a draft angle applied to the sides. I don't want, or need perspective.

Specialty Engineered Automation (SEA)
http://www.sea4ug.com
a UGS Foundation Partner

RE: True Shading NX6

Gee, they DID listen to me winky smile

I honestly was not aware of that since I've been using my own customized 'template' files, in one form or another, for 20 years or so and ever since we implemented a decent perspective, I've set-up my template files with it ON.  One thing you can do if you think that the perspective 'distortion' is too great is to just do a 'Fit' since that will reset the front and back clipping planes as well as the eye-point distance.  The view will still be in perspective, but it will look much more reasonable.  The primary reason why I use it and why we implemented it (besides making sure that photo-realistic images actually were...photo-relistic that is since there is nothing more weird looking than to see some really well textured, well lite, well arranged scene of some piece of equipment that was rendered in a parallel, non-perspective, view) is because your brain is VERY GOOD at sorting out the spatial relationships of an image IF it's viewed in perspective which is the way the brain is expecting is the way it's looking at something.  Granted, shading helps, but you can still get you model to be looking inside-out or flip back-and-forth if seen in a non-perspective view.

To see what I mean, stare at this image for a while and tell me that it doesn't make your eyes hurt trying to keep it from 'flipping':



As for updating the legacy files, this behavior is the same for all Part Specific settings.  What you can do though is capture the turning-off of the 3 True Shade options with a Journal file and you can even, at least temporarily, assign it to it's own icon on a toolbar, so that all you have to do is open the part file, select the icon and then save your part (you could even include the save and close in the Journal).

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
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: True Shading NX6

(OP)
Okay, John, I'll give you that one smile

Specialty Engineered Automation (SEA)
http://www.sea4ug.com
a UGS Foundation Partner

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