Show and hide. Separate buttons
Show and hide. Separate buttons
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Hi all,
In the menu Show and hide i use most of the time only sketch, assembly constrains and coordinate systems.
Is there a way to make separate buttons in an toolbar to show and hide directly all sketches or the assembly constrains? I don't like it to open the menu first every time.
I've searched for it but i can't find single commands for it.
Thanks in advance,
Tjeerd
In the menu Show and hide i use most of the time only sketch, assembly constrains and coordinate systems.
Is there a way to make separate buttons in an toolbar to show and hide directly all sketches or the assembly constrains? I don't like it to open the menu first every time.
I've searched for it but i can't find single commands for it.
Thanks in advance,
Tjeerd
Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)





RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
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Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
Please don't tell me we will now have to hunt for them in some stinking ribbon menu..! Bah humbug..
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RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
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RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
But the disadvantage of making journals is that I get two buttons, one to turn sketches off, and one to turn sketches on again.
There is no way to have one button to turn it off and on again?
From Capnhook i understand that he has it working, but that i can't ask how it works.
Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
CODE
www.nxjournaling.com
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
I've never used code like this, so i don't know what to do with it. If it's simple i will give it a try.
Can i put this code in a journal file and create a button that runs that journal file?
(Till now i only made a few macro's and an toolbar .tbr file)
Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
Open a plain text editor, such as notepad, copy and paste the code into the editor. Save the file with a meaningful name and change the extension from .txt to .vb. You now have a journal file that you can use in NX. You can then add a custom button to run the journal.
www.nxjournaling.com
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
So it's a similar way like a macro. Then the rest should be easy.
Gonna test this tomorrow.
Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community..
To the Toolmaker, your nice little cartoon drawing of your glass looks cool, but your solid model sucks. Do you want me to fix it, or are you going to take all week to get it back to me so I can get some work done?
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
So I think I keep using Ctrl+W again.
Thanks for all the help.
Using NX 8.0 on Windows 7 (64)
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
Proud Member of the Reality-Based Community..
To the Toolmaker, your nice little cartoon drawing of your glass looks cool, but your solid model sucks. Do you want me to fix it, or are you going to take all week to get it back to me so I can get some work done?
RE: Show and hide. Separate buttons
Excellent, since that is excatly how this is SUPPOSED to work in NX!
Having individual 'icons' which would toggle ON/OFF (Show/Hide) ONE SINGLE type of object would only save you a couple of gestures (keyboard entries) while wasting space by requiring you to have icons for each object type that you might possibly want to toggle ON/OFF. Besides, there would be NO way of knowing whether any objects of the type that you were interested in are even in your part file so pushing one or more of this multitude of icons may NOT do anything at all. However, when you use the 'Ctrl+W' approach, the dialog that comes-up will show ONLY those classes of objects which actually exist in your part file so you'll know EXACTLY what objects types are available for having their display status changed.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.