How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
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So I'm not sure what happened, but in the past week sometime my default changed from "no selection" to "solid body", but only for "analysis>measure distance". We use the "measure distance" command quite a bit to check wall thicknesses of castings among other things.
I looked through the customer defaults and cannot find anything related to this. It's annoying because it defualts back to "solid body" after every selection/mouse click.
Is there a way to set it back to "face" (or no selection)? We usually don't use that command in assembly mode, so having it set to body is moot.
Measure angle still defaults to "no selection" if that helps.
thanks
I looked through the customer defaults and cannot find anything related to this. It's annoying because it defualts back to "solid body" after every selection/mouse click.
Is there a way to set it back to "face" (or no selection)? We usually don't use that command in assembly mode, so having it set to body is moot.
Measure angle still defaults to "no selection" if that helps.
thanks





RE: How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
Note that if a function can ONLY select a single type of object, such as an 'Edge' when creating an Edge Blend, the system will automatically switch to 'Edge' and back to the current setting when finished and this is not really under the control of Dialog Memory as there is nothing to memorize since in this case the function is in 100% control of the Type Filter.
Note that this is working as designed and there is nothing that you can do to stop this behavior during the course of a session of NX, however, you can 'reset' all the settings between sessions by disabling the 'Save Dialog Box Settings between Sessions' option in Customer Defaults, but doing so will reset ALL dialog setting for all items, including the parameter values last entered in modeling dialogs.
Now to help you manage this behavior, may I suggest that in the Selection Bar (the same place where the 'Type Filter' and 'Selection Scope' options are located) that you enable the 'Reset Filters' icon (it looks like a swooping clockwise arrow). Whenever the 'Type Filter' is set to anything other than 'No Selection Filter' (except when there is only ONE valid type, such as I mentioned with Edge Blend), selecting this icon will 'reset' the 'Type Filter' back to 'No Selection Filter'. This is much quicker than having to expand the 'Type Filter' list and return it back to the default 'No Selection Filter' setting manually.
Anyway, give this behavior a while to become appreciated. I think you will find that having these choices remembered does help in the long run to make the system more efficient and your use of it more productive, but it does require that you understand what and why it's happening and that you have ALL the tools at your disposal, such as the 'Reset' icon, to help you manage the behavior so that the net effect is positive and not something that is seen as either being unpredictable or a distraction.
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RE: How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
It's appreciated.
cheers
RE: How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
however, quite often our customers will ask us to give them a presentation representing gas flowing through one of our compressor designs. To show this, we'll usually pie-cut parasolids of the compressor and change the interior face colors of the exhaust to red and intake to blue. This is a very tedious task and can take quite a while to select everything.
My co-workers and I were wondering if it was possible to add "tangent faces" to the face selection dialog. If it's not possible, do you plan on adding it in future releases? It would be very helpful.
thanks
RE: How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
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: How to set default selection filters (nx5)?
If it gave a "tanget face" option, for the most part, I would only have to click one face and it should auto select anything tangent to that face.
I'm not sure if that was very clear, but I can upload a screenshot if need be. Having that dialog added to object display (and others I'm sure) would be tremendously helpful