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    Upgrading from NX2 to NX3

    Scotty - Weigh your options heavily - refiling all parts could potentially cause issues, albeit not many but could still get you caught - no possible chance to backout of an upgrade etc... I have refiled and I have left them alone, there is a pro & con to both. A s for Assembly size, we...
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    Does anyone think Catia V5 is any good?

    Sorry - I am weighing in on this. I ahve used V4 & now V5, Unigraphics, Pro Engineer, Solid Edge, CV & Anvil (For us older guys) and boy do the programs vary. However, the CATIA side of business - obviously, V5 is more powerful and easier to navigate, more windowsy (Yuk - Literal dication to...
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    Unigraphics to CATIA V5 Translation

    Tim, THe new translator that UGS has implemented is for V4 - V5 issues are still being worked out. This is a plug-in (UGS did not write it) and although you can read .model files, any catexp,catdata, etc will not work. As for CATIA - Dessault offers a nifty UG importer from native format -...
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    Opening catia v4 files in UG NX direct translator ??

    It sounds like you are referring to the Theorem Solutions Direct translators (http://www.theorem.co.uk/). These are very good, yet expensive, translators.
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    Grips for UGv18

    If I understand your request, you are looking for a GRIP to display the coordinates of your WCS. Here is a GRIP to report selected points absolute and wcs coordinates: ENTITY/ pt, old_wcs DELIM/' ' MASK/ 2 A10: IDENT/'Select point', pt, resp IFTHEN/ resp >...

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