Recent content by abeschneider

Thank you, John.

On NX5, is there a way to display the assembly constraints in effect for a given part in an assembly? Seems that all the constraints are lumped into a single folder in the tree, and when you have an assembly with many components, it gets difficult to audit the constraints for a specific member.

Jason, A while ago I asked a series of questions about parametric helix creation, and John Baker gave some really informative answers. You might be interested to check out the thread at: http://eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=164528

Just want to say, Instance Geometry is the bomb!

Is there any plan on the part of eng-tips management to fix whatever is wrong with the site search?

Tim, Thanks for your suggestions. It's not really a big deal but I thought it would be nice (and apparently NX uses mozilla on linux so I thought, why not on windows?)

hmm, that doesn't work so well. With quotes around the paths, nothing happens - firefox doesn't even load.

tim, the problem isn't getting firefox to launch, its that the url (ie the settings in castenv.bat) aren't being read properly by firefox. So, the UGII_CAST_BROWSER=C:\Progra~1\Mozill~1\firefox.exe works to launch ff, as does UGII_CAST_BROWSER=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe...

Firefox is default browser. So I just tried modifying castonly.bat by remarking out the line "set UGII_CAST_BROWSER=IE2" and replacing with: "set UGII_CAST_BROWSER=C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" This worked to cause CAST to launch firefox, but somehow the directory handling is...

Nothing stopped working; I want to figure out a way to have CAST & Docs use Firefox (or Opera). I don't necesarily mind what the browser is INSIDE of NX. Mainly, I already use Firefox for all my browsing so it'd be nice if, when I launch CAST or Docs, it just opens a new tab in the firefox...

NX5, WinXP Pro 32bit

Any ideas on how to select an alternate browser in Windows? I played with the environment variable but haven't gotten anything to work. Still uses IE for the browser.

Kevklem, it worked like a charm. Thank you.

Everytime I launch help from within NX, my Internet Explorer complains: "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access your computer. Click here for options..." I have to manually allow the content each...

Another approach, probably more useful for more complex animations, is to figure out how to control the on-screen position or orientation of the part with parameters; then export high-resolution screenshots as you change the parameter very slightly. Then you can use a video-editing software to...