3DConnexion Space Mouse
3DConnexion Space Mouse
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I work with both SolidWorks and NX. When I have a part open in SW, my space mouse always rotates about the center of part unless I assign a new rotate point. NX doesn't have that option and I have to assign the rotate point. If I close the model and re-open, I have to re-assign the rotate point. Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks.
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RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
However, if you don't want to explicitly assign a 'rotate' point perhaps you may want to try this; next time you wish to rotate about a specific point on your model, but you don't want to take the time or the extra steps to assign an actual 'rotate' point, what you do instead is place your cursor over that part of the model, say an edge, face or vertex, where you would like the 'rotate' point to be. Now press down and HOLD MB2 (Middle Mouse Button). While you're holding down MB2 you will note that a temporary 'rotate' point is displayed and as long as you HOLD down MB2, the Spaceball will use this point as the center of rotation.
I know this may not be exactly what you're looking for but it does make it very easy to at least temporarily leverage the idea of there being a fixed 'rotate' point without having to stop and create one, and besides it allows you to quickly designate DIFFERENT 'rotate' points on-the-fly as they are needed and when they are needed.
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RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
Isn't NX a high end software and SolidWorks a low end? Why would SW have a simple check box to rotate about center and NX has a couple of work arounds?
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RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
Besides, the behavior of your Spaceball is NOT what differentiates a high-end CAD package from any other package. It goes a LOT DEEPER than that.
John R. Baker, P.E.
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RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
Sketching
Adding constraints to sketches (hold CTR and select two lines, icon then shows what constraints are possible)
Creating work planes
Projecting surfaces
Dims to surfaces
Normal to icon
Assembly constraints......
Sorry, just not seeing it yet. I've been on NX for almost a year and I have over 10 years on SW (and I teach SW at the local tech college at night) but I will keep asking for help. I see some of the everyday tasks/ commands I use in SW and I wish NX would incorporate them.
I do understand that NX has high end features but everyday things could be made/ done much easier.
Thanks again.
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
While you didn't provide a lot of details about what I assume are SW functions, I suspect that what we have here is a matter of semantics more than anything else. For example, you mention using the ALT key to create sketch constraints on selected curves. In NX you use MB3.
BTW, have you done any 5-axis machining using SW's multi-axis CAM module complete with full machine tool simulation of the post-processed toolpath? Or how about solving a combined Heat Transfer/CFD problem for an electronics packaging application?
As I said, it goes a LOT DEEPER...
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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http://www.siemens.com/plm
http://www.plmworld.org/museum/
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RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
My point is fix all the small things for everyday conviences. SW shouldn't have better solutions on rotating a part with a space mouse.
I'm using NX 7.5 with ANCA Grinding
I also use 5 axis SW/ CAMWorks for programming the mills. Space mouse works great in CAMWorks.
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
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: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
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: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
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: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
All in all, all software have something you wish the other had. I know the more I work with NX, the more I will enjoy it. Just kinda frustrating knowing something that should be a simple toggle on/ off isn't there.
I look forward to some of the more advanced features in NX over the next few years.
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
RE: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
Please, ALWAYS include the current version of NX which you are running!
I highly recommend that you create a signature and include that information there if you don't want to explicitly enter it each time you post something. Unless you're running the latest version of the software, which is currently NX 7.5.2.x, you're not seeing all that we have done in our product. I realize that some things will always be less then perhaps what you would like, that's just the way things are, but we do appreciate comments and feedback and trust me, I do pass along, sometimes with even more passion than what is displayed here on a broad class of issue, both major AND minor, to development and my management. However, we are constrained in the resources that we have and the time that we have to accomplish what we have already committed ourselves to do, so please understand that there will always be the appearance that we are either not doing everything that is expected or that we are ignoring that which has been asked of us. It's a simple fact of business.
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: 3DConnexion Space Mouse
NX 7.5